Environment thats what we talk about today hello welcome to eco india im sunk that raghu coming to you from mumbai commercial agriculture it is one of the biggest reasons for the forestation accounting for 14 percent of all the tropical trees fell between the years to positive and 2010 according to u. N. Figures in the regions like the west on cots in india local farmers are having to cut down trees to make ends meet to support their agricultural practices but a Community Project is turning pings are bound for the region. Of. The forest around the religious number large in western india secure to its people especially because of his productive trees they dont only grow old they are also the home of the great on birds that eat the red fruits from the crease. Doc 2 and 69 year old. Are the heads of 32. 00 well it is that on the area they know of the importance of the crease. This g. O. P. Hornbill 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 this 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 Production cranes would chop down here a few years ago to build the trees. And due to economic pressures. Of the secret to make space for livestock farming however the remaining grandfathers contained precious treasures the fruit of the baby doc a tree our own ingredient in the i regret the herbal medicine and just the fear while function has developed a business idea from this local harvest the fruits of the crease. One of them is to get old roger. He has been a permanent member of the project for if hes. Really. Reverse migration who was leaving for mumbai to do a job as there was no one in the family or arning livelihood at the Railway Station very present to develop the nature connect on protected me and suggested me for the job of collecting. Job. Creating income for the local its an important concern of the process if they no longer rely on family they dont need to chop down the crease. The groups are dried and sorted by the after drawing of him and take of the seeds not among the famine is 25 years old. Yeah he did promise that i come here to actually my live with my husband and also what ive been on here good to you does everything but then my mom my dad and most of them whatever day. Journey and so night is codirector of the fair while back to nature connect project teaching the locals to live from the fruits of the old grease is one aspect that matters to him another one is their contribution to Climate Change the forest areas that we are saving in give us an cards sequestering 11000. 00 carbon in one acre so if we say that in the last one year we have saved 2000 acres of forest it concludes in c we 200000 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide getting released in the in the atmosphere. Of the flute have been dried. To make model but none which are used for. A mixture of was used in i would think medicine i mean one in 20 communities make good living from harvesting processing and crossposting different 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 whole bit. It nests in the branches or baby doc if. You do intensively for the station 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 next things i took going to mystic sites around 23. 00 even if things are its where on the tree will be given the nobility crown so it was very clear that if we are going to save the beleaguered trees we have saved the greed on this project not only ensures that crease are protected from being cut down the survival of the baby doc increase taken care of by the whole bill itself. As a socalled farmer of the forest it ensures that the seeds of the food spread again. Planted and dont call the school hand in hand many a time history has shown us that big come from investing in not Conscious Companies seem to be small and changing more and more investors want to be assured that their money is being human in a socially and environmentally responsible. 20 years 2010 a drilling rig exploded in the gulf of mexico leading to the Largest Oil Spill in history. Revealed that the attempts by oil company b. P. To cut costs and maximize profits would 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 its source. For this scandal some investors have sold of 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 planet and profit. But can they deliver. Cynical as the financial world might seem ethical considerations of always played a role in investment decisions. The origins of responsible investing traced 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 that was really the genesis i think of. A manic kind of grew up along with the Green Movement through seventies and eighties and kind of going through think the right move of tobacco stocks removal of firearms manufactures removal of Nuclear Weapons manufacturing is all about excluding companies this exclusion strategy is called divesting and despite the initial excitement it led to mixed results. However according to modern sneery 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 when a portfolio is less diversified its risk goes up. The 1st of such funds for example has historically underperformed the market but the big money is now betting that this will change in his 2020 letter to c. E. O. s larry fink the chairman of blackrock the Worlds Largest fund manager came right out and said climate risk is investment risk. I dont think there is a choice between plan and profit. To somebody actually 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 or wasting resources back to the bottom line well that brings the rate 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 so for example in between yesterday mutual funds they had to hold folks while. For a long time because there were questions around the governance structure of the company. This allowed those e s g phones to avoid the stock crash that followed reasonable use emissions cheating scandal. Of their cars with Cheating Software to make them. Green companies are also better prepared to face the growing threat of Climate Change. These factors are reviving the appeal of green investment. Sustainable funds are 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. Thats only 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 textuality hes on the environment. And even if a company is genuinely green buying its shares may not translate into creating an impact. The theory of change behind Sustainable Investing is pretty straightforward the more fun Screen Companies receive the more they can pursue their sustainable goals. 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 theres also creates an opportunity for other investors to buy shares at a lower price when this happens the stock price can quickly pound back to its previous level without impacting the companys valuation ringback ready. Its not enough it simply isnt because the effective tiny. Investments are not a magic formula. Very often what is advertised to sustainable is just. Greenwashing. Victory says 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 and. 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 or maybe this opens up new business opportunities. This tropical rain forest has stood for millennia but human beings would need very little time to destroy it driven by the desire to make money. Just like any other bankers who came to work i was actually doing. So we do a lot of deals. Done so no heart 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 i thought that owning a. Forest you know it can have a better appreciation on value compared to real estate. Companies pay having to protect the forest like volkswagen the Worlds Largest automaker buys carbon credits from her tono to compensate for the emissions put out by its cars neither she nor v. W. Are willing to say how much they cost per tonne a 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 that going to grow up thats trying to protect the rain forest but the reality is the past 20 years all the rain forests are pretty much gone in certain countries is because we believe that you know we sure can afford it into other use its s. S. All moyle pulp and paper for human 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 for. Just a few kilometers outside the protected zone 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 gunman 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 this school which provides instruction on how to climb a coconut tree for example. Many of the people who have now gained jobs through hard tonneau previously earned their living selling tempered feel now theyre learning how to extract sugar from the sap 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 now 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. Needed the money. 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 rain forest are likely to sell better. But when he 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 thank you. We just have to believe in the concept. Isnt claiming that his emissions 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 economy is based. But that often has a negative impact and economists believe believes the b. Should be looking at the value of each other and how we can work with the natural to build a sustainable economy. Weve created our economy on the model of the hands no we are not a hands 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 few but the thing is a lot of life youve got to look to nature to understand what kind of economy works and what kind of economy. We are in the kind of economy and the measurement of a clearly thats what. The problem is that the only elements of value that we have measuring g. D. P. Is produce goods and services which up out of it and thats. Theres a whole lot of other stuff thats happening. The value of the base pollination is more than 150000000000 euros. Thats about 110th of the global agricultural output. But of course the big number can you any invoice nature of delivers a lot of value into the human Economic System not measuring these values. Today is growth its trying nature its just trying to fabric its going womens health. So its just trying public while its trying to create private wealth and the terror of it theres no law which says dont do that. Why would you and i will do this. The the. One of the key elements of being economy is that it was the creation of systems which deliver less environmental damage. Things like Sustainable Agriculture which uses more labor is actually rewarding a Sustainable Agriculture but also a change in uses water usage uses pollution increasing. Land base vatican city and strong. And it would result in growth but in different kinds of groups all. Green growth. Green growth is definitely something to aspire to but not always something to live up to 12 history human settlements have eaten into the habitats of other living beings its no different in northern be hard but its out on the brink of extinction but locals are now coming together to try and protect the regions fishing crocodiles. Even as hatchlings they are easy to recognize with a 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 at the violet trust of india has studied these reptiles for years but not somebody. In milk or the other there is a big board like structure on the snout on the of the snout its called color so it is different from the other 2 indians found to be up and other google accordions they conflict with human being but doesnt have any contact with human being. Himalayan tribute tree of the ganges the gun duck descends into the indian plains at val making a go from me for years it was impossible to monitor and research the habitat and population of the guardians because social unrest in the region held scientists back. Around 2007 after the situation relaxed a study showed that only 200. 00 surviving cardiology maine in its entire distribution range prompting the i. U. C. N. To recognize the species ask critically endangered at many places pipes and local people the their god. So these are the reasons behind declining populace and they were the most important reason is it was enough than the banks the misson of. The nest. And it affects the populace. A 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 graveyards 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 that uptimes and their nests. Yeah subjects are connecting intimate they are on be there canelo we were asked to check on creole nests and whenever we spot any we call the environmentalists and inform but he said to keep looking until all new findings. For the year there were at the point he was living. Once the nest is identified it is 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 carriers hatch and reach the water. In 2014 the w. T. I released satellite factory else were just still in these waters now which is about preserving their habitat. Plan. Last year we moved a proposal in the state board for wildlife are to notify a critical area of about 10140 kilometers of the river as upon their wisdom is a means giving it a status of a protected area if you give it the status of on the reason is that it will involve locals in quandaries and plus there wont be any Land Use Change in that he was the banks so it is going to be a good estate it is going to be a long term called the reason more activity in the recent acts and for the real population in the going to be what the conservation efforts are helping the species to bounce back to did these deep waters hold one of the largest populations of carry out again but balancing the needs of the local people with the requirements of graveyards and other of i like 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 them solving the involvement will making more money for many of us but even the smallest conscious choices we make like using a very usable coffee mug amending a leaky tap when orientals more nimble whats mending the imbalance i will leave you with that cotton see you next week please stay safe and dig good kid a few also and your loved ones go back. With under the sea. Just about it. Will be part of future living spaces. Rising sea levels are threatening coastal areas. 20 cities the touted as the solution. What sounds like Science Fiction has long been a reality. Waterworld. In 15 minutes on t w. This is some top story most stubborn rice farmer from thailand. His problem past. His credo no chemicals. His wife thought he was crazy. And. Step. Out. Orders. To the pests dont stand a chance. Training success for. The capital. Starts july 27th. 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