those nitrogen compounds and they degrade, they form nitrous oxide. instead of letting them degrade and waste water, we should be recovering, recycling it, turning it back into fertiliser resources to go back into fertiliser resources to go back into fertiliser resources to go back into farming. that s where we can see the saving. just back into farming. that s where we can see the saving. can see the saving. just talking about the pictures can see the saving. just talking about the pictures we re - can see the saving. just talking | about the pictures we re looking can see the saving. just talking - about the pictures we re looking at. the room is filling up behind me. the room is filling up behind me. the journalists the room is filling up behind me. thejournalists are the room is filling up behind me. the journalists are about to get borisjohnson, who is going to give us an update on where they got to with the first a8 hours. many of the leaders leaving their delegations in place
deforestation, whatever they may be, will not be invested in. and there s been an agreement by companies around the world that they will no longer support or invest in commodities like palm oil or whatever that result in deforestation. you ve heard what a big commodity producers have had to say about others. that s a massive step forward, a big change, and secondly the world financial institution have stepped up and said they won t finance companies that get involved in deforestation. so financial institutions worth trillions of pounds will not be supporting deforestation. and the pressure that comes from consumers around the world who will say to those banks, whether it s aviva or barclays, or anyone else if they break that pledge, there will be a
methane pledge and look at why it s important. it is a greenhouse gas is second to carbon dioxide in driving global warming. second to carbon dioxide in driving globalwarming. it s second to carbon dioxide in driving global warming. it s a for 25% of it. it s stronger than c02 in the short term but only lingers in the atmosphere for a relatively short space of atmosphere for a relatively short space of time. atmosphere for a relatively short space of time. curbing atmosphere for a relatively short space of time. curbing it atmosphere for a relatively short space of time. curbing it could deliver immediate effects. you are about to meet methane, the gas that fires your stove, seeps from rotting organic material and bubbles from our stomachs and those of cows and sheep. butjust look what happens when you add a little bit of pure oxygen. methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. each molecule has 120 times the effect. the real difference between methane and carbon
you do? so buy less more likely, less likely, or somewhere in the middle? somewhere in the middle. and what about plastic? plastic, i recycle. i live in a complex with 35 flats. all our rubbish goes down the chute, so there s no recycling. what about a heat pump? they cost between £6 18,000, but the government has said they ll give you a £5,000 subsidy. i never heard of that. well, i was reading about one of those in the paper yesterday. some couple had spent over thousands of pounds for the heat pumps throughout their entire house, and now they re sitting there with their coats on. insulate your home? already done. whosejob is it, margaret, to enforce some of these restrictions if people believe in them? is it up to the individual, or the government? it s both, really. i think there s a lot of people who don t recycle as much as they should.
and covering landfill sites is being announced at the cop26 climate conference in glasgow. the initiative, led by the us and eu, pledges to cut emissions of the gas by at least 30% by 2030. china, russia and india, some of the world s top methane emitters, have not signed up. some of the big emitters need to join the pledge. 50 china, russia, for example. if we are going to achieve those big reductions that we need, then they need to come on board as well. the loss of forests around the world, estimated to be responsible for about 15% of greenhouse gas emissions, has been the subject of this crucial climate summit s first major deal. countries who signed the agreement, including brazil, russia, china and indonesia, represented 85% of china and indonesia, represent 85% of the world s forests. the pledge, and the £15 billion behind it, has been broadly welcomed. but deforestation has actually increased since a similar pledge was launched in 2014, and it is not yet clear exactly how thos