when a company says it is carbon neutral, it effectively aims to add no further carbon to the atmospherecan do that by balancing emissions, by removing carbon from the atmosphere, or it can avoid making emissions in the first place, perhaps by switching to renewable energy. mostly, companies focus on offsetting their emissions by investing in green projects around the world. microsoft wants to go further — it wants to be carbon negative, removing more carbon from the atmosphere than it produces. we need better technology, direct air ca ptu re, need better technology, direct air capture, for example, runs the entryway machine, and the machine removes the carbon from the air, it then sequesters the cabin under the out. how might a horse it might start by planting a lot of trees, although it will need lots of them. —— how might microsoft achieve its goal? it might also remove carbon dioxide from the air, although technology like that is still in development and it is far from refined. i am sceptical, because we probably don't have the resources available to construct a wind farm on that sca

and by 2050, it hopes to have wiped out its carbon footprint altogether, by removing all the carbon itas ever emitted since it was founded in 1975. this goes much farther than rival amazon, which has only pledged to be carbon neutral, removing as much as it emits, and only by 2040. here is the problem. there are now more than 500 hyperscale data centers in the world, and counting. these are huge sites set up by microsoft, amazon and their rivals, and housing thousands of computer servers. the more time we spend on social media or streaming video or shopping online, the more of these are needed. if that growth continues, by 2025, data could be using 20% of the world's energy, according to research from sweden. that is as much as transport consumes today. 0ur reporter chris foxx spoke to the president of microsoft, brad smith, and asked him what they are planning to do about it. we have a lot of confidence we can achieve these goals. in part, we will need to become carbon negative by reducing our own emissions very substantially, not just for ourselves, but across our supply chain, our s

and points toward the optimal price on carbon required to redress greenhouse gas issues. so, first let me give you a little history. in 2000, nine while working in the obama administration i convened an interagency working group to determine the government wide value for the social cost of carbon. as of 2016, the united states government estimated the social cost of carbon at about 50 dollars per ton of co2. since its inception, the sec has been used this foundational tool, setting roughly 150 federal regulations to cover areas such as energy efficiency and fuel economy standards. today, the benefits from u.s. regulations written to include the social cost of carbon total more than one trillion dollars. however, there are several reasons the current administration, the social cost of carbon is too low and as a

neutral is about about going carbon neutral is about trying to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide weven't seen levels like this for 800,000 year, another mesh the role carbon dioxide is playing is is the stratosphere is cooling, and that is an indication that as david said the radiation is not getting there and warming the stratosphere up. has the is cooling we are warming, that is another way of showing the effects carbon dioxide is having. of showing the effects carbon dioxide is having. alex burnett, brightons, scotland. how much of this rise is the natural cycle of changing world temperature patterns? have scientists researched past patterns? of course they have. they have looked at all the option, the scientists will look at every possible scenario, climate has been variable, the patterns have been changed. it will continue to change. the cycles generally driven by various things, the orbit of the earth, subtle changes in that, changes in solar strength as well, and of coursers the natural things such as volcanos, pushing more in the way of particulates into the atmosphere. taki

carbon pricing, reforming the social cost of carbon using the best available evidence along with robust funding will deliver the inexpensive reductions in co2 emissions that are necessary today and in the future. >> mayor benjamin, you are recognized for 5 minutes of comments. >> thank you, members of the subcommittee for the opportunity to testify. we have condolences on the loss of representative cummings, senator from south carolina with second a route that we miss him a great deal, steve benjamin, the pleasure of serving for the last we 10 years as mayor of columbia, south carolina, the center of our great state in addition of serving the state government and we host 50,000 students at columbia college to historically black colleges and the proud home to fort jackson, largest training center which trains 45,000 soldiers per year. climate change is the biggest challenge we face. i'm pleased the comedy is holding this hearing on the effects of climate change especially that the subcommittee wants to hear about its impact on local government budgets and local economies. they are alread

carbon negative, not carbon neutral. so, we don't know the details of how they're going to do that.sting initiative. we must leave it there, thank you both for your expertise and fantastic to get a nswe rs for your expertise and fantastic to get answers to those questions, thank you to our viewers for sending them in. plenty of opportunities to get your questions answered over the course of the year over the continuing 0ur course of the year over the continuing our planet matters. we'll be looking at the subject of climate change over the years building up to that key summit in glasgow in november. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen willetts. the showers have been producing some snow over the hudson snowdonia in snowdonia, which you can see behind me. it is colder air which has filtered its way right across the uk. you can see the shower cloud gathering. this little window of clear air in between is a high pressure ridge which will become, i think, the focus for the uk's weather, over notjust the weekend but the next four or five days. we have not seen this length of

carbon, they want to slow it down.eenhouse gases in the first place, using renewable energies instead. until now, most companies choose to offset carbon emissions. google invest in their own green projects in order to achieve neutrality. the result of all of this is that it slows down carbon emissions, but does not reverse them, to be carbon negative our company is going that step further, taking away more carbon than they emit. you mention google, more big news about them? the owner of google announced today that they have become the fourth us company to achieve $1 trillion evaluation. alphabet has come a long way since its activism and for listing as a google when it floated $85 a share? absolutely, it has certainly blowing past those early beginnings. if you look at the way the company is run now, compared to how it was when i first came on and leasing back in 1999, it was really more that kind of plucky start up. looking at google now, it is certainly a much more grown—up company, the company that is really respond

by 2030 microsoft has pledged to become "carbon negative" — removing more carbon from the environmentd by 2050 it hopes to have wiped out its carbon footprint altogether — by removing all the carbon it has ever emitted since it was founded in 1975. this goes much farther than rival amazon — which has only pledged to be carbon neutral — removing as much as it removing as much as it emits, and only by 2040. here's the problem. there are now more than 500 "hyperscale data centers" in the world — and counting. these are huge sites, set up by microsoft, amazon and their rivals — and housing thousands of computer servers to cope with our growing social media, video streaming and online shopping use. if that growth continues, by 2025, data could be using 20% of the world's energy — according to research from sweden. that's as much as transport consumes today. chris fox spoke to the president of microsoft — brad smith — and asked him what they are planning to do about it. we have a lot of confidence that we can achieve these goals, that we can achieve these goals. in part, we will need to bec

carbon free by 2050. tech giant microsoft vows to completely eliminate emissions from its supply chain. bubble tea bursts onto the global market but is the trend about tupac? we'll explain. —— to pop. good morning and welcome to asia business report, live from singapore with me, mariko oi. let's begin with climate change, because starting today the bbc begins a year—long series called our planet matters, and microsoft has just announced an ambitious plan to reduce its greenhouse gases. it has pledged to become carbon free by 2050. that means removing more carbon from the environment than it in the. the bbc‘s chris foxx spoke to the company's president, who says it's working on a range of ways to make this happen. we have a lot of confidence we can achieve these goals. in part we will need to become carbon negative by reducing our own emissions very substantially, not just for ourselves but across our supply chain, our so—called value chain, as well. you're talking about ways to remove carbon from the atmo

carbon emissions.community are really behind us, we have great volunteers. like you say, we do a lot which wouldn't be possible with the small staff team we have. we have about 50 volunteers in and out all the time helping and thousands of children and adults. it is an ambitious goal that got electric glasgow has to become carbon neutral by2030, glasgow has to become carbon neutral by 2030, do you think it is achievable? i think we really need to be ambitious. climate change is a massive problem and we are facing a climate crisis. it was declared a climate crisis. it was declared a climate emergency in scotland so absolutely, i think it is achievable if we all work together to achieve those ambitious goals. joe, how important do you think those smaller projects, the individual actions are in terms of adding up to that overall goal? well, it is phenomenally important because i think it is easy to forget in certain circles homogenised to some people are. for example, last month alone i spoke to two separ

carbon pricing that is packed to a former socialist of carbon using the best available evidence along with robust funding will deliver the inexpensive reductions and co2 conditions they're necessary today and in the future thank you. >> thank, you doctor green, stone mayor benjamin you are now recognized for five minutes of comments. >> mister, chair thank, you and ranking member, and member of the subcommittee, for the opportunity to testify. >> obviously we have our condolences and a lot of our chairman, representative cummings, as someone from south carolina with south carolina routes we all miss him a great deal. vice name is steve benjamin. i have the pleasure of serving for the last ten years as a mayor of columbia, south carolina, in the center of our great state, in addition to serving as our state government, we also host nearly 50,000 students attending the university of south carolina and columbia college, into historically black colleges, we are all the proud home to fort jackson,, when the largest trade center which trains approximately 45,000 soldiers per year. climate c

lorna, first of all, carbon neutral by 2030.o you do that? lorna, first of all, carbon neutral by 2030. how do you do that7m lorna, first of all, carbon neutral by 2030. how do you do that? it is very challenging, the council says it is extremely challenging and ambitious target reach. there is a lot of blue sky thinking, quite innovative ideas on the table. decisions in some areas but i think we will get the full plan in three oi’ we will get the full plan in three orfour months we will get the full plan in three or four months plan. we will get the full plan in three orfour months plan. we have already seen increased pedestrianisation, cycleways, more unusual ideas are perhaps having a bus company run by the council where perhaps the tickets are free. to try and encourage people onto the buses and from cars. remember this is a city where 70% of people live in flats so another area of the consideration is how do you convince those people to use electric vehicles, how do they charge them? might they be able to charge them? might

first, carbon. we are facing, and mike, i appreciate your comments of a climate crisis throughout the world. i'm pleased wind is part of the solution and in congress, state capitols, we're starting to see more democratic and republican bills to put forth the carbon challenge we're facing. in a way, it's not surprising -- i want to poll two antidotes. you may have seen the announcement by larry fink, black rock, i think the world 's a set owner at $7 trillion, they committed climate and sustainability will be one of their core principles. the largests a set driver in the world has wind driving it and not surprising congress is moving forward more seriously looking at legislation. the other data point driving carbon, there was an article yesterday in forbes, i was reading it, going through energy across the board, renewables, declining costs and potential for renewables. this is from ford, one of those analytic pieces they do so well summarized and talking about the decline and cost of renewables. in

. >> the san francisco carbon fund was started in 2009.s basically legislation that was passed by the board of supervisors and the mayor's office for the city of san francisco. they passed legislation that said okay, 13% of the cost of the city air travel is going to go into a fund and we're going to use the money in that fund to do local projects that are going to mitigate and sequester greenhouse gas emission. the grants that we're giving, they're anywhere from 15,000 to, say, $80,000 for a two year grant. i'm shawn rosenmoss. i'm the development of community partnerships and carbon fund for the san francisco department of environment. we have an advisory committee that meets once or twice a year to talk about, okay, what are we going to fund? because we want to look at things like equity and innovative projects. >> i heard about the carbon fund because i used to work for the department of environment. i'm a school education team. my name is marcus major. i'm a founding member of climate action now. we started in 2011. our main goal it t

first, carbon.e facing and, mike, i appreciate your comments climate crisis throughout the world and i'm pleased wind is part of the solution and that in congress and in state capitols we're seeing more democratic and republican bills put forward to address the carbon challenge that we're facing. in a way it's not surprising when two an.ecdotes by larry fink, owner of blackrock. they committed that climate and sustainability will be one of their core principles. the largest asset manager in the world acknowledging climate and have that driving their asset allocation and not surprising that congress is moving forward more seriously looking at legislation. the other data point backing the need for carbon and will obviously drive more wind energy, there was an article yesterday in "forbes," i was reading it. it was going through just energy across the board and renewables and declining costs and potential for renewables. this is a direct quote from fobs, one of their analytic pieces. "forbes" said it's

a number of british cities are aiming to go completely carbon neutral by 2030, removing as much carbonsphere as they put in to it in a bid to tackle climate change. glasgow, which is hosting a major un climate change summit later this year, is one of them. it's promising to achieve the ambition by radically cutting emissions and planting enough trees to absorb the carbon in any remaining fumes. our science editor, david shukman, reports from glasgow in the latest part of the bbc‘s our planet matters series. from a proud history as an industrial powerhouse, glasgow now wants a future that is carbon neutral. no easy task in a city that depends on fossilfuel. its motorways encourage commuters to use their cars. the council's first move is with its gritting lorries. they run on diesel and are now being adapted to use cleaner hydrogen as well. they are as clean as possible... just one step, says the councillor in charge, anna richardson, of many needed in the next ten years. we need to work as quickly as we can to decarbonise this city, as do all cities across the world. a 2030 target is hu

now microsoft has pledged to be carbon negative by 2030, removing more carbon than it produces, and byiped out its carbon footprint altogether by removing all the carbon it has ever emitted since it was founded in 1975. microsoft's president, brad smith, says the ultra—wealthy tech giants need to lead the way in the fight against climate change. i think that we will see a lot of energy in the tech sector, in part because it's a sector that is doing well. it can afford to make these kinds of investments, and it should. i think it's something where competition can make each of us better. we can make each other better. we can make each other better. and we always want to compete and do better with the people in your industry, but at the end of the day, if we make each other better, the world is going to be better off, and we should applaud each other as we each take these new steps. with me is simoney kyriakou, who is the editor of financial adviser. what do you make of that? nice words. do you think it will sort of translate to real action? i mean, anyone can say we want to do something

carbon dioxide.ould persuade the people who make air—conditioning units to use something safer and, in the process, reduce temperature rise by half a degree centigrade? that would be, well, pretty cool, wouldn't it? hannah long—higgins in the united states has been to meet a man who has done just that. for this man, solving the problem of climate change isn't a matter ofjust tackling one issue. if we don't solve this problem we won't be able to solve the other problems of poverty, of peace. this is going to overwhelm everything. we are able to avoid up to half a degree celsius of future warming and we can double that by making cooling equipment super efficient. i grew up in the ‘60s. i was at berkeley as an undergraduate, protesting, and i learned that students and young people have power. at my age i can continue to contribute. but i want to help the next generation. it is astounding how we package things and throw them away. two of his granddaughters work with him. and hannah very much sees herself

carbon dioxide.rsuade the people who make air—conditioning units to use something safer and, in the process, reduce temperature rise by half a degree centigrade? that would be, well, pretty cool, wouldn't it? hannah long—higgins in the united states has been to meet a man who has done just that. for this man, solving the problem of climate change isn't a matter ofjust tackling one issue. if we don't solve this problem we won't be able to solve the other problems of poverty, of peace. this is going to overwhelm everything. but what will it take to move the planet away from the brink? so we have to prioritise what will give us the fastest way to avoid warming. this has to become a new metric, the metric of speed. and his idea for speeding things up? your air—conditioning unit. we are able to avoid up to half a degree celsius of future warming and we can double that by making cooling equipment super efficient. i grew up in the '60s. i was at berkeley as an undergraduate, protesting, and i learned that s

carbon and save money.one simple step and i was only thinking about it when we were talking just now. what are the kind of steps people can do very easily from today to achieve what you are saying they can? i think the first thing is about learning. within our site we record trip advisor for sustainability, content on where you start the journey. mention the kettle, an easy one is boiling taps, they allow you to have instant boiling water. i've looked at those. you will see what we have done on the site is taking the cost, comparing it with savings. the paybacks are very good. often, months not years. and equally, once you understand the saving, it's easy to spread the cost of that is what you want to do. you don't have to start with expensive things, you can buy an led light bulb for a couple of pounds, start small. but isn't pa rt of pounds, start small. but isn't part of the truth of this, cut carbon, save part of the truth of this, cut carbon, save money. part of the truth of this, cut carbon, save mone

and this is where the carbon is. what's interestingng about this, theyey made this field, ththis is new, so they're helpining tto sequester carbon. living soils like this retain on average three times more carbon than the foliage above the ground. if we were to restore the vast areas of the e planet where we humans hahave degraded the soils,, just think what an impact we would have in t taking carbon out of the atmosphere. as much as a quarter of the world's land mass has been degraded. and much could be rehabilitated in the way we have seen on the loess plateau. and we'vve only just begun to recognize the real value of natural c capital. surely,y, invtiting in t the recovery oof damageged enviroronments is a cost-effective way of solving many of the problems we face today. >> why do we not invest an equalal amount,t, if not t m, into a shovel-ready techchnolog, so t to speak, whwhich is nature's s way of sequesteriring and storing c carbon? it is a actually by investing in our ecolological infrastructe anand ecosyst

to do so, the company will become "carbon negative" by 2030, removing more carbon from the environments. so what are businesses and councils here in the uk doing to make an impact on reducing carbon emissions? stroud council in gloucestershire was the first council in europe to be carbon neutral. green councillor simon pickering is chair of its environment. in siu now. welcome to you, thank you so for being with us. quite an achievement and i guess what we all wa nt to achievement and i guess what we all want to know is how have you done it was yellow it's a combination of a cts a cross was yellow it's a combination of acts across a whole load of different things. mainly insulating peoples houses, private houses to reduce their carbon emissions we've also insulated counsel houses and pumps and solar panels on them. cut the emissions in our counsel buildings, we also put solar panels on both of our latest sensors and combined heat and power boilers. we actually know how much carbon emissions we admit and saving more of our interventions then we are actually emitting. we have not declare

the answer, said carbon, is quite simple. >> murder for money?tentially, yes. >> money, in the form of an insurance policy. >> i think that he wanted out of the marriage and did whatever he needed to do to make sure that happened. >> and if he got $310,000 in insurance money and got out of the marriage, so much the better. >> yes. >> the evidence against tom foley was circumstantial but comparing. >> yes. >> they never found the murder weapon. what do you think happened to the gun? >> i wish i knew. >> but even without it, in march of 2009, one month after dar foley was gunned down in her shower, state police arrested tom foley and charged him with his wife's murder. >> and i was like, this cannot be happening. why do you think that i did this? i did not kill my wife. >> to tom and dar's close friends the pierces, news of tom's arrest was almost as stunning as the news of dar's death. >> could you conceive of tom either hating his wife so much that he wanted to kill her -- >> absolutely not. >> never. >> or killing her for the insurance money. >>

to introduce incentives for low carbon the us. and staying on all 4 tires general motors has unveiled the driverless car that will power its planned autonomous ride sharing services it's been developed alongside honda in an effort to catch up with rivals who are already far ahead. this is the origin story of g m's self driving ride sharing aspirations the rather boxy looking symmetrically designed cruise is supposed to be the future of inexpensive day to day travel safer and better and cheaper than whatever you're doing. but cruise has got off to a slower start than collaborators g.m. and honda would have liked regulators a yet to get on board with the $19000000000.00 project cruise is still awaiting the permit it needs to do driverless test rights on california's roads however c.e.o. dan ammon is already planning the next steps i'm interested to thank you very much for speaking to me. he says cruz is well on the way to production but hasn't said when or where. that's our show thanks for watching for more go to our website at www

other carbon dioxide typical carbon dioxide emitters of the country in an easier has been .losing a lot of its forests forests as oceans as carbon sinks well so so sorry and they're not losing them they're being cut down right. correct yes they're being cut down there being a shifted. and made into palm oil plantations in many places in the country right and yet in indonesia an official policy is a voluntary reduction to reduce its emissions by 26 percent by this year 2020 how's it doing on that how how far how much progress is it making on that it that number i think was an earlier commitment in 2015 the country revise its commitment it will try to reduce carbon it mysen by 29 percent. by 2030 on its own in 41 percent and using international collaboration i mean. if we look at the entire. country. as far as efforts to reduce that climate change there needs to be more efforts i mean there is the there are still there have been some. concrete. results that happen on the ground and for that i mean for example in jakarta in an effort to reduce car carbon use there is a public t

there are no carbon to carbon bonds. it's carbon to carbon bonds that produce suit oot or particulate matter. so, you have clean burning methanol and cheaper than the propane it's displacing. so, it's cheaper and higher quality. they're using methanol for drying tobacco in china. every third cigarette smoked in the world is smoked in china. they're looking to dry tea in india which is another emerging market. the use of methanol for home heating. there's now 30,000 homes using methanol for heating. another 50,000 will be added this year. and we're seeing that market also grow in china. i want to close quickly to talk about the use of methanol as a hydrogen carrier of fuel cell. it's got the highest hydrogen to carbon ratio of any liquid fuel. you can take that liquid methanol and put it on a car and reform it to hydrogen. so, you can take a fuel cell, fill up a car with liquid methanol, and then use the hydrogen from that methanol to fuel a fuel cell. we're seeing applications in stationary power that's typically cell ph

creating carbon here and sequestering carbon elsewhere. we care. been challenging everybody not to fly on private planes. that's probably the single biggest creator. i know. i felt the exact same thing. trust me. >> thank you. [laughter] >> i will take the last one. what is a successful caucus finish for you? tom: i really don't know. there is someone on the campaign who things about that, but i'm out here trying to do this. >> ok. tom: nice to see you. how are you doing? >> good. how are you? campaign 2020 bus is across iowa ahead of the caucuses next week asking voters , what issues should presidential candidates address, what issues would you like to see presidential candidates discuss? >> how are you going to come back from where we are at. the current president has been on a track where there has been a lot of damage and there needs to be a lot of repairs. what are you going to do to repair it? >> more about antitrust legislation and corporate control. another thing is also freedom of speech, particularly protection against -- protect

it is notjust trying to reduce carbon emissions, it is talking about going carbon negative.that are promising essentially to remove all the emissions the company has ever released. how will he do this? as well as part of its daily business practice, forcing employees to think about emissions when they make decisions, the company says it is going to try and also move things across its entire supply chain. they are not thinking about reducing business, but they are looking at how do we power our data centres because those obviously emit a lot of emissions. that is why they are trying to buy 100% renewable energy and the intend to rely on electric vehicles going forward. this will ta ke vehicles going forward. this will take time, but we have some reaction with the extension rebellion group in the uk activist they're basically saying this is an important step in the right direction. quickly, microsoft will say it is doing this because it is the right thing to do but is there a business case for it as well? what was interesting when brian smith of the presentation, he showed how

but my claim it found ways to minimize their carbon footprint even more. having each crew member used their own coffee mug. using vegan makeup. and 2nd hand costumes. and serving vegetarian food. what's really important is to include the people working on the project. the swiss crew all got the message and were happy to do their part. london 29000. that's a gallery just declared a climate emergency. museum hopes to reduce its c o 2 emissions by 10 percent by 2023 by switching to green electricity and using the train for business trips but since good but it's just the beginning. because the art world can be wasteful with opulent buildings. large open spaces that need lots of lighting and constant climate control. not to mention all of the art shows art fairs and exhibitions with works alone from all over the world and international visitors but cannot be both sustainable and wild and free. yet. now is the time for us to change our relationship to this planet. so that we're no longer the cause of so much damage. to the fish. and early january a major exhibit

creating carbon here and sequestering carbon elsewhere. we care. been challenging everybody not to fly on private planes. that's probably the single biggest creator. i know. i felt the exact same thing. trust me. >> thank you. [laughter] >> i will take the last one. what is a successful caucus finish for you? tom: i really don't know. there is someone on the campaign who things about that, but i'm out here trying to do this. >> ok. tom: nice to see you. how are you doing? >> good. how are you? [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> c-span's "washington journal," live every day with news and policy issues that affect you. tuesday morning, democratic presidential candidate tom steyer discusses his 2020 campaign and the iowa caucuses. watch c-span's "washington journal," live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning. join the discussion. c-span campaign 2020 bus is traveling across iowa, ahead of

creating carbon here and sequestering carbon elsewhere. we care. been challenging everybody not to fly on private planes. that's probably the single biggest creator. i know. i felt the exact same thing. trust me. >> thank you. [laughter] >> i will take the last one. what is a successful caucus finish for you? tom: i really don't know. there is someone on the campaign who things about that, but i'm out here trying to do this. >> ok. tom: nice to see you. how are you doing? >> good. how are you? >> the first votes of campaign 2020 are just days away. watch our unfiltered coverage of the iowa caucuses live monday, you were a three as we follow the candidates on the campaign trail, take you inside caucus voting sites and show live caucus result beginning at 730 p.m. eastern www.c-span.org on c-span, online at www.c-span.org or listen with the free c-span radio app. what's coming tuesday on the c-span networks. the house meets for general speeches at 10 and returns at noon for debate on several bills including a resolution supporting the irania

carbon emissions rise in the. same circuit right or wrong it's been uncovered that in fact the united kingdom spend billions of pounds of broad supporting fossil fuel projects that will emit an estimated $69000000.00 tons of carbon a year that's the same as the country the size of portugal and nearly a 6 of britain's total annual carbon emissions but don't worry the government says the next $70000000.00 tonnes is just a worst case scenario even so the darker shade of green deals doesn't seem to be going down too well with the hypocrisy of the government's position is breathtaking it boasts of his green credentials one minute and then hosts an investment summit which sees billions been invested in carbon intensive industries in africa this government's promises on climate action are completely hollow but things could go from bad to worse for grettir and co as 90 percent of the 2000000000 pounds worth of energy deal struck at the u.k. africa summit well for you guessed it fossil fuels but of course the united kingdo

>>be a nof british cities remaining to go completely carbon neutral by 2030, removing as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they put into it, glasgow, which is hosting a major u.n. climate change summit dinner this year, is one of them. our editor reports fromlasgow in the latest part of our planet matters series. >>anrom the proud history a industrial powerhouse, glasgow now want a future that is carbon neutral. no easy task in a city that depends on fossil fuels. its morways encourage commuters to use their cars. the council's first move is with its gritting locks. they run on diesel and are being adapted to use cleaner hydrogen. justne step, says the counselor in charge, anna richardson, of many needed in the next 10 years. >> would need to work as quickly al we can 2-d carbonized the city, as dcities in the world. a 2030 target is challenging but ev achieve that. work to >> do you think we can make it? >>ls which went up by different amounts. >> worry, pani anxiety, whether i will be able to afford it when the bill comes. anxiety to the point of illness. >> the scheme was

and then that certainly leads to the release of heat trapping carbon dioxide and black carbon back into the atmosphere which perpetuates the cycle. and burn out forests do that as they lose capacity to hold that. i want to know what congress is doing about that. but what we see is whether this is caused by a power line. and our electric utilities have to do better 0 or whether caused by scigarette. the reason they are so devastating is because of climb change and i appreciate the time and yield back. climate. >> gentleman yields back. committee has before it unanimous consent request for -- unanimous consent request from the full committee chairman. any objection? seeing no objections so ordered. the chair recognizes ranking member on the full committee for purposes of his opening statement. you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you very much, chairman rush, we appreciate you and others holding this hearing jointly between the two subcommittees. i want to welcome dr. davis from oregon state university school of forestry and dave mark and from central oregon and talk more about t

the british prime minister warns about carbon emissions. striking energy deals entirely centered on fossil fuel. international my names you know neal your company. fars news agency say's its international website has been taken down after a partly falling fall of u.s. sentients it comes as tensions continue to build between the 2 countries and it appears the us treasury department had a major role in the. the photos news dot com websites is being blocked on u.s. treasuries orders and emails sent to followers newsagency by the provider clearly stated that the treasury's office of foreign assets control has argued the agency to the sdn specially designated nationals list if you visit the website fars news dot com it is unavailable the web page does not load now it's important to note there is a web site fars news dot i r that i are standing for islamic republic that has just been created but that is only in farsi the language of iran not other languages even though far as news generally publishes in different languages those are not available

how do we d carbon isaac? do we collect carbon dioxide that results from burning it and take away sequestrant area in field reservoirs? do we convert it into hydrocarbons and natural gas into hydrogen and carbon dioxide and then bury it but use the hydrogen to burn not the hydrocarbons, well-known chemical engineering technique. what else do we do? i think that's one area. we have all the basic technology we need to apply it but in order to apply it to widescale it needs proper economic incentives or disincentives. that is where the public policy comes in. that is what they should be advocating. i think it goes with the grain of younger generations and certainly speaks into the data and the forecast as we see it today. pretty consistent they been saying the same thing for a long time. and today we see more localized evidence of damage occurring. whether that is warmer oceans or unusual freak weather. i think it's time to do something about this. it would've been easier had we started a long time ago because th

are so vital for acting as carbon sinks and absorbing carbon dioxide the australian government estimates the country currently in meds around 500 $60000000.00 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually now experts say that in the last few months alone the out of control fires have pumped an additional $400000000.00 tonnes of c o 2 into the atmosphere. in the past scientists have generally viewed wildfires as carbon neutral and believed fresh plant growth eventually absorb the c o 2 emitted by burning forests but changes in precipitation patterns and drought are affecting how quickly some woodlands regenerate and many researchers are worried that in a vicious circle wildfires like those in australia could make climate change happen even faster let's get some more analysis on the story now we can bring in capetown joshi he's a science communications expert who focuses on energy and climate policy and thank you for joining us tell us more about what exactly scientists are predicting for our future how it will look. so australian scientists have a bit of a long history in terms of trying to understan

announcing a green deal for the future of the plan spend a trillion euros to stop using coal to become carbon neutral in 30 years that's a quarter of europe's total budget will ask our correspondent what that money will be spent also coming out germany leading a new effort to halt the fighting in libya the chancellor angela merkel inviting key players to another peace conference it comes after libyan military commander refused to sign a cease fire agreement during talks in moscow by russia and turkey. i'm burned off it's good to have you with us the european union has announced plans to dedicate a quarter of its overall budget to tackle climate change the europe investment plan will direct a trillion euros over the next decade into climate protection the go to reach carbon neutrality across the entire continent within the next 30 years. this is what the united states moon landing looked like when it comes to climate protection the european commission is not shying away from drawing comparisons to that group shattering event. we do not have all the answers yet today is the start of a journey.

tax divemaster will do nothing if you don't put in a global carbon tax and of course a lot of the carbon emissions now are coming from asia from india from china europe and united states of flatlined and we need a global carbon tax that of course europe the united states i think need to do something to smooth the way for india and china they're much poorer they're much more dependent on big energy growth to feed their populations to provide jobs and it's a very difficult global conversation this is a little piece of it thank you very much professor kenneth rogoff at heart from harvard university thank you. our correspondents know the alarm reporting there the c.e.o. of google on an alphabet called for global regulation on artificial intelligence at the world economic forum meeting in davos sundar pichai warned of the dangers of new technology as well as the benefits he says legislation will be needed to avoid the misuse of machines by venture arms high tech guys are always watching him down force this time it was the turn of one of the biggest names in technology to be captured on camera

development program he asked him how companies are transitioning to a low carbon economy. i don't think we should pretend that the transition to a low carbon economy suspends the laws of basic economics if you haven't got the money you can afford something but i think what has gone wrong in the last 10 years is that our financial markets are regulated as the established players in the industry have totally disregarded that which science and increasing also economy cannot economists have shown us namely that the cost of inaction is going to be an affordable and today we are in a world where new energy production in many parts of the world is almost at parity with fossil fuels that's also why you see here in davos this year many of the main players in the financial system and the financial markets beginning to look at investments into the future a low carbon economy something that is not only relevant but increasingly going to drive the decision making some of the major head fund some of the major insurance companies banks are now putting literally billions of dollars of eur