my proposal put a price on carbon, a carbon tax. it makes fossil fuel related energy sources much more expensive, and that will cause people to use them less. it was used to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 92% by 2040. we take the money raised by the carbon fee and give it back to the american people in a dividend. it goes out one pocket in terms of fossil fuel energy and it goes right back in the pocket of the american people. this was introduced by me on a bipartisan basis. i believe i can get it passed my first year as president with a coalition of every democrat in congress and with the republicans who live in coastal states. that is the coalition we need to get something big done on climate right away. this proposal i have is big and it is actionable. i believe i can get it done in my first year. the second thing is to take the renewable tax credit and expand them, because they have worked and helped make renewable energy more competitive. the third thing we have to do is have a fivefold increase in the department of energy res

my proposal put a price on carbon, a carbon tax. it makes fossil fuel related energy sources much more causeive, and that will people to use them less. it was used to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. we take the money raised by the carbon fee and give it back to the american people in a dividend. it goes out one talking in terms ofmaking -- pocket in terms fossil fuel energy and back in the pocket of the american people. this was introduced by me on a bipartisan basis. i believe i can get it passed my first year as president with a coalition of every democrat in congress and with the republicans who live in coastal states. that is the coalition we need to get something big done on climate right away. this proposal i have is big and it is actionable. i believe i can get it done in my first year. the second thing is to take the renewable tax credit and expand them, because they have worked and help make renewable energy more competitive. the third thing we have to do is have a fivefold increase in the department of energy resourc

we are going to sequester carbon. er carbon. the farmers o have like brown and allen williams and others, who are making money agriculture.rative they are the only ones actual making money now. farmers haven't a profit in five years. and brown, up in north dakota, regenrethe leader in the active movement. he's not even taking crop subsidies. imagine us moving to a political solution with democrats, republicans, and libertarians and independent take on the ould industrial farming monopolies. we can build out a system public-private partnerships, to teaching farmers how to grow, maybe assistance as out of the ion industrial agriculture business ag the regenerative business. we're going to reduce algae blooms. we're going to rehabilitate the nitrogen get all the out of the rivers. we're going to be able to fishing industry around the different areas of the united states. we're going to grow more food.nable i think we should also create these farms by ncouraging prisons, schools, universetis, to buy fresh, local foods. o you're not

deadlines.or earlier net zero carbon emissions technology like carbon capture, which is when you allow gas and coal to be burned but you trap the emissions to make sure they don't affect the climate and you store it underground. he called her 500,000 more electric vehicle charging stations to help get people to a charger. we don't have enough in this country. he has tried to bring back some the obama regulations he worked on and wants to plus up what he was doing there. host: what is the president's pitch heading into 2020 on energy and the environment? guest: he is trying to find his best way to talk about this. you see him up on the debate stage saying competing with the others who have put out aggressive plans. we need to work on this and work on phasing out coal and oil and gas and have a conversation about it. he said he would eliminate fracking that there is not clear way to do that. host: president trump? guest: no, joe biden. host: what is president trump's pitch? host: he wants to do more the same -- guest: he wants to do more of the same. he said the wealth of the nation's ce

as part of our process you would know calcium carbonate as seashells the c o 2 was burnt sometime in the 18th century or maybe on your flight over from your up and we captured it and we come but it's into these pallets da mr turner air into fuel a synthetic fuel for all combustion engines 10 years ago jeffrey holmes co-founded the project a kind of recycling plant for c o 2. what we do differently as opposed to taking fuels refined from crude oil and burning them which puts carbon dioxide in the atmosphere we take the carbon from the atmosphere we take hydrogen from water and we recombine them into fuel that way when the fuels burned the carbon is released back to the atmosphere where it came from and we have a close cycle jordan sturdy would only be too happy to use c o 2 neutral fuel for his quad and his tractors it would mean the massive investment and paid off and another piece in the global puzzle of solving the climate crisis would be firmly in place. millions of syrians have fled their country many to sudan where they have visa free entry some are opening successful small busi

we are seeing more proposals around carbon fees some kind of carbon pricing.n caucus the roosevelt caucus forming to try to find moderate solutions around climate change. i think the aggressive nature of the green new deal has pulled some of the republicans back into things because i think they can see that polling shows there is widespread support for some kind of climate action. they see the you today have a youth problem that young people overwhelmingly support climate change actions and they realize they are now needing to do something. the green new deal gives him a little more space to come up with proposals. what they can say are more realistic and implementable and we are starting to see lots more proposals Ãwho had his own green new deal proposal. i think it's very interesting side effect of the green new deal discussion. >> i think Ãis the swedish word for flying shame. flight shame. it's actually a phenomenon. and it's a good thing i think. there are places in europe you can get to via trains. men are not easily accessible by flights. you're startin

carbon offsetting is the idea that if you omit by tonnes of carbon whilst flying you would do somethingo on and so forth. so obviously how much carbon you emit depends on the length of the flight and if you took a private jet which length of the flight and if you took a privatejet which i'm sure length of the flight and if you took a private jet which i'm sure all of your viewers do on a regular basis! but what we need to think about is two things. first of all, offsetting is better than nothing. but it is very, very remote from where we need to be. we need to be planting trees anyway. we need to be investing in renewable energy anyway. these things are not a replacement for the systemic changes that the airline industry needs to be doing right now. i can see you nodding away. it isa now. i can see you nodding away. it is a good thing, but it is by no means a solution. we need a variety of actions across a variety of areas. we need to reduce and avoid what we can. in terms of air flights, people should always think twice about whether they need to ta ke twice about whether they need to

host: what is a carbon tax?st: an economy wide caused of admitting carbon pollution into it -- emitting carbon pollution into the atmosphere. a challenges there is no cost associated with emitting carbon in the atmosphere and people do it without regard to the climate. reduce that by regulating and imposing limits on what power plants we can have or what cars we can drive or lightbulb's weekend purchase. -- we can purchase. ideally we put a price on it and if you want to emit carbon you wee to pay through a tax should assign a value to that and put a tax on that activity and use the revenue to reduce other taxes. we are not supportive of increasing tax revenue. we think we are at a point in the physical condition of the country we need to have a really open and honest conversation about the monetary condition and how we should reform the tax code. . do not like taxes i personally dislike paying my taxes like most people do. the government does collect $3.5 trillion in taxes every year and spent $4.5 trillion whi

as part of our process you would know calcium carbonate as seashells the c o 2 was burnt sometime in the 18th century or maybe on your flight over from your up and we captured it and we converted it into these pallets da mr turner air into fuel a synthetic fuel for all combustion engines 10 years ago geoffrey holmes co-founded the project a kind of recycling plant for c o 2. what we do differently as opposed to taking fuels refined from crude oil and burning them which puts carbon dioxide in the atmosphere we take the carbon from the atmosphere we take hydrogen from water and we recombine them into fuel that way when the fuels burn the carbon is released back to the atmosphere where it came from and we have a close cycle jones. business with it. in the amazon if something is going to reach people it comes to close. to the vocational school and. brazil's only training should offer. as many courses to do. and a chance for young people imaginative. to make the handsomest comes from watching. the world 3030 miles on a dock to. cause war. birth. home to have special needs. a whole worth s

as part of our process you would know calcium carbonate as seashells the c o 2 was burnt sometime in the 18th century or maybe on your flight over from your up and we captured it and we converted it into these pallets da mr turner air into fuel a synthetic fuel for all combustion engines 10 years ago jeffrey holmes co-founded the project a kind of recycling plant for c o 2. what we do differently as opposed to taking fuels refined from crude oil and burning them which puts carbon dioxide in the atmosphere we take the carbon from the atmosphere we take hydrogen from water and we recombine them into fuel that way when the fuels burn the carbon is released back to the atmosphere where it came from and we have a close cycle. business with it. with. some special. for all true fans who. place blame me blame cut more than football long line you know that 77 percent clapping are younger than 6 o'clock. that's me and me and you. think you know what it's time to call voices. on the 77 percent talk about the issues. from politics to classes from housing boom boom time this is where. welcome to

the killing took place anything postin is illegal to trade what it comes down to is this this radio carbon dating method can tell us if trade of ivory is legal or not kevin you know is a geochemist who uses a method known as radiocarbon dating to determine the age of ivory this is the part of the tusk that was actually growing when the animal was shot because we need to know when did this elephant die and so this part of the tusk tells us that so we drove the powder on to this wave paper here. and we collect it into these vials next to ivory powder is combusted and turned into pure c o 2 so what is this we can bust it in this tube it there's other impurities in there other gases we need to get rid of those so that when we measure the radio carbon content we just are measuring the c o 2 gas radiocarbon dating literally relies on the fallout from the events that took place from 1952 to 1963. 1 fire. above ground atomic testing between the united states in the soviet union we basically doubled the radio carbon concentration in the atmosphere and what does that mean then for organisms when you

despite the clear dangers of carbon monoxide, many people remain unaware of the need for carbon monoxidedetectors. this bill aims to change that. it will assist states in delivering public education on the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning while simultaneously providing grants to purchase and install detectors in the homes of elderly, low income citizens, and schools. in conclusion, i and the international association of firefighters express our support for these three important public safety bills, and i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. thank you. >> thank you. i think of first responders that we think all firefighters are heroes as well. thank you. mr. samuels, you are recognized for five minutes. >> chair, ranking member, and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the invitation to testify about the cpsc fast track recalled program. i'm chuck samuels. i've practiced cpsc law for 35 years. the work of this small agency is critical to the safety of americans. the vast majority of industry rightfully considers product safety a preeminent value. companies design and bu

, reduce our overall carbon emissions, reduce our overall carbon emissions, reduce our reliance on fossilhem, so we can keep the carbon in the ground. we are also able with the political will to do so, to start trying carbon directly out of the other civil stop and sequestering it and storing it in the biosphere. carly phillips, thank you very much for that assessment. more than 600 people have been arrested in moscow during an unauthorised rally, protesting against opposition candidates being barred from standing in local elections. it's the second weekend of mass demonstrations, with the opposition leader lyubov sobol, being arrested even before she reached the rally. here's our correpsondent sarah rainsford. lyubov sobol is now being detained by police, being dragged away by two riot police and another two officers. she's demanding to know the basis for her arrest. but they're dragging her away towards a minibus. a minibus which hasjust driven up. so that's it. lyubov sobol had just stepped out of her headquarters here, she was heading to join the protest and riot police moved straight

they are already lowering the carbon intensity of their economy, reducing the amount of carbon dioxide per unit of gdp that the economy produces. in 2009 they pledged that they would try to do this to the tune 25%, 30%. they have already achieved and surpassed that target and will do more. these other countries are working really hard to achieve these targets and the u.s. is the only country in the world pulling back at a national level and not participating in the process. -- host: sharon, good morning. morning.es, good mr. light, i would like to address something i see everywhere. i'm not technically savvy about this, but everywhere that i go i see individuals sitting in sometimes 15,s, 20, 25 minutes, elders scouring receipts. younger people who actually live in their vehicles, eat in them, text in them, music, whatever. even these temperate seasons, some even with the windows down are running the motors, running ac with the windows down. this is crazy. i asked the driver's ed instructor do you ever address idling and he seemed to imply no, we really don't. because parents, deniers

the forests sequester carbon.ife, they pull carbon out of the atmosphere. so when we burn the trees, it releases most of the carbon back into the atmosphere in one fell swoop. so what we're seeing now and over the last few years and decades is an increase in the number of acres, square kilometres, burned by fires and seeing this intense increase in carbon dioxide being released back into the atmosphere all at once. so would you describe these fires as an ecological catastrophe, as we've heard others describe it? well, the trend is certainly very troubling. you know, fires in the forest, they are natural. but they are increasing, and were at a point in the earth's climate system, where perhaps small incremental increases in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may send us over a tipping point. so every ton of carbon that's released by these forest fires puts us that much closer to a point of no return. so does that mean because of these fires we might see an increase in warming in the globe? exactly. we call this a pos

they are already lowering the carbon intensity of their economy, reducing the amount of carbon dioxidenit of gdp that the economy produces. in 2009 they pledged that they would try to do this to the tune 25%, 30%. they have already achieved and surpassed that target and will do more. these other countries are working really hard to achieve these targets and the u.s. is the only country in the world pulling back at a national level and not participating in the process. -- host: sharon, good morning. morning.es, good mr. light, i would like to address something i see everywhere. i'm not technically savvy about this, but everywhere that i go i see individuals sitting in sometimes 15,s, 20, 25 minutes, elders scouring receipts. younger people who actually live in their vehicles, eat in them, text in them, music, whatever. even these temperate seasons, some even with the windows down are running the motors, running ac with the windows down. this is crazy. i asked the driver's ed instructor do you ever address idling and he seemed to imply no, we really don't. because parents, deniers might

to a carbon—absorbing economy.e for mankind or just so much hot air? tim flannery, welcome to hardtalk. we've seen this year, certainly in europe, some of the most extraordinary temperatures and weather events that we've experienced. in some parts of western europe, a second heatwave in only a matter of a month. belgium and the netherlands and germany recording their highest ever temperatures. globally, the un world meteorological organisation says the last four years have been the hottest known to man and yet antonio gutteres, the un secretary—general says the paradox is that as things are getting worse on the ground, political will seems to be fading. why? i think that there are big problems in our political system. we've seen a rise of populists who are very policy—light and very nationalist—heavy. and for some reason, they are winning elections. i personally don't understand it. i think at this moment we need strong leadership to deal with these issues. instead we seem to be getting the weakest leadership would

much environmental benefit from the carbon tax. if you look at a number of places in europe that have either proposed a trade system or carbon fees, those policies have been wildly unpopular as well because they are not deriving the climate benefits they were promised. you saw the yellow vest protests in paris for a reason. people are upset with paying more and more for energy and more and more for goods and services that they pay for and not seeing any change in the climate. that is why these policies in the united states and around the world are very unpopular. people care about climate change and are increasingly caring about climate change, but on the list of policy priorities it falls near the bottom and it has for decades. energyhe economics of and environmental policy is our topic with nicolas loris of the heritage foundation taking your phone calls. phone lines as usual republicans, democrats, , independents. bob is a republican out of victoria, texas. good morning. caller: good morning, gentlemen. i would like to say clima

if we grow a new clean economy and in the next 30 years ago from carbon emitting to a carbon absorbinghe economy and hopefully head off the worst of the climate crisis. between 1980 and 2000 according to the intergovernmental science policy plus hormone biodiversity and ecosystem services back in may this year which published its report under the it is of the un, 100 million hectares of tropical forest we re million hectares of tropical forest were lost mainly in cattle ranch in south american, palm oil plantations in southeast asia contributed to the decline. international trade has increased since 1970 to feed, clothe and give energy to this burgeoning row world, forests have been cleared especially in tropical asia. isn't that tension part of the problem? you may have this desirable ambition for a global economy but we start with the one we've got and we are trying to deal with the effects of climate change. the reality is in this world we will need to use the existing economy to build a new one. every time you build a wind turbine manufacturer solar panel, you're going to use dirty

host: explain how the urban tax works. -- carbon tax works. guest: eventually it would impose a fee on each ton of carbon dioxide emitted, primarily targeting the energy industry as well as the agriculture industry if you account for methane emissions and the emissions coming from the natural gas industry as well. essentially the goal of a carbon tax is to price that allegedly externality of co2 and internalize those emissions. the problem with taxing co2 is that you are not internalizing a pollutant like he would smog -- you who would smog or have known risks. you are trying to mitigate warming. a carbon tax but really result in a huge tax on the energy industry, a huge tax on american consumers and businesses, but not internalize. host: what other countries have imposed a carbon tax? guest: canada tried. it floundered a little bit mostly because they have been a number of giveaways to actually not changed very much behavior. australia has tinkered with it a little bit. they have gone back from it to put -- implement and get because it was un

how does carbon monoxide get into the copy of a plane?ht aeroplane with an ordinary engine like a car engine, it is killed by the air, this was january so they would have needed the cabin heater on. it gets its airona needed the cabin heater on. it gets its air on a heated exchange, it ta kes its air on a heated exchange, it takes its heat from the engine. —— cooled by the air. if the engine exhaust is looking in anyway, it should not be because this risk as well as known and maintenance checks should make sure it does not happen, but as the investigation has reminded pilots of light aircraft, this risk is always there and we should be aware of it. the recommended have warning systems on—board which are not compulsory. it can get warning systems yourself. this could be the reason why the but aircraft went out of control and crashed. so the advices have one of these warning systems in your plane because of this problem with the heater and carbon monoxide but it is not compulsory? no, it is not. even on civil airliners, which you believe, t

and also to store more carbon but just how difficult would that be to achieve and how long might it take and it's a big challenge because it is not only restoring ecosystems that we need to do in order for them to become a net sink of emissions when sense we always need to look at how we can support no good communities and indigenous peoples to get the land tribes for the land they live on and then work on so that they become stewards of the land in order which made it much more make them able to adapt to a changing climate and of course the it all depends on the willingness of governments to actually do that and someone in some cases especially in developing countries is also depends on the support that they are getting from the rich countries who are obliged to provide that support and the paris agreements of of they are failing to do this on adequate levels but if they would step up that and say ok we would like to support your food systems to adapt to climate change we want to do that in a sustainable way and we want to provide money that we have promised on the premise agreement we'

the atlantic ocean for at least the next 2 weeks despite all the technology designed to make this a carbon neutral journey there is little luxury and even less previous ie this teenager who has become a beacon for so many young climate crisis activists now prepared to brave the challenges of the open ocean in the hope that her message will be heard and understood right it didn't trip across the atlantic is expected to take 2 weeks she aims to be in new york for the next month's un climate action summit but the crossing won't be easy organist is peak hurricane season off to new york the book says she'll travel by train and bus to canada and mexico she also plans to attend the annual un climate conference in santiago chile in december and talk bird is doing this despite the criticism and the vitriol she has experience from climate change deniers i'm not concerned about what's reactions what i'm concerned about is whether we we will do something or not whether the people in power will react and act with the necessary force it's taken the determination of 116 year old schoolgirl to spark call

we appear to have blood evidence of a fatal level of carbon monoxide. highly unlikely that the atmosphere he was breathing with any different to that of the pilot. so, it sounds like they hide a mechanical flight —— pilot. so, it sounds like they hide a mechanicalflight —— thought in the engine, that put carbon monoxide in the cabin. that clearly is going to impede severely the pilot's ability to safely fly the aeroplane. and there would have been no warnings presumably? carbon monoxide you cannot smell or taste. if you are very aware, you you cannot smell or taste. if you are very aware, you might be aware of the symptoms it's causing. it is a known risk in single engine aeroplanes that they can be caused by for example, a crack in the exhaust. for which reason, by for example, a crack in the exhaust. forwhich reason, most aeroplanes in this class will carry aeroplanes in this class will carry a carbon monoxide detector in the cop —— cockpit because you're unlikely to wear yourself. most but not all? is no regulation requiring it. it's widely regarded

store carbon bank at that slows down the pace of global warming so you have this very dire a set of warnings and recommendations in the i.p.c.c. and then you have the reality on the ground i mean how do you reconcile that and do you think that there is political will power at this time in the world to really tackle this in a meaningful way. well there is some but maybe not always in the right places so it's up to governments to come to the september the climate summit in new york on the invitation of the un secretary general and come up with increased targets for reducing emissions because currently we have a criminal in adequate targets for all around so hardly any countries doing enough to confront the climate crisis so that's of course the 1st start of course you need to look into different countries situations what is causing emissions and countries like brazil but also other forest countries a country forest cover might want to look into options can we commit to cut deforestation to 0 what are the options for doing that and if you're ridges got a little bit moving away from ind

store carbon bank at that slows down the pace of global warming so you have this very dire a set of warnings and recommendations in the i.p.c.c. and then you have the reality on the ground i mean how do you reconcile that and do you think that there is political will power at this time in the world to really tackle this in a meaningful way. well there is some but maybe not always in the right places so it's up to governments to come to the september the climate summit in new york on the invitation of the un secretary general and come up with increased targets for reducing emissions because currently we have a criminal in adequate targets for all around so hardly any countries doing enough to confront the climate crisis so that of course the 1st starts in of course you need to look into different countries situations what is causing emissions and countries like brazil but also other forest countries and countries forest cover might want to look into options that can be committed to cut deforestation to 0 what are the options for doing that and if you're ridges got a little bit moving

the carbon content is generally much higher in these soils.p if we are seeing a lot of carbon being released into the atmosphere, can we estimate what effect it is going to have on climate change? sure. we can't estimate the exact effect it will have, but we know that increasing the concentration of heat trapping gases in the atmosphere is going to continue to warm our climate and so we know that this contribution from these fires is just going to further that trend.“ there a way to reverse or counter what we are seeing? there are ways to counter it, i think is the best way to save. what we can do is we can reduce our overall carbon emissions, reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. when it emissions, reduce our reliance on fossilfuels. when it comes emissions, reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. when it comes to these fires in particular we can put more resources towards fighting them so we can keep that carbon in the ground. and we are also able, with the political will, to do so, to start drawing cover directly out of the atmosphere and seque

dioxide 45% more carbon in the atmosphere just now when human civilization first developed. climate change is just one of the ways that our presence on earth i iprofoundlyly altering e planet. we will be series, exploring how to counter some of the greatest threats to survival, including pollution, loss of habitat, drought, and overconsumption.

sink, a place that absorbs carbon, which today is putting carbon, excess carbon into the air becauserning. >> that's right. not only that you have thousands, millions of years of carbon scored in that system and it is producing a fifth of our clean water and the oxygen on our planet so when you destroy the system you are doing decades and decades or centuries of damage. >> and the industrial work to redo that, to take carbon out of the atmosphere and clean water and clean earth, that would be huge. >> we don't have the technology or capability for that. right now nature does that. that's why the whole thing is that we need to re-assess our entire relationship with nature. everyone keeps messaging me going how do we put out the fires? you can't. even if you could, this is a systemic problem. this is decades and decades of deforestation that we've allowed to happen. this is apathy. we understand biology and how interconnected all these systems are. >> all right. so decades and decades of deforestation and bad policy that seems, professor, to have been exacerbated recently in brazil wit

what we can tell you very is that carbon dioxide is going up very quickly.'ve been to the top where you are measuring carbon dioxide concentrations. years,span of over 50 and you can see every single year, it never goes down, he goes up. that, we know it's because we are burning fossil fuels. how much are we interpreting versus other things? that is the most important. here are the most important things. the only piece of this we can actually control is what we do. way oft really have a controlling volcanoes, we don't really have a way of controlling other factors that might be adding methane or carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. we can control what we do. and here is what i will tell you. carbon dioxide levels today, greenhouse gases in the atmosphere levels today are higher than ever in human history. so, we are living on a planet partsell over or hundred per million in the atmosphere which has not evidence need as long as humans have been around. i don't need as long as america or civilization, i mean humans. this kind of atmospheric level existed, there w

, is that not the kind of market forces behind the notion of a carbon tax that if you use more carbons not taxed in that way. and that helps keep air travel artificially cheap. what eltonjohn has done is he has offset the emissions from the flight and this is an idea that has been around for a while but i‘m fed the evidence is not good that it works. i believe elton john evidence is not good that it works. i believe eltonjohn did this in good faith, he probably thinks he has neutralised the emissions from the flight but actually in practice these schemes do not deliver carbon savings which they claim to. and in principle we have a problem here as well because we are heading globally for a zero emissions economy and once you start to get to 2048 where are these extra carbon cuts going to come from to allow people to take these kind of journeys. come from to allow people to take these kind ofjourneys. and come from to allow people to take these kind of journeys. and just to clarify is that people using private jets like this who are the most egregious emitters of carbon and who sit in t

but there are also no carbon emissions.ctricity will be generated by solar panels and turbines. if we're honest, one person giving up flying doesn't make any difference in a world of eight billion people. so what is the point? i mean, the point, ithink, is to sort of create an opinion. if i stop flying you don't only reduce your own carbon footprint but also that sends a signal to other people around you that, i mean, the climate crisis is a real thing and that also pushes a political movement. but it's been a year since the 16—year—old began her climate strikes and carbon emissions have continued to rise. she plans to encourage world leaders to take more urgent action in new york. and despite the privations, she is looking forward to the trip. i think it will feel good in a way to be just alone with those on the boat and the ocean. the voyage will take two weeks. greta's team say they haven't yet planned how she's going to get back from america. justin rowlatt, bbc news, plymouth. and you can get in touch with me and most