What can we do about this thats what we talk about to be a little welcome this is equal india and on some of the. Over the last 100 years changing lifestyle has meant that if you produce an vinnies more and more toxic chemicals into the feet denny for example intermittent power cuts have led to a primitive ration of diesel generators over the us they alone contribute to 16 percent of the ambient air pollution in the city a clean tech start up could just a computer do use this number and make way for cleanup. Locals on the shop floor are busy helping solve one of the biggest problems facing new delhi. Indias capital has the air quality of any major city in the world in terms of particulate matter concentration residents are reconciled to their feet the incessant pollution seems inevitable. Every time you step out of your house. Or you find yourself and a lot of other people around you. And you find a lot of people suffering from breathing difficulties because this is the pollution in the city we are helpless however. We have to carry on with our job to make ends meet. One of the biggest causes of daleys air pollution is diesel generators. For electricity back up in a city that experiences frequent power cuts when diesel is burnt to generate electricity toxic gases and particulate matter released into the air. The w. H. O. Safety limit for particulate matter is 23. 00 micrograms per cubic metre these are generators cause its density to rise to 300. 00 micrograms per cubic meter. Innovation was founded some years ago to find a solution for this problem. And he was using. The. Block from the. Exhaust. The shield is a direct proof a device that oxidizes the outgoing particulate matter hydrocarbons and Carbon Monoxide from diesel generators. Now. So if you look at how small the. Pointy micron something that doesnt even get. So thats something thats really captured and thats why we. Could actually capture these micro elements which would have otherwise having. Men exhaust from a diesel generator. The gas contaminants. And Carbon Dioxide the particular is trapped in a filter and converted into c o 2 using. These. Regenerate themselves so they dont have to be replaced. From these. Technologies. It will be close to 15. Those are fair that weve been able to prevent from getting for you that would be approximately ward or people will be the new year. So far chucker has installed it director for devices and diesel generators in Big Companies and private households lawyer joe di sagal chuck the shield installed in a Large Office Building he owns in delhi he hopes his example will encourage others. In august of 2007 that we had. In store here in this building and that was the 1st installation in brooklyn we have for. 125. So it all adds up to Something Like 500. 00 a year and then just one installation now the point is that with one installation you cannot have any discernible changes that you can see this is has to be adopted more widely. In late 2019 the Supreme Court mandated and mom and Pollution Prevention and control authority directed a ban of diesel generators during the winter months in the National Capital region and its surrounding areas an indication of how urgent the problem is retrofitted devices like joxer shield however are only one part of the solution to meet the target of the National Clean air programme which is reducing particulate matter levels by 30 percent by 2024 daily needs many many more innovations. Carbon dioxide is the 4th most abundant gas in the arts. Atmosphere now if this concentration begins to increase thats when things start again that is why and how does this happen lets find out. The air we breathe is invisible but there are ways of detecting its precise composition. There is composed almost entirely of nitrogen and oxygen. Carbon dioxide makes up a fraction of one percent but its a fraction thats growing and thats a problem c o 2 is among the primary causes of the greenhouse effect are such a natural process that warms the earths surface. After sunlight passes through the earths atmosphere most of the rays are reflected back up. Some of them reflected back down again by sunlight reflecting particles in the atmosphere but as pollution increases so does the amount of radiant energy returning to earth the heat is essentially trapped and builds up like in a greenhouse but now more than it would do without our activities. 3 quarters of human made Greenhouse Gas emissions come from burning fossil fuels for energy use coal fueled power plants are among the biggest polluters. The Agricultural Sector also produces huge quantities of the gases another prime contributor to greenhouse emissions is industry. Meanwhile the worlds human population continues to grow its more than tripled since 952 an estimated 7700000000 people. At the same time Global Economic growth is that 3 percent a year and that means more Energy Consumption more Agricultural Production and more industry. This in turn means rising temperatures due to the greater amount of c o 2 being. Into the air. China has become the Worlds Largest emitter of Greenhouse Gases followed by the us india russia and japan. Germany is number 6 on the list responsible for 2 percent of global c o 2 emissions. Its estimated that about 1000. 00 people in the countries around the pacific have to breed. The reasons are different of course traffic dependence on fossil fuels wanting forest. In many countries. Because it produces large quantities of Carbon Dioxide a young woman in. Her country. After every harvest thailands rice farmers burn off the remaining rice straw stubble to clear their land. The acrid smoke carries far and wide on the wind. In the Northern Province of lampung the harvest is underway since early in the morning women have been out in the fields cutting the sheaves with their sickles. Fish theres a lot of straw left on the field typically a kilogram a kilogram of rice if its left to rot it will release me fame a potent Greenhouse Gas but burning the straw emits c o 2 and creates fine particulate matter thats harmful to people and the environment. Wants to change things after completing her studies in bangkok she decided to return to her home village and develop an alternative meaning. Fall. Patience its very hard when i grow rice and. This is taste of a long time and after the ice saw its been its very nice that when i come to my home town i dont share in that life will rise much i find solutions far off burning forests for the entrepreneur rice troys not waste to be disposed of but a valuable resource. She pays the farmers the equivalent of 0. 03 a kilo. The golden stalks abroad by the truckload to honey or buy factory. Here the straw is chopped up because the air is full of fine straw particles everyone has to wear a facemask. Them a small pieces of straw a mixed with hot water no chemicals are added but the mixture has to boil for 4 hours. That produces a pulpy mess which is then cleaned and dried. On the factory floor we meet up again with the farmers from the rice field. This is a very good thing that i salute it used to be that we had no work after the rice harvest. But with this factory job i can improve my income whether you want me to even go to. The pump is used to make biodegradable paper packaging but machines to process the pulp are expensive so the entrepreneur exports the raw material to india we have a customer because in india that acid logic off. And table. And they are less often romack. And contact us and they add very interesting you know our product because. Our product is the special feature of the table where is a fin coating of rice starch which helps the product resist greased heat and liquids in a 2 hour test with a pup by a salad the dish stayed leakproof. Nice. The next day she pays a visit to the city of chiang mai the economic and cultural heart of northern thailand. At Chiang Mai University they also conduct research into rice the auditorium is designed to resemble a grain of rice. Here scientists support thai startups with their expertise. You are one come one would like to manufacture takeaway Food Packaging made of rice straw in her own factory she hopes it will become financially feasible by 2020 shes especially interested in the research as work on improving the rice starch film say that it takes longer to dissolve. What do people here actually need tableware made of rice straw. As in most cities in thailand life here is largely outdoors the hundreds of Street Vendors and food stands all use disposable containers. If you want to start up your own Production One vendor says and Pay Attention to the size it. Shouldnt be too large or the customers will think the portions are too small and the price is important 1. 00 baht per piece would be ok. The bad out of it one bought is the equivalent of 0. 03. That has a lot of coffee shop concepts about having time to shill is a high speed light at 40 feet up its moscow. To us at the encourage. The response. Small restaurants list biodegradable packaging. In the back of her home village yellow one coming one is visiting her grandparents. And yet. This is where she started her business a few years ago. She carried out of 1st experiments with rice straw pulp in her grandmothers cooking pots. At 1st her grandparents were far from thrilled is this why they had sent my grandchild to study at great expense in the capital. Oh no i did yeah. But meanwhile they have ample reason to be proud of her. And as the saying goes the rice farmers of lump of love how to turn a straw into gold. Because burning it would be a terrible waste. Lets discuss something controversial. For a few years theres been a debate about whether on there we should take the plea to travel across cities and countries we know that early in scores high emissions of Carbon Dioxide and are bad for the environment our colleague traveled to sweden to move to an activist who has given up flying for good and is going into others to deal with. 14 and a half hours for changes lets go. Im on a mission to find out more about the no fly movement and how its impacting business and so im heading to the heart of the movement in sweden the long way by train a journey that flying would take less than 2 hours 1st just to train to hamburg environmental activists like cutter to have got people thinking about their contribution to the Climate Crisis and rethinking that flying happen sweets even have a new word for it felix scam or flight shame. Emissions from flying make up more than 2 percent of the global c o 2 total. I really thought we were getting to go on the ferry i cant believe it i didnt think we were going to but the train is actually going to go on the ferry. The train is less carbon intensive the ferry not so much but its a novelty there for so much for that plate. 5. 00 and my trip and im still excited. But now on the bus to copenhagen that feeling is starting to wear thin. The number of passengers traveling by rail in the e. U. Is on the rise Swedish National train operator s. J. Reported almost 32000000 customers in 2018 a record 1500000 from the year before. I never fly it doesnt work cant do it anymore what we do here he doesnt matter. We are. All. Over there. Hold water its not cheap i can take the. Flight but i dont want to i finally arrive in stockholm 2 hours behind schedule here the no fly movement has given rise to business talks muster meaning train vacation was launched in january 2019 it started as a Facebook Group the following numbers rose from around 5000 in 2018 to more than 100 that was and andreas existences on i was 1st saw an opportunity in the tourist sector i think we have to be more like a little bit like the slow slow Food Movement be more press and focus more on the adventure or the trip itself and be more not so like grasshoppers. So where everyone go there and its destroyed the Fledgling Company that means Offering Group tours by train. Marketing interrail cards and organizing conferences to train enthusiastic. And travel costs have been kept low in the e. U. By the lack of tax on jet fuel and limited taxes on tickets among all the factors cheap flights in europe have shaped a whole generation travel is now an option for almost everyone on the continent. Over 4500000000 passengers took to the air in 2019 more than twice as many as in 2000. I meet in Stephan Allen from easy jet he says the airline has reduced its Carbon Footprint by 32 percent since 2000 that means as many people board of an aircraft the less fuel it consumes per person for a particular meter we are also flying the most efficient aircraft in the world at the moment we believe we can do more and that goes for all our lines reports show that akram c o 2 was only. Part of the problem other missions are also harmful the last destination on my trip is. My own thing gave up flying 10 years ago shes running a campaign to get people in sweden to pledge to do the same in 2020. So far she has more than 14000. 00 signatures. But im not too concerned because i think that what this is about is that the people who sign up they have to feel engaged in this and try to also convince people around them. The bottom line on trains buses and ferries i produced about 82 kilograms of c o 2 less than half what planes on the same trip would have limited i cant promise to stop flying but i can say at least that this trip has made me consider how i will travel in the future. And the goal for us is not really to eliminate Carbon Dioxide entirely we cant avoid producing it which is why we need smarter solutions to manage it better a start up in the Southern State of. Helping Big Industrial polluters emissions into something useful now how does that work lets stick. In here has a deep and complicated relationship with coal as a fast developing country it needs a lot of energy and about half the countrys electricity is generated from coal. But the resulting emissions have a Significant Impact on quality and contribute to the Climate Crisis. About a quarter of the Missions Including garb and dioxide come from industry. In no way do they like. Looking at capturing the goblin dioxide before it is released into the atmosphere and dunning it into something useful. I think it is quite. That get everything out there theres only so much we can do about the placing of existing industrial emissions. And placing them at an amazing pace. So a lot of wind hydro other other forms but. Theyre just. Industrial emissions. And we have to think about. What would be their mission in the city of duty caught im sure most companies the 1st in the country to capture carbon on an industrial scale while making a profit its 1st customer is the factory that makes sodium also known as much. In addition to Salt Production goblin and another chemicals it also needs to govern dioxide for its production. The company used to have to buy it but now it uses the Carbon Dioxide emitted from its own coal burning boilers during the production process. The emissions are collected and returned to the block 1st they are cleaned of dust and other toxins the toxins to a Sewage Treatment plant. The gases through the companys proprietary sold and the Carbon Dioxide which then goes directly to the sort of actual production. In the end only. And water vapor image. If you see this dad used to be going out. There to learn if you dont see anything because theyre going to the gas if you want to theyre just going to sit in the gap. Much the only you know you can delegate that if you can use it but making any going to. Any how theyre going to get it because it is more than 99. 00 in view. Today the blonde generates around 175. 00 of godwin dioxide buddy. And the and die plant itself can now be classified as god the new crew the soda ash is then sold as a roman d. V. D. Mostly for the production of glass. In the us cities develop and gloss glad offices mushroom using the new means a significant decrease in the Carbon Footprint of office buildings. I think our pieces are companies and believe that its possible to. Be climate neutral Carbon Dioxide negative or negative but at the same better than produce product and keep going about the business youre doing. World economy sure resistance critical change perhaps Green Technologies that ensure profitability significantly the worlds problematic in the missions. Theyre fries and no be Carbon Dioxide levels. In their vegetables if we dont want also and our policymakers accountable to do i hope this episode has given me many reasons to do so well see you again next week until then good bye. I have a. Were all set. To go beyond the obvious. That were all live. As we take on the world. Were all about the stories that matter to your country but what ever it takes. Running now to get. Made for mines. Tough it is for me. Is for. Beethoven is for. Me to use her. Hand beethoven is for. Beethoven is for everyone. Beethoven 2020. The 50th anniversary here on d w. They were forced into a nameless mass. Their bodies near tools of. The history of the slave trade is africas history. Describes how the greed for power and traffic plummeted and entire continent into chaos and violence the slave system created the greatest planned accumulation of wealth the world had ever seen up to that. From its very beginnings until this very day human tragedy should the modern times this is the journey back into the history of slavery i think will truly be making progress when we all accept the history of slavery as all of our history. Our documentary series slavery routes starts march 9th on d w. Play play. Play. Play. Play. This is the news my from berlin china reports another increase in the number of people infected with the coronavirus the figures have gone up after 2 days so fewer cases being registered nearly 90 percent of the new infections are in the city. More than 70000 people now have the virus worldwide also coming up arms embargo has become a joke and so its you know for we all need to step up here we report on why the u. N. Is criticizing efforts to stop weapons from reaching libya and why