Environment thats what well talk about today hello welcome to equal india im sunk that raghu coming to you from mumbai commercial agriculture it is one of the biggest reasons for be forestation accounting for 14 percent of all the tropical trees fell between the years to power and 2010 according to u. N. Figures in regions like the west on cots in india local farmers are having to cut down trees to make ends meet their support their agricultural practices but a Community Project is turning pains about for their future. If. The forest around the. Rest in india to its people especially because of his productive trees they dont only grow but theyre also the home of the great with the red fruits from the crease. Dr who and 69 year old. Romani are the heads of 32. 00 well it is that on the area they know of the importance of the crees. This trio of horn bills is here from ages and is being respected by our forefathers from generations the age of this tree is not less than 225 years whenever there is any function in the village the street is 1st. The Western Ghats a mountainous region running to the south of mumbai in former times there was a unique rain forest here not much of it is left many large productive crees were chopped down here a few years ago to build the trees. And due to economic pressure. Of the secrete makes things for livestock farming. However there are many grandfathers contained precious treasures the fruit of the baby doc a tree known ingredient in the i regret the herbal medicine and. The fear while function has developed a business idea from this look of is the fruits of the crease. One of them is to do your own project. He has been a permanent member of the project for 8 days. With no example of reverse migration who was leaving. To do a job as there was no one in the family or arning livelihood at the relist station very present to develop a nature connect contacted me and suggested me for the job of collecting. Creating income for the local its an important concern of the project it did no longer rely on the family they dont need to chop down the crease the groups are dried and sorted by the vision of the growing of them and take of the seeds binocs among the vermont is 25 year old yvonne. I come here to actually my live with my husband and those who are dependent on us here a good 3 years was a big. Janssen i. Q. Score director of the fair while back to nature connect project teaching the locust live from the fruits of the old trees is one aspect that matters to him another one is their contribution to Climate Change defaulters stadia that were saving in the us and cards sequestering 11000 carbon in one acre so if we say that in the last one year we have saved 2000 acres of forest bunkley its see we 200000 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide getting released in the in the atmosphere. After the flutes have been dried. To make my ribbon on which i use for. A mixture of was used in i would think medicine i mean 120 communities make their living from harvesting processing and crossposting to fruit the income last year alone around 100000 year. About 1000. 00 of the old trees could be saved from deforestation and that is another property of the haunted it nests in the branches or be productive. Youre doing pensive deforestation the population of these rare birds had declined enormously thanks to the project the population is now recovered we found that the out of our nesting fire took 28. 00 mystic 5 around 23. 00 even if things arent where on the tree theyll be i mean i believe so it was very clear that if we are going to save the beleaguered trees we have saved the agreed on because. The project not only ensures that crease are protected from being cut down the survival of the baby doc increases taken care of by the hornbill itself as a socalled farmer of the forest it ensures that the seeds of the foods are spread again. Planet and profit dont always go hand in hand many a time history has shown us that big come from investing in not Conscious Companies seem to be small changing more and more investors want to be assured that their money is being human in a socially and environmentally responsible. 20 years 2010 drilling rig exploded in the gulf of mexico leading to the Largest Oil Spill in history. Ports revealed that the attempts by oil company b. P. To cut costs and maximize profits could lead to the disaster. Taking its toll on. The incident illustrates the frequent conflict between the planners and shareholder profits. But what if it didnt have to be this way. Very expressed concern around it. For this scandal some investors that sold their b. P. Shares concerned about the companys record on environmental social and governance issues so they avoided the stock crash that followed the oil spill. These 3 metrics are now called e s g and theyre defining a new way of investing that promises to reconcile climate and profit. But can they deliver. As cynical as the financial world might seem ethical considerations of always played a role in investment decisions. The origins of responsible investing trace back to 1758 when some religious groups prohibited members from profiting from the slave trade ringback but the modern era of responsible investing really evolved in the 1960 s. Together with the Boycott Movement it started with the boycotts of companies that did business with apartheid south africa thats really the genesis i think of. Many kind of grew up along with the Green Movement through seventys and eightys and kind of going through the great move of tobacco stocks removal of firearms manufacturers removal of Nuclear Weapons manufacturing about excluding companies this exclusion strategy is called divesting d and despite the initial excitement it led to mixed results it is however according to a modern political theory hurting your bottom line a little bit and you have to sacrifice some financial returns. Vestments remove entire sectors like energy into bacco from investors portfolios on a portfolio is less diversified this risk goes up. 5 the 1st of such funds for example has historically underperformed the market but big money is now betting that this will change. 2020 letter to c. E. O. s larry fink the chairman of black rock the Worlds Largest fund manager came right out and said climate risk is investment risk. But i think think there is a choice between plan and profit. Somebody hears the metrics that youre scoring companies on you look at anything or is this really any s. G. Thing or is this just Good Business are you polluting are you wasting resources wasting resources back to the bottom line or that. Its straight back into big business. Screening companies for the s. G. Criteria has proven an effective way to anticipate and avoid scandals capable of wiping out share prices for example in between mutual funds. For a long time because there were questions around the governance structure of the company. This allowed those e s g firms to avoid the stock crash that followed hughes emissions cheating scandal. Of their cars with Cheating Software to make their. Green companies are also better prepared to face the growing threat of Climate Change. Being sacked as a reviving the appeal of green investment. Sustainable funds or attracting new assets at a record pace. The real question then is not whether Green Investments can make profits the question is whether they can be called green in the 1st place. The definition problem with got yesterday the lack of a Central Standard is an issue so company could in theory score very well on these. Rankings but on the other hand have very large negative effects on the environment. And even if a company is genuinely green buying its shares may not translate into creating an impact. d the theory of change behind Sustainable Investing is pretty straightforward. Green Companies Receive the more they can pursue their sustainable. Vestments are unlikely to financially starve the fossil fuel industry for this strategy to be effective it must permanently reduce a companys ability to Access Capital when capital is divested this also creates an opportunity for other investors to buy shares at a lower price when this happens the stock price can quickly back to its previous level without impacting the. Valuation. Its not enough it simply isnt because the effect is so tiny. And investments are not a magic formula. Very often what is advertised as sustainable is just greenwashing. Of the cases impacts can be achieved only by sacrificing some profit. In investing in our early profitable nongreen companies and then diverting the profit to environmental causes would be more effective. At similar calculations miss a more important point. It is tough to actually measure an impact on your conscience is clean you dont profit from an activity. Many people simply no longer want to invest money at the expense of the environment and that alone is an important step forward. Now investor pressure is forcing companies to reconsider their Carbon Footprint wunmi if this is true. That is by being for projects that reduce Carbon Dioxide emissions in other parts of the world in 20 the Carbon Offsets market was worth it to 5700000. 00 now for maybe this opens up new business opportunities. This tropical rain forest has stood for millennia but human beings with very little time to destroy are driven by the desire to make money. Just like any other bankers who came through. I was actually doing real estate underwriting so we do a lot of deals. Done so no hard tonneau is heading out to his rain forest in borneo it covers an area twice the size of new york city. Hes bought the rights to the land from the indonesian government for the next 60 years on condition that he protects the forest. I always believe that the environment has their value just like treating it like a real estate thought that owning a. Forest you know and have a better appreciation on value compared to Real Estate Companies pay had to protect the forest like volkswagen the Worlds Largest automaker buys carbon credits from her tonneau to compensate for the emissions put out by its cars and neither she nor v. W. Are willing to say how much they cost and are trying to says discussing prices openly would be damaging to business critics of the trade in Carbon Emissions say it allows companies to greenwash their image even as they continue to contribute to Global Warming we always said theyre going to grow up lets try before the rain forest but the reality is the past 20 years all the rain forests are pretty much gone and certain countries is because we believe that you know we sure can afford it into other use its. Paper for human fuel for humanity needs but i think there is a new model saying that you can still protect the rain forests and make money for the company and also giving benefit the communities while protecting the environment then that should be a new model going forward. Just a few kilometers outside the protected sound the rain forest has disappeared here wildfires tore through the area after a prolonged period of heat but many times its International Companies to clear the forest in order to sell timber to gain grazing land for cattle or to set up palm oil plantations. In his area hard tonneau has set up the cutting government tie a project to show others how the forest can be used to make money without destroying it in the process. He says the money from Carbon Emissions trading can help with that. Hard tonneau has invested in initiatives like the school which provides instruction on how to climb a coconut tree for example. Many of the people who have now gained jobs through hard tono previously earned their living selling timber now theyre learning how to extract sugar from the south of the coconut tree financed by companies in europe. With the. Coconut tree for the 1st time i was scared. But slowly the fear disappeared. And i want to climb 20 coconut trees a day. I think i used to cut wood in the forest for a living. The work was dangerous i only did it for my family. We needed the money. A lot of. Investing in people and the local community is the goal but its not the only goal projects like this are good for his customers image cars made by a company thats investing in people and helping to preserve the rainforest are likely to sell better. But when hard tono 1st started out it was by no means clear that a Big Corporation like b w would be interested in a small project in borneo. We finally make profit we actually start having sales too so technically for the past 10 years we really have 0 revenue and now we just have to believe in the concept. Isnt claiming that his admissions trading project will fundamentally change how we manage and preserve our natural resources. Back when he started Climate Change wasnt receiving the attention it is today. The concept of Carbon Trading was still in its infancy. Partow took a risk starting out small but with a vision. And for him its paying off. Much of the worlds economy is based on crude but that often has a negative impact on the embodiment economist dave believes the be should be looking at the value of each other and how we can work with the Natural World to build a sustainable economy we created our economy on the model of the hamster no we are not a hamster growing doubling in size every week but every few years or whatever. The model of the economy has to be what is the economic equivalent of a caterpillar turning into a part of life youve got to look to nature to understand what kind of economy works and what doesnt. Here in the kind of economy and the measurements its a clear lead us to. The problem is that the only element of value that we have measuring in g. D. P. Is produced goods and services which are out of it. Theres a whole lot of other stuff thats happening. The value of the based on emissions is more than 150000000000. 00 euros a year thats about 110th of the global agricultural. But of course hes never send you any invoice the chip delivers a lot of value into the human economic fist and if youre just not measuring these values for. Todays growth is destroying nature its just trying social fabric its destroying human health. Care its destroying public goods while its trying to create private wealth and whichever if theres no law which is going to do this why would you want i want to just. One of the key elements of being economy is that it was the creation of systems which deliver less environmental damage so things like Sustainable Agriculture which uses more labor is actually rewarded thats Sustainable Agriculture has also reduces from a change in uses water usage is just beautiful. Increases by the 1st big increase is. Land based data stand strong. And it would result in growth but a different kind of growth is. Green growth. Green growth is definitely something to aspire to but not always something going live up to 12 history of human settlements have eaten into the habitats of other living beings its more different in northern behati but its out on the brink of extinction locals are now coming together to try and protect the regions fishing crocodiles. Even as hatchlings theyre easy to recognize with their long thin snout. Weighing up to 1000 kilograms as the guardiola as one of indias rarest animals its population has declined by around 98 percent since the 1940 s. Somebody who marched in her conservationist of the vital life trust of india has studied these reptiles for years i think much of. The military out there is a big part like a structure on the snout on the tip of the snout which is called color so it is different from the other 2 recordings found in india and the other 2 guardians they conflict with human being but doesnt have any contact with human being himalayan tribute 3 of the ganges the gun duck descends into the indian plains at val making a girl from the 4 years it was impossible to monitor and research the habitat and population of the carriers because social unrest in the region held scientists back around 2007 after the situation relaxed a study showed that only 200. 00 surviving koreas remained in its entire distribution range prompting the i. U. C. N. To recognize the species ask critically endangered. Many places fives and local people were there. And so these are the reasons behind the populace and that even the most important reason is it was an upstanding banks the dismissal of. The best for it. And it affects the populace. Dam is causing the erosion of the banks each time the gates are open the stored water flows into the river causing a fast current the w. T. R. Team is trying to coordinate with the authorities to regulate the release of water at least during the breeding time. But other work also has to be done. Are considered relatively harmless they eat only fish once found in the region from pakistan to myanmar now they are only found in India Bangladesh and w. T. R. Knows Community Involvement is essential in protecting them local fishermen here monitor the reptiles and then missed. Yeah something. On with their canelo we were asked to check on nests and whenever we spot anything we call the environmentalists and inform he said to keep looking and all new findings. For the year there were about the point he was living. Once the nest is identified it has shifted from the river bank to a safer area guardiola eggs typically take about 70 days to incubate the fisherman keep an eye on the eggs until the baby burials hatch and reach the water in 2014 the w. T. R. Released satellite back were just still in these waters now it is about preserving their habitat. Thats funny. Last year we moved a proposal in the we had a state board for my life to mortify a critical area of about one 5th 140 kilometers of that he were as a conduit something that means giving it their status of a protected area if you give it the status of one that was and is up it will involve locals in congress and the guardian plus the there wont be any land he would change in that he was banks so it is going to be a good estate it is going to be a long term condo risen in all activity going there is an accent for real populous and in the going to revert to conservation efforts are helping the species to bounce back to do these deep waters who is one of the largest populations of cardiology again but balancing the needs of the local people with the requirements of graveyards and other of my life will be a long term challenge. Now i will admit that the systems we have created as a species make it very difficult to choose the most loving the involvement will making more money for many of us but even the smallest conscious choices we make like using a reusable coffee mug a mending a leaky tap when orientals more and more towards mending the imbalance i will leave you with that cotton see you next week please stay safe and dig good care of you also and your loved ones go back. To change do you have as many imperfections as i do my. Body for cancer my resting heart rate charge to high and i really have to do something about my wrinkles talks a constant cut says self optimization gives me a trend these days clintons not convinced so whats the point can we be perfectly happy. Good should. Say 30 minutes on d w. In the us of Climate Change planes. Are still. Lots of people. Want to do years do they have their future. Deep blue dot com for can make a serious film making it. Clear cut. 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