Environment thats what we talk about today hello welcome to eco india im sunk that raghu coming to you from mumbai commercial agriculture it is one of the biggest reasons for deforestation accounting for 14 percent of all the tropical trees fell between the u. S. To power and 2010 according to u. N. Figures in regions like the west on cots in india local farmers are having to cut down trees to make ends meet the support of their agricultural practices but a Community Project is turning pings are bound for the region. Of. The forests around the religion and bludgeon of western india secure to its people especially because of his baby doc agrees they dont only grow old they are also the home of the great horned with the red fruits from the crease. Dr who and 69 year old. Romani are the heads of 32. 00 well it is that on the area they know of the importance of the crees. This trio of horn bills is here from ages and is being respected by our forefathers from generations the age of this tree is not less than 225 years whenever there is any function in the village this is a 1st. That was going on with the Western Ghats a mountainous region running to the south. In former times there was a unique rain forest here not much of it is left many large productive crees would chop down here a few years ago to build the trees to k. And due to economic pressure locals the culprit of the secret the makes things for livestock farming however that in many grandfathers contained precious treasures the fruit of the baby doc a tree known ingredient in the i regret the herbal medicine industry the fear while function has developed a business idea from the locals as the fruits of the crease. One of them is to you can get old roger. He has been a permanent member of the project for it hes. Clearly. Example of reverse migration who was leaving. To do a job as there was no one in the family or arning livelihood at the relist station very present to develop a nature connect on protected me and suggested me for the job of collecting. Job. Creating income for the local its an important concern of the process if they no longer rely on family they dont need to chop down the crease. The fruits are dried and then sorted by the victim of the growing of them and take out the seeds corn binocs among the women is 25 years old devoted. You to promise that i come here to work actual monday with my husband and those who are dependent on us here good to you those eating. Habits and most of them whatever their. Journey and some. Of the fare while back to nature connect project between the locust live from the fruits of the old trees is one aspect that matters to him another one is their contribution to Climate Change defaulters areas that we are saving in the cards sequestering 10000 carbon in one acre so if we say that in the last one year we have saved 2000 acres of forest it translates into c we 200000 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide getting released in the in the atmosphere. Of the flutes have been dried. To make model which i use for. A mixture of was used in i would think medicine i mean one in 20 communities make their living from harvesting processing and crossposting different income last year alone around 100000 year. About 1000 of the old trees could be seen from before the station and that is another property of the whole bit. It nests in the branches all be talking. Here to intensively for the station the population of these rare birds had declined enormously thanks to the project the population is now recovered we found that the out of our nesting fire took 28. 00 mystic sites around 23 of the things i wear on the tree will be in the nobility class so it was very clear that if we are going to save the beleaguered trees we have saved the greed on those the project not only ensures that crease are protected from being cut down the survival of the baby doc increases taken care of by the whole bill itself. As a socalled farmer of the forest it ensures the seeds of the food spread again. Planet and it dont always go hand in hand many a time history has. Come from investing in not. Conscious companies seem to be. More. Assured that their money is being human in a socially and environmentally responsible. 20th 2010 drilling rig exploded in the gulf of mexico leading to the Largest Oil Spill in history. Course revealed that the attempts by oil company b. P. To cut costs and maximize profits could lead to the disaster. Taking its toll on. The incident illustrates the frequent conflict between the planners and shareholder profits. But what if it didnt have to be this way. Very stressed around it outsourced. For this scandal some investors that sold their b. P. Shares concerned about the companys record on environmental social and governance issues so they avoided the stock crash that followed the oil spill. These 3 metrics are now called e s g and theyre defining a new way of investing that promises to reconcile climate and profits. But can they deliver. As cynical as the financial world might seem ethical considerations of always played a role in investment decisions. The origins of responsible investing trace back to 1758 when some religious groups precipitous members from profiting from the slave trade. But the modern era of responsible investing really evolved in the 1960 s. Together with the Boycott Movement it started with the boycotts of companies to do business with apartheid south africa that was really the genesis i think. And then it kind of grew up along with the Green Movement through seventies and eighties and kind of going through the great move of tobacco stocks removal of firearms manufacturers removal of Nuclear Weapons manufacturing is all about excluding companies this exclusion strategy is called divesting and despite the initial excitement it led to mixed results. However according to a modern good political theory hurting your bottom line a little bit and you have to sacrifice some financial returns. d vestments remove entire sectors like energy into bacco from investors portfolios when a portfolio is less diversified its risk goes up. 5 the 1st of such funds for example has historically underperformed the market but big money is now betting that this will change in his 2020 letter to c. E. O. s larry fink the chairman of blackrock the Worlds Largest front manager came right out and said climate risk is investment risk. But i dont think there is a choice between plan and profit. From the extreme metrics that youre scoring companies on you look at anything or is this really any s. G. Thing or is this just Good Business are you producing are you wasting resources or wasting resources back to the bottom line or that brings the rate back into big business. Screening companies for the s. G. Criteria has proven an effective way to anticipate and avoid scandals capable of wiping out share prices for example intervene yesterday mutual funds they had to hold folks why. For a long time because there were questions around the governance structure of the company. Disallowed those e s g phones to avoid the stock crash that followed reasonable use emissions cheating scandal. Of their cars with Cheating Software to make them. Green companies are also better prepared to face the growing threat of Climate Change. These factors are reviving the appeal of green investment. Sustainable funds are attracting new assets at a record pace. The real question then is not whether Green Investments can make profits the question is whether they can be called green in the 1st place. This only is a definition problem with got yesterday the lack of a Central Standard is an issue so company could in theory score very well on these. Rankings but on the other hand a very large negative textuality hes on the environment. And even if a company is genuinely green buying its shares may not translate into creating an impact. The theory of change behind Sustainable Investing is pretty straightforward. Green Companies Receive the more they can pursue their sustainable goals. Ringback vestments are unlikely to financially starve the fossil fuel industry for this strategy to be effective it must permanently reduce a companys ability to Access Capital when capital is divested theres also creates an opportunity for other investors to buy shares at a lower price when this happens the stock price can quickly bounce back to its previous level without impacting the companys valuation ready ready. Its not enough it simply isnt because the effective tiny. Investments are not a magic formula. Very often what is advertised to sustainable is just. Greenwashing. Other cases impacts can be achieved only by sacrificing some profit. In investing in a highly profitable nongreen companies and then diverting the profit to environmental causes would be more effective. But similar calculations miss a more important point. It is tough to actually measure and. Your conscience is clean you dont profit from an activity. Many people simply no longer want to invest money at the expense of the environment and that alone is an important step forward and. Now investor pressure is forcing companies to reconsider their Carbon Footprint one me if this is carbon credits that is by being for projects that reduce Carbon Dioxide emissions in other parts of the world in 20 the wall and Carbon Offsets market was worth it to 5700000. 00 now for maybe this opens up new business opportunities. This tropical rain forest has stood for millennia but human beings would need very little time to destroy it driven by the desire to make money. Just like you were i was actually. Underwriting so we do a lot of deals. Done so no heart is heading out to his rain forest in borneo it covers an area twice the size of new york city. Hes bought the rights to the land from the indonesian government for the next 60 years on condition that he protects the forest. I always believe that the environment has a value just like treating it like a real estate i thought that owning a rain forest you know and have a better appreciation on value compared to Real Estate Companies pay having to protect the forest like volkswagen the Worlds Largest automaker buys carbon credits from her tonneau to compensate for the emissions put out by its cars neither she nor b. W. Are willing to say how much they cost per ton a sense discussing prices openly would be damaging to business and critics of the trade in Carbon Emissions say it allows companies to greenwash their image even as they continue to contribute to Global Warming we always said theyre going to grow up and lets try to protect the rainforest for the reality is the past 20 years all the rain forests are pretty much gone and certain countries is because we believe that you know research into other uses. Paper for human and for humanity needs but i think. Saying that you can still protect the rain forests and make money for the company and also giving benefit the community while protecting the environment then that should be a new model going forward. Just a few kilometers outside the protected sound the rain forest has disappeared here wildfires tore through the area after a prolonged period of heat but many times its International Companies to clear the forest in order to sell timber to gain grazing land for cattle or to set up palm oil plantations. In his area hard tonneau has set up a cutting gunman tie a project to show others how the forest can be used to make money without destroying it in the process. He says the money from Carbon Emissions trading can help with that. Hard tonneau has invested in initiatives like this school which provides instruction on how to climb a coconut tree for example. Many of the people who have now gained jobs through hard tonneau previously earned their living selling temporary feel now theyre learning how to extract sugar from the south of the coconut tree financed by companies in europe. Or coconut tree for the 1st time i was scared. But slowly the fear disappeared. And now i want to climb 20 coconut trees a day. And i think all you have to cut wood in the forest for a living. The work was dangerous i only did it for my family. Needed the money. Investing in people and the local community is the goal but its not the only goal projects like this are good for his customers image cars made by a company thats investing in people and helping to preserve the rain forest are likely to sell better. But when he 1st started out it was by no means clear that a Big Corporation like me w. Would be interested in a small project in borneo. We finally make profit we actually start having sales to. Have 0 revenue and we just have to believe in the. Heart isnt claiming that his emissions trading project will fundamentally change how we manage and preserve our natural resources. And back when he started Climate Change wasnt receiving the attention it is today. The concept of Carbon Trading was still in its infancy. Partow took a risk starting out small but with a vision. And for him its paying off. Much of the economy is based. But that often has a negative impact on the. Economists believe believes the b. Should be looking at the value of each other and how we can work with the natural to build a sustainable economy. We created our economy on the model of the hamster. We are not a hamster growing doubling in size every week but every few years or whatever. The model of the economy has to be what is the economic equivalent of a caterpillar turning into a few but then you go out of life youve got to look to nature to understand what kind of economy works and what kind of economy doesnt were in the kind of economy and the Measurement System thats what. The problem is that the only element of value that you have measuring g. D. P. Is produced goods and services which out of a. Whole lot of other stuff thats happening. The value of the base pollination is more than 150000000000. 00 euros a year thats about 110th of the global agricultural. But of course hes never send you any invoice nature delivers a lot of value into the human Economic System if youre just not measuring these values through. Todays growth is destroying nature is just trying social fabric its destroying human health. So its just trying public words while hes trying to create private welcome and whatever if theres no law which is going to do this why would you want i want to just. One of the key elements of the an economy is that it was the creation of systems which deliver less environmental damage. Things like Sustainable Agriculture which uses more labor is actually rewarding Sustainable Agriculture has also changed and uses water usage uses pollution increases. Land based biased against wrong. And it will result in growth but a different kind of growth is. Green growth. Now green growth is definitely something to aspire to but not always something to live up to 12 history human settlements have eaten into the habitats of other living beings its no different in northern be hot but out on the brink of extinction locals are now coming together to try and protect the regions fish eating crocodiles. Even as hatchlings very easy to recognise with a long thin snout weighing up to 1000 kilograms as the guardiola as one of indias rarest animals its population has declined by around 98 percent since the 1940 s. Some of our senhor conservationist at the violet trust of india has studied these reptiles for years. Yes. There is a big part like structure on the snout on the tip of the snout which is called color so it is different from the other 2 indians found in india and other groups or deviance they conflict with human being but doesnt have any contact with human being. Himalayan tributary of the ganges the gun duck descends into the indian plains at val making a girl from the 4 years it was impossible to monitor and research the habitat and population of the carriers because social unrest in the region held scientists back. Our own 2007 after the situation relaxed a study showed that only 200. 00 surviving creoles remained in its entire distribution range prompting the i. U. C. N. To recognize the species ask critically endangered at many places pipes and local people the. So these are the reasons behind declining populace and that even the most important reason is it was enough time to banks the dismissal of. The nest. And it affects the populace. A dam is causing the erosion of the banks each time the gates are open the stored water flows into the river causing a fast current the w. T. R. Team is trying to coordinate with the authorities to regulate the release of water at least during the breeding time. But other work also has to be done. Are considered relatively harmless they eat only fish once found in the region from pakistan to myanmar now they are only found in India Bangladesh and w. T. R. Knows Community Involvement is essential in protecting them. Local fisherman here monitor the reptiles and their nests. Yeah something tells me and im not they are on with their canelo we were asked to check on creole nests and whenever we sport anything we call the environmentalists and inform but he said to keep looking until all new findings. Are there for the year there were a lot of hunting. Once the nest is identified it has shifted from the riverbank to a safer area guardiola eggs typically take about 70 days to incubate the fisherman keep an eye on the eggs until the babies ariels hatch and reach the water. In 2014 the w. T. R. Released satellite carry out were just still in these waters now which is about preserving their habitat. Plan. Last year we moved a proposal in the state board for wildlife to notify a critical area of about 10140 kilometers of the river i was up on the race that is a means giving it a status of a protected area if you give it the status of on the race and its up it will involve locals in quandaries and plus there wont be any Land Use Change in that he was the banks so it is going to be a good estate it is going to be a long time can the reason you know activity on the recent acts and for population in the going to be what the conservation efforts are helping the species to bounce back to do these deep waters who are one of the largest populations of cardiology again but balancing the needs of the local people with the requirements of graveyards and other of i like will be a long term challenge. Now i will admit that the systems we have created as a species make it very difficult to choose them slowing the involvement of a making more money for many of us but even the smallest conscious choices we make like using a reusable coffee mug amending a leaky tap when orientals more or more towards mending the imbalance i will leave you with that cotton see you next week please stay safe and big good care of yourself and your loved ones go back. Under the sea. Or. Just above. One who will be part of future living spaces. Rising sea levels or threatening coastal areas im swimming cities the touted as the solution. To what sounds like Science Fiction has long been a reality. Waterworld. In 15 minutes on t. W. We know this is very time for the coronavirus is changing the world changing our lives so please take care of yourself good distance wash your hands if you can stay at how we do w. 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