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Cape Town, a city without water
Will the oil and gold rush be followed by the water rush? The world population is growing steadily and so is agriculture. As a result, the demand for water is exploding all over the world. Pollution and climate change exacerbate this problem. By 2050, at least one in four will live in a country affected by chronic water shortages. This is arousing the interest of financial giants who want to make a profit out of water and are already investing billions in it today. ARTE gives an overview.
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We've got an answer to our request about visiting a hemp-farm. They told us that they don't have enough time to show us their hemp-farm because they have a huge amount of requests from other students as well. But they said we can send them our questions for our interview and they will try their best to answer them. Our next steps will therefore be:
- sending them our questions per e-Mail
- start to collect their answers as well as our informations and findings
- prepare the documents so we can publish our project as soon as possible
Joël Burlet, David Zenger, Oscar de Ruijter
Since the beginning of the week, global warming has been discussed in Madrid. It's all about CO2 emissions, certificates and above all a lot of money. (5 Dec 2019, woz.ch)
EN - By 2050 at the latest, Switzerland should not emit more CO2 than is absorbed by the environment. This was decided by the Federal Council within the framework of the Paris Climate Agreement. This is also demanded by the glacier initiative submitted last week. More...
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How much food gets wasted in our supermarkets?
We want to find out how much food get wasted in our supermarkets and how we can reduce food waste.
We will interview owners of supermarkets about foodwaste in their shops. We will search solutions how we can reduce food waste in supermarkets and as well at home. We will research why exactly so much food get wasted. Is it because the best before date or is it because we have too much food?
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Nathan & Anja