Species like us for example on not threatened but out effect on the planet is fundamentally changing this balance theres more Carbon Dioxide produced by us than the amount that can be absorbed what can we do about this thats what we talk about to be a little welcome this is equal india and on sun. Over the last 100 years our change in lifestyle has meant that few produce and vinnies more and more toxic chemicals into the feet denny for example intermittent power cuts have led to a primitive ration of diesel generators over the years their little contribution to 16 percent of the ambient air pollution in the city a clean tech start up could just it can be reduced this number and make way for clean up. Focus on the shop floor are busy helping solve one of the biggest problems facing new delhi. Indias capital has the quality of any major city in the world in terms of particulate matter concentration residents to their feet the incessant pollution seems inevitable. Every time you step out of your house youre able to find. Or you find yourself in a lot of other people around you. And you find a lot of people suffering from breathing difficulties because this is the pollution in the city we are helpless however. We have gone with our dog and. One of the biggest causes of daleys air pollution is diesel generators vital electricity back up in a city that experiences frequent power cuts when diesel is burnt to generate electricity toxic gases and particulate matter released into the air. Safety limit for particulate matter is 23. 00 micrograms per cubic metre diesel generators cause its density to rise to 300. 00 micrograms per cubic metres. Was founded some years ago to find a solution for this problem. Its very interesting. And he was using a small. Block from the. Exhaust that is essentially what this particular. The shield is a retro fit device that oxidizes the outgoing particulate matter hydrocarbons and Carbon Monoxide from diesel generators. Now. So if you look at how small the. Pointy micron something that doesnt even get. So thats something thats really hard to capture and thats why we spent a lot of technology that could actually capture these micro elements which would have otherwise having to our bloodstreams. When exhaust from a diesel generator enters the the gas contaminants. And Carbon Dioxide the particular is trapped in a filter and converted into. These filters continuously regenerate themselves so they dont have to be replaced. From these. Technologies. From getting it. So far chucker has in store for devices and diesel generators in Big Companies and private households lawyer. In a Large Office Building he owns in daily he hopes his example will encourage others. In august of 2007 that we had. In started here in this building and that was the 1st this pollution in brooklyn we have or didnt have 125. So it all adds up to Something Like 500. 00 a year and then just one installation now the point is that with one installation you cannot have any discernible changes that you can see this is has to be adopted more widely. In late 2019 the Supreme Court mandated and marmont Pollution Prevention and control authority directed a ban of diesel generators during the winter months in the National Capital region and its surrounding areas an indication of how urgent the problem is retrofitted devices like just to shield however are only one part of the solution to meet the target of the National Clean air program which is reducing particulate matter levels by 30 percent by 2024 daily needs many many more innovations. Carbon dioxide is the 4th most abundant gas in the earths atmosphere now if this concentration begins to increase thats when things start to get. Why and how does this happen lets find. The air we breathe is invisible but there are ways of detecting its precise composition. There is composed almost entirely of nitrogen knocks. Carbon dioxide makes of a fraction of one percent but its a fraction thats growing and thats a problem c o 2 is among the primary causes of the greenhouse effect are such a natural process that warms the earths surface. After sunlight passes through the earths atmosphere most of the rays are reflected back up. Some of them reflected back down again by sunlight reflecting particles in the atmosphere but as pollution increases so does the amount of radiant energy returning to earth the heat is essentially trapped and builds up like in a greenhouse but now more than it would do without our activities. 3 quarters of human made Greenhouse Gas emissions come from burning fossil fuels for energy use coal fueled power plants are among the biggest polluters. The Agricultural Sector also produces huge quantities of the gases another prime contributor to greenhouse emissions is industry. Meanwhile the worlds human population continues to grow its more than tripled since 952 an estimated 7700000000 people. At the same time Global Economic growth is that 3 percent a year and that means more Energy Consumption more Agricultural Production and more industry. This in turn means rising temperatures due to the greater amount of c o 2 being pumped into the air. China has become the Worlds Largest emitter of Greenhouse Gases followed by the us india russia and japan. Germany is number 6 on the list responsible for 2 percent of global c o 2 emissions. Its estimate. 90 percent of people in the countries around the pacific have to breed oxic. The reasons are different of course traffic dependence on fossil fuels burning forest to get. In many countries the borning is because it produces large quantities of Carbon Dioxide a young woman pilot has found a solution awarded the rice in her country. After every harvest thailands rice farmers burn off the remaining rice straw and stubble to clear. The acrid smoke carries far and wide on the wind. In the Northern Province of lampung the harvest is underway since early in the morning women have been out in the fields cutting the sheaves with their sickles. Theres a lot of straw left on the field typically a kilogram a kilogram of rice if its left to rot it will release me fame a potent Greenhouse Gas but burning the straw emits a c o 2 and creates fine particulate matter thats harmful to people and the environment. One wants to change things after completing her studies in bangkok she decided to return to her home village and develop an alternative. I mean if were going to. Get patients very hard to. Grow rice and. This is a taste of a long time and the. Saw each burden is very nice that when i come to my home town i dont share in that lie of low rise i find solutions far off. For. Rice straw is not waste to be disposed of but a valuable resource. She pays the farmers the equivalent of 0. 03 a kilo. The golden stalks are brought by the truckload to honey i buy factory. Here destroys chopped up because the air is full of fine straw particles everyone has to wear a face mask. Then the small pieces of straw a mixed with hot water no chemicals are added but the mixture has to boil for 4 hours. That produces a pulpy mess which is then cleaned and dried. From the factory floor we meet up again with the farmers from the rice field. And yes this is a very good thing. It used to be that we had no work after the rice harvest. But with this factory job i can improve my income whether you want to even go to. The pump is used to make biodegradable paper and packaging but machines to process the pulp are expensive so the entrepreneur exports the raw material to india we have the customer because. That asset logic off morning and. And the last off raw material and contact us and they add very interesting you know our product because. Our product and the special feature of the table way is a thin coating of rice starch which helps the product resist greased heat and liquids in a 2 hour test with a salad the dish stayed leakproof. The next day she pays a visit to the city of chiang mai the economic and cultural heart of northern thailand. At Chiang Mai University they also conduct research into rice the auditorium is designed to resemble a grain of rice. Here scientists support thai startups with their expertise. You are one coming one would like to manufacture takeaway Food Packaging made of rice straw in her own factory she hopes it will become financially feasible by 2020 shes especially interested in the research as work on improving the rice starch film so that it takes longer to dissolve. But do people here actually need tableware made of rice straw. As in most cities in thailand life here is largely outdoors the hundreds of Street Vendors and food stands all use disposable containers. If you want to start up your own Production One vendor says and Pay Attention to the sizes of the bowls shouldnt be too large or the customers will think the portions are too small and the price is important one box but peace would be ok. Let me get out of it one bought is the equivalent of 0. 03. That has a lot of coffee shop concepts about reality. Is our eyes light up or you see. This mosque wrong in the past back to us past the encourage. The rest. Of the small restaurant you list but if they make it to. The back in her home village of one common one is visiting her grandparents. And that they yet met her. This is where she started her business a few years ago. She carried out of 1st experiments with rice straw pulp in her grandmothers cooking pots. At 1st her grandparents were far from thrilled is this why they had sent my grandchild to study at great expense in the capital. Oh no i did your doc but meanwhile they have ample reason to be proud of her. And as the saying goes the rice farmers of lump of learned how to turn straw into gold. Because burning it would be a terrible waste. Lets discuss something controversial. For a few years theres been a religion debate about whether on there we should get the plane to travel across cities and countries we know that flee in scores high emissions of Carbon Dioxide and are bad for the environment our colleagues travel to sweden to move to an activist who has given up flying for good and is going into others to do with. 14 and a half hours for changes lets go. Im on a mission to find out more about the no fly movement and how its impacting business and so im heading to the heart of the movement to sweden the long way by train a journey that flying would take less than 2 hours 1st as the train to hamburg environmental activists like cutter tool bag have got people thinking about their contribution to the Climate Crisis and rethinking that flying happen sweets even have a new word for it freaks down a flight shame. Emissions from flying make up more than 2 percent of the global c o 2 total. I really thought we were getting to go on the ferry i cant believe it i didnt think we were going to but the train is actually going to go on the ferry. The train is less carbon intensive the ferry not so much but its a novelty theres so much better than i played. 5 hours and its my trip and im still excited. But now on the bus to copenhagen that feeling is starting to wear thin. The number of passengers traveling by rail in the e. U. Is on the rise Swedish National train operator s. J. Reported almost 32000000 customers in 2018 a record 1500000 from the year before. I never fly it doesnt work cant do it anymore what we do here he doesnt matter. We are. All one. Of those. Hold water its not cheap i can take the. Flight but i dont want to i finally arrive in stockholm 2 hours behind schedule here the no fly movement has given rise to business togs mesta meaning train vacation was launched in january 2019 it started as a Facebook Group the following numbers rose from around 5000 in 2018 to more than 100000 andrea 6 distances on i was 1st saw an opportunity in the tourist affect i think we have to be more like a little bit like the slow slow Food Movement be more press and focus more on the adventure or the trip itself and to be more. Like grasshoppers. Who jump so where everyone go there and its destroyed the Fledgling Company that means Offering Group tours by train. Marketing interrail cards and organizing conferences for train enthusiasms. And travel costs have been kept low in the e. U. But the lack of tax on jet fuel and limited taxes on tickets among other factors cheap flights in europe have shaped a whole generation travel is now an option for almost everyone on the continent. Of a 4500000000 passengers took to the air in 2019 more than twice as many as in 2008. Im eating Stephanie Elam from easy jet he says the airline has reduced its Carbon Footprint by 32 percent since 2000 that means as many people board of an aircraft the less fuel it consumes per person per kilometer we are also flying the most efficient aircraft in the world at the moment we believe we can do more and that goes for all our lines report showed that aqua c o 2 was only. Part of the problem other missions are also harmful the last destination on my trip is. My own hosting gave up flying 10 years ago shes running a campaign to get people in sweden to pledge to do the same in 2020. So far she has more than 14000. 00 signatures. But im not too concerned because i think that what this is about is that the people who sign up they have to feel engaged in this and try to also convince people around them. The bottom line on trains buses and ferries i produced about 82 kilograms of c o 2 less than half what planes on the same trip would have limited i cant promise to stop flying but i can say at least that this trip has made me consider how i will travel in the future. The goal for us is not really to eliminate Carbon Dioxide entirely we cant avoid producing it which is why we need smarter solutions to manage it better a start up in the Southern State of. Helping Big Industrial polluters emissions into something useful now how does that work lets stick. In here has a deep and complicated relationship with coal as a fast developing country it needs a lot of energy and about half the countrys electricity is generated from coal. But the resulting emissions have a Significant Impact on quality and contribute to the Climate Crisis. About a quarter of the Missions IncludingCarbon Dioxide come from industry. In the way it does like. A looking at guttering the goblin dioxide before it is a reason to be atmosphere and dumbing it into something useful. I think it is quite important. That. Theres only so much we can do about this thing industrial emissions. And placing them at an amazing pace. So a lot of wind i draw the other forms but. Theyre just industrial emissions. And we have to think about very creatively what would be their mission in the city of duty caught im sure most companies the 1st in the country to capture carbon on an industrial scale while making a profit its 1st customer is the factory that makes sodium carbonate also known as soda. In addition to sort. Of it and other chemicals it also needs for its production. The company used to have to buy it but now it uses the Carbon Dioxide emitted from its own coal burning boilers during the production process. The emissions elected and return to the blown 1st they are clean of dust and other toxins the toxins to a Sewage Treatment plant. The gas response to the companys proprietary sold and the Carbon Dioxide which then goes directly to the sort of ash production. In the end only. And water vapor in much. If you see thats that. You would have learned if you dont say anything because theyre going to that you were gassed if you were to theyre just going to sneeze in the gas. Much fairly you know you can delegate that if you can use it for making any good because. Theyre going to get it because it is more than 100 percent of you. To do the blonde generates around 175. 00 of godwin dioxide but the soda and the and die plant itself can now be classified as the new crude the soda ash is then sold as a roman d. V. D. Mostly for the production of glass. In the citys developer and glass cloud offices mushroom using. Means a significant decrease in the Carbon Footprint of Office Buildings i think our pieces our Company Think is in believing that its possible to be climate neutral Carbon Dioxide negative or negative but at the same produce product and keep going about the business youre doing. World economies should Resistance Group radical change perhaps Green Technologies that ensure profitability significantly the worlds problematic goblin emissions. Their fries in Carbon Dioxide levels. Inevitable if we dont. 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