How the Climate Crisis has hit home for German Farmers . Carbon reservoirs can parched pete land become rich and fertile once again, and reeling in an opportunity how alaskan fishing fleets are making the most of americas ban on russian fish. Now this should be a boom time for Renewable Energy is like wind climate concerns in the ukraine war as in countries like germany, desperately trying to shift away from fossil fuels. But despite the demand, the towering Wind Turbines and their links to the energy grid arent being built. So lets investigate why cole is found. Gas is problematic to germany, wants to move completely to Renewable Energy sources like wind power. But progress is slow. So whats going wrong . Ah, is a project manager without a visible project . Just an empty field in the north german state of mecklenburg for palm and your family. The weve been planning to win farms here since 2015 were talking from and why is nothing happening quite a bit because we only got our 1st permit in january. So now were updating the plant type to the newer generation. So a period of 7 years for to Wind Turbines. Seriously, this is nick. Its not always like that. But with many projects it does take between 5 and 7 years. One, look at the figures from the industry and make it clear that there are problems. Its hard to believe, but investment in wind power is not on the rise in germany in recent years. In fact, its become less than half of what it was. Is it just not a viable business . One thing is clear, getting a permit for a wind turbine in germany means contacting a host of different authorities. And you have to apply for each wind turbine individually, usually on paper 0 to send it over a 1000 pages long. You have to include static calculations, data on the safety of individual oils and grease is used at the facility. Then site maps, noise impact assessments, shadow, flicker impact assessments, turbulence assessments. Theyre all needed for a complete application. Horace, thats good. The a now is to speed up the application process. The federal government is putting pressure on the states by 2032. They need to set aside 4 times more land for wind parks. Meanwhile, other countries upwelling ahead. China is leading the way on wind power, followed by the United States. India is also growing and importance. World wide, wind power is booming. One risk for germany is that International Firms will relocate to the big markets. Nordics for example, closed its plant in the north germans city of ra, stuck its rotor blades, and now manufactured in india for germany. That means not just a loss of jobs, but also of expertise and resources for them in the year. Its a disaster for germanys plans to expand wind power. That was the last rollerblade plant in germany that we have just shot ourselves in the foot here. Now we are dependent on india, brazil, and china. These, when you look at what expansion plans there are globally, its clear our targets are not achievable yet. Even if you made 2 per cent of land in germany available for wind power, or where do you get the rotor blades . Not here anymore, but if you have to buy them and thats not going to work from years on amazon cove and us matoney thoughtful to them. But no energy is still producing. And generally, the family run Company BuildsWind Turbines from the planning stage through to their completion, and then maintains them afterwards. By tapping into this gap in the market and drawing on government assistance during the pandemic, its managed to survive. The d i can in the last 3 years, our projects have suffered from the Political Climate just like the entire industry in germany. But you know that even if a project is held up as it will come eventually, next year well have everything complete, kind, twenties of reform. And that will be good for business. Turnover is set to double reaching a 150000000 years. But higher steel prices mean customers will pay more machine, a basic wind turbine in the area of 6. 00 megawatts over that would have cost 5000000 last year will now cost more than 6 to 6300000. Doesnt jesse books express a common climbing on the bottom line is that germany is lagging behind with its plans to expand when well, the government, its now looking to speed things up. But with high prices and components more difficult to get, its clear. The transition to renewables will be a lot more expensive and planned the summer has shown how much that transition does needs to happen. Heat waves and droughts across europe, left food crops, parched and soils. Bone dry harvests were sent into disarray. Coming too late to early o barely at all. Its not been a tough year for everyone though. Weve been to meet a german farmer who is still managing to cultivate his crops. With question hanging over him is for how long this wheat is being harvested at a large farm near leipzig in eastern germany. The soil here is among most fertile in the country. Its rich and minerals and retains water. Well, despite the hot dry summer, this farm is getting 9 tons. If we per hector, a good harvest, still court anchor is concerned because even his soil is drying out. Theres been far too little rain in recent years. So by diesel program, this from the dry weather is pushing things to the lemon law. If the soil dries out completely, the wheat wont grow, can difference in the no, no matter how fertile the soil list, plants need water to roxanne a matter the problem really does problem for kilometers away, we visit another field where everything is completely dried out. Although the farmer is enriched the soil with fertilizers throughout the year, he wont get more than 2 or 3 tons of wheat per hector. Thats well below half his usual harvest. With the ears of wheat that bare the grain are under developed because of a lack of water fuel. There are 50 hectors, of land here, all of it rock hard. Good said bankhead. See the, thankfully, its not such a large area and some bones a was to put them as this, but its terrible to see what were getting. Hearing these to push and they get seal, see it. Its a very poor harless alga. Meanwhile, in minster land, over in the western part of germany, gout wiser was experimenting with millet. Many farmers are now looking for new farming methods and crops that stand up better to the dry weather. Hes currently growing different types of millet that could be substituted for wheat and corn, dry conditions and even drought on such a problem for millet, which as an extensive root system, so that its able to take in water more efficiently. But many German Farmers feel skeptical about growing a crop from africa that theyre totally unfamiliar with inefficiently. What soil, im convinced that a farmer start asking for the seed half mill. It would be cultivated and optimized for european so that it becomes a fully fledged grain here. Come, well new crops have yet to take off. Many farmers are less skeptical when it comes to changing the way they work. The soil, nearly all manufacturers of agricultural equipment. Now offer new methods for retaining moisture in the ground. This machine, for example, doesnt completely level the stalks after harvest, leaving plenty of stubble in the field. That protects the soil from the sun. Well hasnt got eyes arent. Can. You can generally say that as soon as you have a covering of mulch or stubble and the temperature of the soil drops out to in, the cooler it is, the less water will evaporate us of any of us. Have you thought of a dunston back to court anchor in eastern germany . Hes gathered in 35 harvests in his lifetime and says hes not about to change to a new crop like millet. Leaving more stubble in the field to save water is Standard Practice on his farm to. He wants to keep the moisture in the soil from the winter months all year round and hes already planning ahead for next year. Its likely to be especially tough. The shortage of gas from russia means german factories are no longer able to produce in of artificial fertilizer. Gas is vital for producing nitrogen fertilizer when creek gig right now, you cant buy it at all. Not even for a high price, highest least. Theres still a few months to go before he plans his new crop and needs to apply any new fertilizer court inc. It is hoping that by then the prices will have fallen and that next summer isnt so dry. Mo, from worryingly dry landscapes to the other end of the spectrum, boggy moorland is ideally very wet. It traditionally has to be drained to mind for pete or allow the land to be cultivated. Its something that weve been doing for centuries, but now acres and acres of old pete land are being re wetted as its cold and returned to their sulky former glory. The benefits may be felt by the self same farm as his ancestors dried up the lands in the 1st place, castaneda reports like this one here. An absolute climate wonder they saw insane amounts of carbon in their soil. We being stupid humans and its throwing them at a crazy rate mostly to plant crops, but that releases enormous amounts of seo 2. But there is no need because we can do both phase. One of the most effective Carbon Storage is in the worth and found them at the same time to find out how that is supposed to work. We came here a farm in germanys east of is used to be conventional so dry farm land. But in 2015, it got turned back into p. T last. So wet farm lamps. And this is the guy will charge of it all. The bus, young pity he re entered his 107 hectors completely pity men, gross marsh grasses to sell us hoarse. Feet, but operating in the wet, you need well, special equipment. Okay. These 2 things definitely that look like theyre ever attracted. Its a former snow cat that used to groom ski runs. It had to be completely rebuilt. Kept mostly the change had to be completely replaced them by on the mountain. You have these aluminum bars which are quite aggressive and allowing you to drive up the mountain, but we want to work as gently as possible on the ground. So we installed wide Steel Structures instead of also to keep his feels wet. Pizzey needed to completely close down his drainage system that runs through his fields. The solution was white. Sim, he barricaded the gates with wood, easy and defective, plus, extremely helpful in dry somers. In the, on the way its harm with at all, gonna hide this in years like were having now with this drought of this water here is worth its weight in gold. Gold. If we retain the water, youre over a large area, then everyone benefits, right . Because in the end, the water moves around, thats also an important function of the bogs, not only Carbon Storage, but also as a Water Reservoir course of white, or is it on over soft like, despite the enormous re wetting efforts, the water level here varies a lot from 50 centimeters above ground, to 60 centimeters, been low during the dry summit. This can still lee to c o. 2 emissions in heat lamps. But how do pete length of trap carbon in the 1st place . So we just took this out of the ground. And you just grip this piece of earth and squeeze it in theology waters, carry all that. And thats basically what makes headlands so planted friendly, the water. Because below me, a thousands of tons of that plant. But because people are wet, they dont decompose the microorganisms. We usually do that, dont have enough oxygen to take care of that. So the carbon remains in the soil. No, and all this draw up the plans suddenly decompose suitable quickly, and the oxygen thats in the air takes up the cobblins thats stored in the soil and get c o 2. And the scale is mind blowing between 5 and 10 percent of all men made Greenhouse Gas emissions come from damage people. And this new approach of combining agriculture with pete lent meadows is called polluted culture. And this also has advantages in terms of productivity loyalty. In this way, i ensured that other relation of my peet land is as close to 0 as possible, meaning lesson. I still have areas on which i can continue foreign. I live off auto del sol, look any other advantages water retention. This means even in the dried years, i still get a decent harvest on the down cup. And whats cool is that, hey, isnt the only thing that you can produce on peoples a tentative include common read and bull rush, which is also grown in these parts here at the university of christ. Bob, where scientists try to find out everything about growing stuff in wetlands. Here they scan roots and measure every millimeter of plant growth with these funky machines. They have x ray vision, whenever Something Like that and alga man, but wouldnt it be better and buy mentally if wed give pete lens completely back to nature and not found them so long . Well, as long as the roots are being produced and the peep land is where to go, new peach it build up again. Is this the most important thing is the water level . If the peak land is wet, its good for the climate appears on whether we then farm it or not. Is just a question of what we wanted to do with it. So you dont need to go full on nature to make use of pete lends climate benefits. A case study looked at the climate effects of different water levels in peak land. Raising the water level, indic rate of pete lens worldwide to 25. 00 centimeters below ground would already reduce emissions pipe. 65 percent. Thats 1. 3 percent of global c o. 2 emissions of us and pissy also owns 35. 00 water buffaloes. They grow slowly, but every once in a while he slaughter them and sells their meet the weather. Youve been doing this for quite a while now. Does it pay off in comparison to intensive conventional farming . Not gotcha. Also and monetize it from a purely financial perspective. No venue, but when i think of it as an investment in the future then yes, all right, because im ensuring that the land will still be productive in 20 or 30 years time. Not to or when i think about the fact that my son might want to take over the land at some point in law, and i dont want him to be left with a sandy desert master and have him say, you knew it. Why dont you do anything . Well, i wouldnt want to stand there and be forced to admit, listen, yes, we knew it off. Oh, oh, also guilt. But compared to the revenues of intensive crop farming, the current costs of re wetting pete lands and by new machinery. Most farmers will be better off financially if they stick with intensive farming away to make polluted cut a more profitable it could be that governments start paying for the climate benefits that re whether people and provide or start charging those farmers who keep their people and drain this could help get more farmers interested in the idea of polluted culture. And its, and by mental benefits about 300000 square kilometers of crop land. Thats the size of italy need re wealthy globally. And the techniques that we thought of, they give us a great way of doing that, whether you bring the pete lamp back to their natural status or use pollute culture to fond them. Well lets continue our tour of environmental extremes and head to i see alaska where fishing fleet, sorry, experiencing a surprising knock on effect from. Well, the van, as a result of russias invasion of ukraine, the u. S. Has banned in ports of russian caught fish providing a boon to sigo. As in america, northern most state. However, russian trawlers are seeking ways to stay in business. Carolyn, achieve more reports on a seaborne battle for americas fish market. A salmone season has begun in south or in alaska. Its the most important season of the year for the Fishing Community here. Fish and seafood are alaska main commodities. Vast majority is solar domestically. But until recently, many products also came from russia, an unsavory competitor on the domestic market. But there is a new optimism in the fishing village of cordova. Ah, the fishing industry, these great, this you. And i hope the prices come in better, you know, is, is a good market, good fishing and as a team the man, this is great, is though the whole world is hungry and this found pro bay lot of food for a lot of different states. Lot of Different Countries alaskan fishing companies, one to see a ban on wash and seafood. Many point to how russia band u. S. Fish and child fish way back in 2014. After washington criticized moscows annexation of crimea. Alaska has been fighting ever since and demanding a ban on c foot imports from russia into the United States. Now they applauded bidens decision and fishermen in places like court over ready to fill the void. Life revolves around the fishing industry and the small town of cordova for the last 5 years. The company 60 north of specialize in wild salem on the focus here is unsustainable. Fishing, fishing only takes place when its approved by the authorities this year. The catch of white salmon is larger than it has been for years. Thats why people here have been working around the clock for weeks, with workers putting in up to 16 hours a day at the factory. Ah, yes, it is honestly, a really great time. It can be a really long day and really long hours, so we try to have a good time or out here. We place the music and everyone chat has a good time. The mood is good to work. Its hard because everything is done by hand. The man is only increasing for its been, its been rough. These in its been a lot a lot. The mancy, ive been increasing. Definitely. Yeah. God, since ive been here. Yeah. Theyre gone. Pop popping up and you know more and more, more fish in the bar. They were buying more fish, more demand, more work. Yeah. More happy life. The company mainly serves the us market rush and producers were an unwelcome competitor because they could offer much cheaper prices. 60 north couldnt compete. Now, things to us sanctions against russia. The company is arguing its chances of increasing its market share. According to Seal Research were, were pretty excited about this. And then this is just one of these things that opportunity is going to go by because of the one, the economic culture of where the United States is out right now. And then of course, then with the surplus of fish. In fact, there is a surplus of white town when its out there in alaska this year. But the problem is that russia hasnt really gone from the market at all. Weve ever says we have a lot of product that is banned from russia, but yet they have an inlet where they can go to produce and china and then bring it in that way. And its somewhat confusing. Ive not clearly labeled. And i think that one of the things that we