a climate catastrophe is closing. today, aniko india will examine what's up stake for india and the wood. hello and welcome . i'm sun thought i hope exports. c, global warming is driving a rise in sea levels and causing heavier rain fall and storms. that's alarming for flood prone communities on the front lines of the climate crisis, like you're in min by when authorities predict parts of the city could become permanently submerged by 2015 amman, good day lives in amman, by suburb. and he's glad the monsoons have ended. his horn is habitable now, but the ground floor apartment, he lives in, was completely flooded just a month ago. by the are those men in, within 10 minutes? the house filled with over a meter of water whose gloom? that's why we're dense. about flooding every year. in turn it over the for did he shot on his foreign camera shows family members wading through dirty water looking for various belongings. every season drains him and his neighbors of thousands of euros to bear for home repairs and brings uninvited guests the long legs are there. so there are snakes and mosquitoes that come in with the flood want her mother got a gun the last time there were 3 or 4 sneaks in our house or marking one learning door though it also brings in mud you and all sorts of garbage order was gibber, joseph in gore. we also get skin diseases because of the flanks level one in ga problem gather, flooding and extreme rainfall have increased 3 fold here since the 19 fifties and scientists say global warming is playing and increasingly significant role. when the air is one where it can or more moisture for a long time. so what happens is that there is a lot of emotional. so any building, no, and band it is so saturate it. we're dancing all of this water in a short sparrow. yeah. so originally, so thin chevy to extreme rain for in this regions. so best and god's is an example weighs a mom base. it's on the western coast. so it bear the brunt of the mountain, tell the move in from the ocean. there are several factors which disadvantage the city with rising sea levels, its forecast to be under 3 feet of water by 2100 winder hearings. and this also gets stretched out into the sea for a while. but when the sea level is rising year by year, the water that gets flushed out into the sea and it takes a long, long time for the water to get flushed out. so that is going to be when, when multiple extreme weather events act together. melissa rivers don't have that that he said poyser or she, myra and meaty once dreamed the region. but as the city has grown from a cluster of fishing hamlets to becoming indian financial capital, migrants from all over the country have moved in in the process. the rivers have become blocked and polluted. ocoee did go above the verde works on slowing down urban flooding and its impact. are we up? we really were good driven, meander and generally take a big deal hard gun libya. i'm sure you've seen that it takes an s dawn i received on with the large cove. now people i need of land, so they start straightening the rivers nearby and her bill cutting them off at unnatural angles. get them going. the thing is you can't deliver what to do and bonnie, in any language, you know what i mean, you can decide whether takes a left on, on a right done to live. so especially when there's a lot of water, the river crosses old man, mid boundaries war, and this is the main reason it floods. so this is the mean reason, museum of border bib, adobe re upped. i would go to $31.00 of the cities, mangroves also ones formed a natural barrier which absorbed x as flood water, but they're being cut down for development. one of the cities biggest shopping complexes be casey, sits on a former mangrove swamp. and then there's a legal encouragement and bad planning. in its latest attempt to tackle these problems, the government has put a committee together to look into all the contributing factors i strays coming up with the time we change our plan. so for one way, us or change action plan and they are ready to talk with scientist so that they have a plan would use science base plan on which i think is quite also do change action plans are based on the bus tell the players or have a manifested in the past, but that warm d was, you know, if they're not or enough that once they've got us for future events, they may be attempting to make more people connect with the cities, natural flood protections go both of 80, started driven much in 2018. this is important to understand what citizen communities develop and understanding of the local environment and the impact of climate change. this is one of the handful of platforms residents are now using to demand change an action in a city with bleak climate projections. one by the decimals are just some of the many 1000000 killed in india who stand to lose if climate change continue unchecked. already its effects, a heating people in the rural areas, heart issues set to be among the world region bearing the brunt of the impact will socially and economically this sheer devastation is one of the many effects of global warming. the fact loans of 20202021 ravaged the indian seed office, spangled millions of people lost their livelihoods. what can we do? we are dependent on relief now. we will have to leave this in the funds to find work. there is nothing left to the east, an indian state is one among many regions in the country already living with the consequences of the climate crisis. hotspots or extreme weather events, drought cycles, but also there. so what that needs is that, you know, we're, are already facing the front of the regular rain patterns and prolonged droughts has affected the lives of millions of people the extreme that has inflicted heavy losses on farmers and the agriculture sector. indian economy as a whole will suffer over the next 50 years. the soldiers, industrious and construction and transport sectors combined could respectively hemorrhage 11. she didn't us dollars. retail tourism and manufacturing are also going to be hard hit. if india ignore the climate crisis in 2015, more than 190 countries agreed in paris to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius. india pledged to reduce its carbon emissions and increase forest cover that would absorb up to 3000000000 tons of carbon dioxide. the country wants 40 percent of its electricity to come from renewables by 2030. and india seems to be on track. down again. we are less than 20 megawatts. we now have more than 100000 megawatts of windham, soda and biomass. in many cases, india has sunlight in abundance, and labor is cheap to d, india generates the most affordable solar power in the world. but that's not enough to satisfy the countries growing energy needs. 2 thirds of its electricity still comes from fossil fuels like gold. the country has made no pledges to phase it out . on the contrary, the government is opening more coal mines and called power plants than ever before . india is continued re lines on coal based power makes it the walls, 3rd biggest polluter after china and the u. s. export, see, it is likely that india will become the main emitter of greenhouse gases in the 2nd half of the century. if it doesn't take a different pop, you can ask other countries and in this doing so to, for example, to promote technology transfer as 11 element. if we are not able to to bring also campus like in the on board, there will be a $1.00 warming already really in $11.00 decayed or 15 years from from is this would mean a clover failure. a big country like india needs to move more decisively towards a $1.00 degrees celsius bought for itself. and for the world, only been there is a chance of getting the global climate crisis under control. the battles agreement create an obligations that states have to live up to that open channels. legal action over climate change to the activism is mostly whistle on the streets. but some of the biggest climate victories escort in court. bending court cases could get a boost from a recent woo and human rights council resolution. it recognizes access to a healthy and sustainable environment as a fundamental right. people all over the world are suing governments and corporations over climate change. and they're winning. this man made legal history as calgary is a lawyer from pakistan, like many other developing countries, it is being hit particularly hard by climate change. for years, people that have suffered from torrential rainfall, floods, and droughts, amongst other things. and this is bound to get worse. so back in 2015 like i refiled a petition with a revolutionary argument. it's that the government wasn't doing enough to protect that citizens from the effects of climate change. and in doing so, it was violating the human rights i never realized. or even tor expected that it would get as big as it did. friday was to a large extent in our own dora, but that i will really its target. the high court agreed with him and his team and ordered the government to step up action. and it set up a supervisory committee to ensure that happens. that was a real breakthrough. and it's one of the early cases using human rights arguments and using them very successfully to convince the court that they do have the jurisdiction. and that is within that, how it came to me. catherine high m, as the co author of a major report on climate litigation. while all this was going on and pakistan another case made headlines, environmental group, or hender, was suing the that's government with a very similar arguments. they said by not lowering emissions faster, it would endanger people's lives in the future. the case went all the way to the country supreme court. it eventually upheld the decision that by 2020 the government should cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25 percent below 1990 levels. the court said the dutch state must protect it. citizens, human rights, more specifically the rights to life and the right to respect for private and family life. but wait a 2nd. how are these connected to climate change? well, let me give you 2 examples. extreme heat waves already claim lives every here. so just sitting back and doing nothing to stop temperatures from going up even further, would breach people's right to life or take rising sea levels. hundreds of millions of people on islands or in coastal regions might lose the homes in the near future . this breaches the right to respectful, private and family life in both contributing t climate change. i say investing in fossil fuel infrastructure or subsidizing fossil fuel companies. and by failing to regulate the activities of others, a, allowing a big polluting entities to keep deleting governance or failing in that responsibility to protect their citizens from human rights. hands that come with climate change as caligari and or hinder relied on human rights as the central argument in their cases. and in doing so, they really pushed open the door for cases and other countries. in germany, for example, activists took the government to court over its climate action plan, and one germany now has to cut emissions a lot faster. and in australia, a court ruled the environment minister has a duty of careful young people when, for example, deciding whether to approve coal mine expansion plan. a group of young people, including swedish climate activist, witter tune burke failed to petition with the un committee on the rights of the child. it set that argentina, brazil, france, germany, and turkey violated their rights as children by not taking action on climate change . but the committee said they must 1st bring lawsuits and the national courts of these countries human rights as universal, which is why it's very likely that we'll see a lot more of these cases in the future. and actually not just against governments . a dutch court has found that shell has a legal responsibility for climate change shall, will have to cut their emissions a landmark decision with far reaching implications for environmental policy. worldwide in may, 2021 dutch environmental group mill. you defend cease celebrated a huge victory against the oil and gas company, sell one of the top 10 climate polluting companies in the world court, i think, to be held that shows climate policy was so poor as to be unlawful. and that's groundbreaking. poor benson is a lawyer at client earth and environmental law and geo. the court ordered shell, which says it will appeal to cut its emissions by 45 percent by the end of the decade. it's the 1st time that a corporate group has been ordered to, in essence, comply with the goals at the power agreement. the court called sales current climate policy, intangible, undefined and non binding. and said the company was therefore in danger of violating its duty of care. the grounds were once again human rights and what the court is saying there is that the interests that are served by its decision, i fundamental protections for people on this planet, protection at the climate. those interests out why shows commercial interest. ah, experts say litigation can only be one part of the solution to the climate crisis, but with success as being scored in courtrooms all over the world. it's clear that for now the legal battle is the winning strategy. ready ready from a winning strategy in the court to one in the renewable energy sector here in india, where the state grid is a notoriously unreliable. it's a huge problem for businesses large and small in could not cost state capital. private companies are stepping up to fill the wacko with decentralized solar power . darcia jody is walking on a new sickly. the metal needs to be shaped by a hammer and then he did and cool down multiple dimes before it is just the right shape and strength. for the past 40 years, he's needed help to get his machines running. his wife demonstrates how she used to rotate a crank shaft to regulate the flame for many hours every day. now that function is performed by this little regulator that control the solar powered mortar. 2 years ago, the investor, 16500 rupees, almost 200 euros in the set up. wizard. one bergman there now and then we have the solar mortar use for that. i don't need to trouble my wife anymore. i do too. she suffered from fatigue and body exceed the solar powered unit blows the air with greater force and the steady basin that ensures better heat or so the work feels easier, and i feel happier and more engaged with my work. just below this is velan gill, sir. marvin gear carlo, the blacksmith and his family lived 20 kilometers south of bang, law city. most of the 7000 people living in their neighborhood are connected to the national grid. but here, like almost all over india, power cuts are a daily occurrence. in the state of could not take on the cycle, foundation offer support for those who rely on a steady energy supply. they have small scale entrepreneurs to buy solar powered systems. sell co pays one 3rd of the costs with the rest financed through a micro loan. today their stuff i had been with the maintenance of the battery and the solar unit, so great mainly oh, working closely with the the bank and other the financial institutions and done, oh, so we are, we are mainly what are the skins available for the particular mailed we will be in the community or cabinet games as well as get them are get their financial linkages in. there are so much sheila little go to bank sal, go, has now helped out around $3000.00 small entrepreneurs in could not adjusted dairy farmers. hadash of are, has also installed big solar panels on his roof to be saved from power cuts and not be dependent on fossil fuels anymore. even when it rains he can use solar power that is stored in the battery. he used to spend a lot of money on gasoline to run the milking machine needing one liter of the fuel every single day. now the machine that run on solar power, he's been able to employ more workers and to increase milk production significantly . me let me in our dairy farm, we use solar power for cleaning the caution and for milking the cold. we have installed a light as well blade you things are better. i work. i mean i started with duke hours and due cause. now i have 29 cars and all, everything is good for someone who can i use envelope and it back in bangalore. data jody is now selling the sickle. his profit has risen by 30 percent since he bought the solar powered blower, as it enables him to produce the tools faster. this helped the whole family during difficult times. his wife tells us a password diode and it's been hard to save money in the past year name our children were out of work. after the pandemic began, no one offered them a job on the line. but the solar power machining provided help in saving our family from starving. wonder number one more valet in a florida. these do centralized electricity systems could help smaller communities and entrepreneurs to improve their livelihoods and income. but they can also play an important role in, in the us transition towards a cleaner energy mix. the the palace agreement wasn't the 1st time world country said commitments. the solve a common problem. 10 years ago, 74 members of the un pledged to restore millions of square kilometers of the was reinforced by 2030. i rebuttal looks at how it's going. the way the trees are disappearing at an alarming rate. in brazil alone for the football fields of primeval forest, lost every minute. globally, forests have shrunk by 10 percent over the past 30 years. and yet these forest are essential to survival. they slow the global rise in temperature, produce oxygen and bind carbon dioxide. the mixed forest as well managed, provides, would, and creates prosperity and jobs. reforestation involves planting new young trees. like in this nursery, where oak tree coatings are being used to raise up new forest. can the world's forests be restored? 10 years ago, representatives from many countries met in the german city of bon, where they agreed to restore, deforested and degraded landscapes. it was called the bon challenge. each country set its own goals. countries all over the globe committed to planting 1500000 square kilometers of new forest by 2020, a huge undertaking. that's an area about half the size of the indian subcontinent. but that's not all by 2030, they're aiming to have planted up to 3500000 square kilometers. that's like covering an area larger than the whole of india with trees. it's the world's largest, have a reforestation program from peru in the andes to countries across africa. new forester appearing india is also taking part me over all the bomb challenge is succeeded only in slowing the pace of deforestation . and so the global forests continue to shrink over the last decade alone, 470000 square kilometers of forest disappeared. that scenario lodges in switzerland . many experts agree that the goals of the bone challenge are not being achieved, partly because of ongoing deforestation. what does the organization behind the initiative think of it all. it is a tragic thing because obviously restoration is not an answer to everything. restoration has to go hand in hand with protection of the forest that, that remain, you know, was never intended to take any attention away from that. jim, and he didn't commit to any goals in the bon challenge. as 30 percent of the country is already covered with forest. however, most of it is monoculture. so the forestry authorities are gradually planting a mixed forests. miss mode is reasonably stub below, gosh, i mixed forest is much more resistant to pests and climate stress and is much more valuable to the entire ecosystem because many more species can establish themselves here. a mixed forest is also much better for building up ground water for the condition of the humorous and nutrients in the soil and the owners wallet or food in goat boarded as vipers. it's a mixed forest require more work, but also create more revenue from timber. these commercial forests that most bon challenge participants are focusing on even if many nations are behind on their goals. a start has been made. it's vital that reforestation continues creating a sustainable planet is not one of the options anymore. it's the only option we have if we hope to thrive in our ecosystem and co habit with other living organisms . think about that and i'll see you again next week from all of us in india and germany. good bye. and thanks for watching. ah. with blue with ah a with who oh the water came at night last summer a terrible flood devastated the oro valley little was left standing. what does the region look like today? ah, our residence dealing with focus on europe in 30 minutes on d. w. and fronting the powerful 18 months after the violence on the capitol hill. it's clear that the us democracy was in great danger than previously believed. my guest is weak from 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