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tv   Preserving Peatlands  Deutsche Welle  May 9, 2024 9:30pm-10:01pm CEST

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next, on d, w the, the new still easy. sometimes even menissi. then you got dogs a scene is don't places they often the setting to method mysteries. it was 50 tails . human being destination home, centuries, with powerless consequences. absolutely turn the systems from the 6 carbon sources of carbon. and so that's going to really exacerbate and potentially climate change. do you need ecosystem store vast amounts of carbon,
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but the potential has been overlooked for quite some time. these lands are like loans of the world. we could say that the, the so the whips of life and these width so flies around to stretch it new methods could save the world's peak lands as well as cell plus the the strips of green in rural germany. something is growing here, the could help whisky bones. most of germany's wetlands have been drained and are unrecognizable. and course a gallery, m a t is crates, want to show what's being lost and how to get it back then. but the 3
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that was quicker than i thought was they regularly take samples with the pro on the 23rd of school to heighten, on to the snow it down. it looks good, but everything above where its dry is low. so with the, when the people get drained, it begins to decompose, you can see that in the psalm hole in the upper layer where it's so doc, there's lots of the composition with that says it's almost caught say, who was this? the composition worries, the ecologist, pete is made up of dead plants which sunk into shallow, slightly, a city closer. this oxygen poor environment doesn't allow the debris to decompose the carbon stays port. the draining exposes the layers to oxygen, which stops the composition and finds it to the element. it has been released as comp and dioxide. and what wasn't more detailed and keep lands on like probably more. and then they can do so much. this is the bio diversity alone is very special
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and they told me to call that and sing the surfaces. that's why it's so important that we protect shortlands and don't just living ones, but also the ones we drain and that tom grace, a gallery, has been functioning for pete lance for 20 years. she focuses on former bulbs, which she know her new studies, but also works to restore through re wishing. but it can only work is the farmers who live off the land agree. germany has around 1800000 hectares of peat land, an area of roughly the size of saxony, 98 percent has already been drained, mostly to make way for agriculture draining is a climate disaster because it makes cop and sources of ancient calvin sinks paisley and smell contribution about 70 percent of germany, c o. 2 emissions. by comparison, national air traffic contributes just to 0.15 percent, almost 50 times less grace a god, a wants to to and these climate chillers back into climate save us. together with
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local farm is a difficult and muddy tossed. the she and her team of researching how crops could be produced on the wetlands for the christ found mice sent out the did you find it? can you know? yes to 62. they find spectrum most at this measuring station most may seem underwhelming, but the story green plants could help save the planet. these are incredibly useful for what she calls polluted culture. this comes from the top comes from parlors which are lots and for us as well. them full motion, so agriculture on when both land so small and vice versa. got a study biology and was intrigued by this most as even as a student, the usefulness was the whole 9 at the time. she's currently working on an
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instruction manual for polluted culture. if i don't want to do science, that just ends up in a drawer, alpharetta i want to be using, and this is a whole new kind of agriculture, of a system that could revolutionize how we grow plants piece is now used everywhere in soil for home gardening. or cultured plants by professional guidance centers and for commercial vegetable feels hunger for peace is hosting our wetlands. she wants to replace the peat use in plants, so it was both most growing, most 1st needs to become more efficient. the team is testing machines for maintaining most fields. it's precise work because this they only want to remove the upper layer and preserve the precious volt below this sample, just put the lab for each real heavy
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of this polluted culture system was blown at the gloss. solve my us into, which is we, chris at gouter, examines his favorite plant. this, this here at the top most b, this is the pete most volumes. we want to try it fast and then weigh it so that we know how much a farmer could have used and on foot by the on the socket applicant to spectrum . most of us have unless potential for use implants. so we'll talk most the most is benefit the climate flight and fall from us. they can replace piece and hold a culture in a renewable material, replacing a fossil fuel that's the cost of on in. and secondly, pete lens would be requested to cultivate the most of which would mean that the
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high emissions that currently come from drain people. and with the, i think in the lab to go well as through the 1st few trials, she's confident that they can develop a system so much production. this is where the ecological economists, sabina fishman, comes in the job. the germany's most important pete land research center is to ensure that projects have a solid economic foundation both for the vice of the 12, most places. new areas will be needed to grow public also. and we're talking about hundreds of thousands of heck to is 9. so we'll need to convince farms and landowners, plus the investment costs to high investor tons costs, which is why the next total for the researches is funding bias. or perhaps i can convince a goddess into the north. finland has youtube's most extensive paid lands,
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home to red animal and plant spaces. but these bio types also died as i was stripped mind for fuel or drains to make room for forest plantations. taylor most and then has been working to mitigate the damage. he's a climate scientist and activist, and as a globally respected scholar, he also contributed to the you in climate change reports. he has an especially strong bond is one pete land and he's nice, he's been land, it almost feels like lino. so it is kind of a person, you'll see some kind of a presence here. for example, this would piece that i'm now looking at. may potentially be 2 or 3003 years old. i often want to think that these lines are if the memory of in love with all those to him and his non profit snow change mean and so a wouldn't exist as it does today. it's one of around
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a few areas across the country that have been successfully rewarded. and it's new. the 46 year olds, home village. so key or is it has told us everything we have needed to learn in order to make this a national program. and from that we started to learn and the test and innovate. how can you restore and lodge beat land system? a huge projects of a 110 hic tents. piece has been harvested, he has fuels to decades. the money, just somebody took the landscape and points and the results. it was severely impacted by human decisions for economic gain and a to production that had disastrous results. there was a freeze that event and of course these impacts to climate that because they are active comp and sources. even after the mining has stopped payroll, most students,
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home village also still the fix to in columbus is down stream. you know the magic kind and it's a fisherman and most students, long timeframe. if you just choose one piece of wood clean, so i'll add more later to stop being so skeptical. name is clifton. the 69 year old could only watch is pete mining nearly destroyed. the nature and his livelihood, and not to die. i saw fish lying dead along the show me a list of floating life i see in the water. i'm sure it was terrible. i was in tunnel charlotte room mostly kind in the entire village, full back. they sued the energy company with the help of general most tenants, environmental non profits, and one the 1st time and finish history that local successfully colton. piedmont, in the snow change purchase in and so to be we
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welded the it is vital to listen and understand the best part of what a, not a and others are telling us. because take one thing potentially one element which is missing wisdom. what is that right thing to do? we have ample choices of different pathways. offers funding, but always having the comb bus and map on the right choice the so it's a model for damaged areas of the and the project has been carefully documented to insure it states that way the, the afternoon. paul can build a little them across this wasteland. another one from timber and then the big
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then environment list a list huge. i'm a boost call from spain is measuring greenhouse gases emitted by the soil. the natures slowly but surely reclaiming the area of to decades of exploitation. the measurements show the size is being worth is the drain peak land me said 400 tons of c o 2 annually. but the restore eco system now pulls as much as a 100 tons of c o 2 a year from the atmosphere. the, just a few kilometers away, the re welding process includes killing nature. thousands of pines and spruce is need to be cut down to help with 10 whitland to health. that may seem counter
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productive for pete lance, or actually fall better at storing comp and then trace and compare to help with switch climate goals. we say that we have 5 to 7 years to act, to stop leasing from this all based masons. and we are working on every part of that nationally important, the very best estimate and it's catchment to restore it back to health. the excavation has to feel own drainage channels to re, with the bulk a difficult task for pete land that covers more than a 100 hectic. but it's the only way for water to stop collecting again the most and develops a taylor my plan for each whitland. you have to be very carefully thinking where
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we're putting the actions and what simple, how deep or big the dams should be enabled that right, well the level the painstaking work has now being transitioned into a unique system for restoring wetlands across finland, snow change of a story about 66, rewarding projects through 2023 finance, through donations and invest as a demanding mission, but also highly rewarding. wisdom is extremely happy about nature's return to lean, and so my good sleepers that have long disappeared have returned along with more than 200 of the animal and plant species. these place shows that with the assistance coverage and scientific commitment, we can still have a chance. and that's the biggest message we can tell from the. so a message from your lips final to the world. the
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2nd germany, the researches from gross fault on how those off to find out how to have both moss has been faring as plants, soil. grace had godek and so the new fishermen, a curious to hear the results with ty 5 reads, most the research department at the lowest sites and the chamber of agriculture has put the scientists and recommendations to the test and cope with not too much. gotcha, tomato pounds. about 3 pounds as a grow and 100 percent political to substrate talking. but this is the 1st time i've seen that it's, you know, really exciting and very encouraging for long because it, for a multi point that's the geraniums or tomatoes. the result show plants love the pete free, so will research manager michel e mail believes in the polluted coaches. substrates says that are also suitable for
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commercial green houses. is our stuff to see a e d audit. this material is ideal. this computer's great property. you yourself could, you know, nice. the cost is a problem. zoe, the on the right now on the comb, compete with pays economically concrete. and it's just too expensive to grow is, is, i don't know to toilet is much gotten. some potential is huge. what pete is usually use implant soils in germany replacing it would require growing mos in around $40000.00 tech chairs. just re wishing a small fraction, 2.2 percent of germany's pete lands could meet the demand. great, dowdy types, farmers who also see the potential movies you want us not to reach. does my vision is that many you agree and use to lose a culture most up straight to to cope side of that? many farmers say, yes you and that's what this is, you know ton, it's a familiarity that makes sense here to see what this information feed, lance can yield more than most of as in mitchell built wisdom,
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pomeranian scientists researching and most of mass plants twice our cat tails are also thought to be promising. the pants of robust and highly 1st autonomy. here we are. most levels of originally checks to determine when cat tails happiest as safety h as in a medium. 58. okay. okay. and what paid lens tie for grove. ethan, when is the drought and they can cope with heavy rain plants, a sturdy and an ideal building material on how to turn this off and cause you to see what people want. so construction. so insulation materials structure without gaps which insulates well in this very light. you just stick. these walls can also be used to make load bearing elements. this is some of the construction sector have
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already seen the potential of the robust plan. this is tanisha. i am plus demo d, i thought that this isn't blowing installation material, which it can be used like cellulose flakes or would find them in um, doesn't quite enough. these poke pull. you can still see the shape of the leaves and it has an airy structure. and is it solid one? has a high load bearing capacity and can insulate at the same time in class had dish um easily and the researches now and these pioneers and policies that support them and progress is already being made. the gym government began supporting community culture in 2023, hoping protect piedmont park, the front desk us and a polo sciences. i'm convinced that this is a great opportunity to create synergies between people and protection. sustainable agriculture and the supply renewable rule material and nicole,
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and that's what we need to address climate change in creating livable future calls to help them. so when you collaborate to is just a few kilometers away. harvest time in the re way to people in the farmer hanging for each close move grass show. i'm just checking to see if that fails. so top most of during the recent right, you had some target which has been harvesting more grass from these fields. if we some of the 8 he is, his father begin the process. and now the 29 year old is tony more more to both finding the experts in gross fall shift some of the things so this is my new move. please tied to this as well. so i can contribute to the crime and apply to how i solve this problem that came up use results as most of the
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standard i had to give them and help our climb and on. so this is my chose to do something for this small area that i call 100 to these a strip. can i my 1st issue, we will find sources besides note to 20 bit by bit, the points where you wasted 2 thirds of the farmland. they decided to become polluted. culture farm is at their own risk. have yet to receive any special subsidies. the sky. yeah, this is the products that's highest and most this wasn't the subsidized. and so we had to work. he can normally from the very beginning the combustion was the most feasible and quickest to implement of a body. and as a result, when my prime indoor took the step to install this heating prompt as a part of the project and how to you a prototype and send it to load for you as portal to look at a high low to the full phones around 4000 barrels of dried blue cross h e, and he's buying a mess. heating plant. the carbon footprint is negative because burning the carlos
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doesn't commit more c o 2. and it's still worth while growing. and the re wishing folk absorbs additional common sense. what central, how does a lot of these and the guy spied meyers said, it was always very generous with his knowledge of use of this and stuff which allowed us to make scientifically funny sound decisions here. this would have been impossible. without them, they helped us feel confident that this was feasible uh, best of luck with the entire town now. benefits from the innovative family business . they have bio mass heating plants, supplies of school, central office buildings, and about 500 departments with affordable hate, even amidst an energy cost system. in motion, restoring a peat land became a win win situation for the climate farm as the local population. or what's the latest thing you guys, researches in the us are also looking at how important piece plans off of the climate biologist naturally griffith and soil scientist, randy coca using these glass towers to research what
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a global climate policy should look like. and to this, the biologist and climate scientists appearing into the future. and this is just an experiment to demonstrate that this is how it might look 50, a 100150 years now of the my cell, experimental forest, us government research station in northern, minnesota. the facility has an annual budget of about $5000000.00, making it one of the most expensive climate experiments in the world. not really griffith it's. i've seen a ground breaking project on how flat to pray and people hands will decompose the climate change it's samples have been very good bags and we bought them get a better sense of what's going to happen to these eco systems under future climates . they're very critical ecosystems for a carbon does carbons been deposited over a thousands of years. and so it's really important understand what's going to happen under warming. today's really high carbon needs assistance,
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cocoa increases. he's up to pete, simulating the different climates in each class. how. how will the book behave at 9 degrees of global warming, or the bags provide crucial clues experience for 7 years pretty decompose, and we have a lot of other bags buried in the seat here. the high, the temperature, the oil, the organic components and the pete decompose and the more harmful c o 2 gets released. a disaster for the clock or mean really increases the rate of the composition and the feet when. and so we absolutely turn the eco systems from things of carbon and sources of carbon. and it's an additional source of carbon dioxide and nothing that must do that's really not well accounted for these global models that predict our future climate. they also helps develop and optimize
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scenarios to better assist the impacts of climate change. fail here for another 3 years. back back in the ground. randy pope, i helped establish the research station more than 10 years ago. the 58 year old isn't just researching the future. he also wants to help shape. it's the biggest thing that we're learning is you know, that we can affect how these eco systems behave now and in the future. and if we want to mitigate or limit the ability of our eco systems like plans to influence climate change, then you start thinking about doing some things. now the findings to raise the awareness of pete lands at the highest political levels. and they are feeding into the you in integral of mental panel on climate change,
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or i pcc reports we're very proud of the impact for make and, you know, i'm, but now it's to this community you know, 20 years ago was really the critical importance of these eco systems, and so appeal on this for a relatively under study, but the current research is going to impact and get to the decision makers at all levels of government. start thinking about the product and service. these ecosystems the scientific evidence shows that pete land protection equals climate protection, and the potential is unknown, but low pete lands coverage is 3 percent of the world's land area. they store twice as much comp and as the world's for us. it may look dangerous or mystical, but these song columns sing champions,
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