Transcripts For DW Business 20240713

Glad you tune in for today show we will be taking on a trip all over all continents as we shed some light on the environmental threats faced here in ethiopia we will see how the Church Communities are working to protect their local chief relation. And i will show you what south africa is doing to better protect its coasts and seas. We will investigate why slashing and burning homes the soil and crop yields in the long term. Did you know that Church Congregations in ethiopia play a cute role in Environmental Protection it all started when deforestation began to deplete the countrys indigenous local stuff it was a congregations up for to preserve their local forest im into india especially diversity africa when to stop going down there we found a community with more than 30 different kinds of trees that are still growing it turns out its not so hard to do. For almost 25 years but governor merriam got it as a loss he has been tending to his Church Forest some 200 monks living here in this altar thats the way he took community in northern ethiopia for centuries monks up preserve the forests around their churches taking care of the citizens as being a spiritual ritual for members of this faith view the natural forest as a symbol of heaven. The ministry hands 183. 5. This is on and on the ship of the ministry we are committed to date and some more to transfer our history and heritage we have god from our fathers and a responsibility to plants and protect new trees whenever the old trees die. Laughing that is and then thanks to their efforts many church compounds both of large indigenous trees such as the white pier or the iron tree earlier africana for example some of the trees around here are 100 years old. If your pea has less than 5 percent forest cover down from 40 percent in 1990 trees are cut down for charcoal and firewood and to make way for farming and grazing land but to protect the church flores have remained intact the south gone the region has an estimated 1500. 00 tiny charred forest. The field be an altar dog still why he do churches establish a commission to help further conserve and. Keep floor walk or is in charge of Forest Protection in the community they dont want to force their kid in the church therefore we have to. First we have to maintain. Well to protect the Church Forest itself and secondly we have to replicate the experience of the church to our community. The monies have created new partnerships with local communities and schools tara gave them a Primary School the next to the ministry is one of them. Were supported to collapse with different farmer tours and various forests siddhis and. City biggest by themselves and drama and poetry sessions a part of the environmental education. In the 2 years since the Church Community project was founded they have managed to create 3 plantations in the school grounds. Theres a lot of bad luck with that they have learned that in the trees it is important for life trees to be oxygen and. Also bring green time as well as preventing soil erosion. That my knowledge thought about look at the. Project is always intended to improve the Living Standards of local people so as to reduce over dependence on existing forests resource says. With additional funding from a german protest and Aid Organization 25. 00 women here each received 3 sheep. Some have since grown 2 heads of nearly 10 animals i used to say i collect said and sold some buy food for my family that is what my livelihood depended on but now a system thats big judge believes that seems among accepted and respected by the community that conservation activities will serve as role models. But even with their efforts convincing people here to preserve the forest instead of creating new farmland remains a challenge. We are the receiving end of a lot of pollution in the world its a noncompromising statement by kerry an artist an environmental activist killed corps. Like maybe in africa hes angry and appalled by the extent of pollution or where he lives as a result the 56 year old has turned tons of waste metal into office so we visited him in this weeks doing your bit. This lion sculpture is made from animal snares once used by poaching in National Parks. These works were created by kenyan artists. He scalps with used to metal Environmental Issues close to his heart. He works with waste from factories. 80 years ago he started off as a welder. In his spare time he fashioned artistic objects. One day an art broker bought them and displayed them in a nairobi gallery. About swimwear cheeky realized he could make a living with his art his works now fetch up to 10000. 00 apiece he also trains younger artists he says that over the years hes turned thousands of tons of scrap metal into account. And how about you if youre also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us a tweet. Hash tag doing your bit. We share your stories. Whenever theres a discussion on the future of energy the word Hydrogen Comes up a lot. There all the less chemical substance is the most abundant in the universe i mean its years could be helpful if we do see in Carbon Emissions and industrialized nations but very quick to. Think that we have all been waiting for in the fight against Climate Change in germany. Deployed against the bank. In the area and production. To some crop is germanys biggest steelmaker producing the metal is a very Energy Intensive process and the c o 2 it emits makes a significant contribution to Global Warming one reason is that coal is used to chemically reduce the iron a word from which the steel is made. In order to extract the oxygen from me or i need a substance that is eager to take up oxygen traditionally carbon has been used for that we add coke and even coal dust to our Blast Furnace. Both are high in carbon. They extract the oxygen from the door and the resulting c o 2 is blown out of the furnace not all. For centuries coal seemed to be the only substance capable of binding the oxygen from. Partizan croque has now managed to make the process work with a different element hydrogen. Hydrogen is very very oxygen hungry so its able to get the oxygen out of the or. And then theres the heat production during the whole process as with carbon you know that the big difference is that when its oxidised the hydrogen only generates water vapor so it isnt harmful for the climate the most if it is. Hydrogen is explosive under certain conditions but trial runs in the Blast Furnace have proceeded smoothly theyre the 1st of their kind in the world the engineers say that the new technique could reduce their c o 2 emissions by 20 percent the Company Plans to upgrade all 4 of its Blast Furnace is here into sport over the next few years and wants to replace them with new ones that run on hydrogen. The Technology Comes at a price though and there are doubts about its viability worldwide. That the center for fuel Cell Technology at the nearby university of 2 sport essen researchers study Hydrogen Production and processing theres practically no hydrogen in the atmosphere which means the gas has to be synthesized but that comes with a bonus. Hydrogen can store Renewable Energy from the wind and sun that is power generated by a Wind Turbines and solar panels. Electricity cant be stored effectively. Grid is into storage medium it comes by but hydrogen produced from renewables can be stored. And which can be converted into electricity at a later date or heat. In another project in germany colognes Regional Transit system is switching to hydrogen for longer bus routes to reduce emissions the green fleet will soon number 35 vehicles the largest of its kind in europe. The buses powered by Hydrogen Fuel cells can cover 3 or 400 kilometers on a single fill up. And theyre certainly more beneficial to the environment than the traditional diesel models. Was the little shit is the main difference is that theyre quieter practically all you can hear of the tires on the road and there is 0 emissions too of course which is an advantage of the new Hydrogen Buses in terms of driving theyre really quite nice and fun isnt it with just. The buses are fitted with a special Hydrogen Tank which is filled once a day while the bus is out and about the hydrogen reacts with oxygen from the air to give water. The Energy Produced by the reaction powers the engine and theres no problem Getting Hydrogen here theyre going to want to over there is that here it cannot sock Industrial Park where they use electrolysis to generate chlorine hydrogen is a byproduct of the process so as a Regional Transit company its very interesting to see this a product that is generated and used regionally without any major dependencies and theres a supply right next to our factory again. Hydrogen as a fuel is currently still far more expensive than regular Energy Sources but with an expanded infrastructure it really could become a Practical Energy carrier for the future. It wasnt all that long ago thats the idea sitting on protected areas to alone nature and wildlife to thrive without human intervention seemed a lot nowadays with 100. 00 marginal want we want them last year the south african government announced the creation of 20 new protected areas and while this is amazing the important for my range savation one young scientist is hoping to find a way to support costs of a short while also enabling the countrys people to benefit for weeks while we time resources. One of south africas older reserves is the Table Mountain National Park marine protected area which was created in 2004. Since then once threatened species of fish and other marine life have been able to regenerate and thrive. The area covers a 1000 square kilometers it includes a few exclusion zones but the rest is a mix of marine environments where people are allowed to catch fish as long as they apply for permits. Sees osa vanda is a marine biologist working on determining which other marine areas should be protected taking into consideration not only ecological issues but also the impact on Human Society Going Forward how i am proposing to design marine protected areas is to incorporate also that those feel as big the social benefits that people can derive from marine protected areas so were not just put taking the Natural Environment but we also protecting the benefit that people can get out of marine protected areas now and in the future some fishing communities are unhappy about the new reserves they say a ban on harvesting ocean resources threatens their traditional likelihoods whether or not that will prove to be the case there might be interesting alternatives archaeological sites have been discovered on land for example in Table Mountain National Park that date back thousands of years caesar says they could become part of protected land and coastal marine areas and could attract plenty of visitors i found that some communities didnt realize that there was tourism potential in the area and that they could switch from harvesting to thumb thing like tourism taking people out teaching people about the area using the indigenous knowledge which people are so hungry for tourists who want to know what the locals know and local sometimes didnt realise that that was an ethic that their knowledge wasnt as several of the new protected areas are far out to sea but the one at simons town is in coastal waters. Its become a popular destination to go scuba diving