Shadowing-Übung: Are carbon credits legit? | Jaye Connolly | TEDxSanDiegoWomen - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit YouTube

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Hi.
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Imagine this.
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For every plume of fossil fuel smoke that goes up into the air, A tree springs up in Africa?
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For 30 years, this has been the bold promise of carbon credits.
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What if I told you carbon credits are crap?
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Would you believe me?
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Okay, good, let's do this.
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Join me on my 10,000 mile journey to the heart of Africa to determine whether carbon credits are a genuine solution or a mere smoke screen.
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Before we dive into carbon credits, let me just share some Africa facts with you.
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Did you know Africa is the second largest continent in the world?
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And it contains Earth's second lung, next to the Amazon, called the Congo Basin.
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And together, these two areas make up our global oxygen production.
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There are 1.5 billion people that live within 54 countries, and the average person makes $1 a day.
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By 2030, Africa will have the largest workforce and suffer the most by climate change created by us in the developed world.
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So let's go dive into some carbon credits.
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Have you heard of them before?
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Yes.
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Okay.
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You heard of companies trying to be net zero emissions by 2030?
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Yes.
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Okay.
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How about your friends trying to shrink their carbon footprint by eliminating fossil fuels, like getting rid of plastic bags or gas-powered cars?
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Carbon credits allow companies and individuals to offset their pollution emissions that they can't do anymore internally.
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And they do this by funding sustainable projects, usually in underdeveloped communities, that either one, absorb carbon, like planting a tree or protecting a forest, or two, by reducing emissions, by using renewables, such as solar or hydropower.
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For every one ton of carbon offset, a carbon credit is generated and issued, similar to a stock.
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Carbon credits are traded on an ever-booming marketplace worth over $2 trillion.
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I refer to this as the climate economy, where environmental sustainability intersects with economic growth.
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Last year, an eye-opening article revealed that 90% of all forest-related carbon credits were worthless.
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In one particular project in Africa, companies innocently bought these worthless carbon credits to reduce their emissions, to offset them, and it generated over $100 million of sales for a climate company.
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The article went on to state that 30% or $30 million of those sales went to the very African community striving to protect the forest.
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Okay, I thought, bad for the climate, bad for the companies, but good for the communities, right?
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What I discovered was a little bit different.
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And to be clear, I am no climatologist.
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Mm-mm.
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I am a chairman and CEO of a technology company.
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And for the past decade, we've been working in Africa, deploying technology to strengthen their economies.
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Learning that majority of these projects were happening in Africa, it hit me hard.
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And this is when my professional focus turned to a personal mission.
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So off I set off to my journey to the heart of Africa to determine firsthand how these carbon credits were affecting these communities.
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My first stop was to meet with the local African chief.
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He heads a tribe and a community.
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I shared with him the article, I explained carbon credits, and I told him his community should have received 30 million dollars of benefits.
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You know what he said?
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With that kind of money, this place would look like New York City.
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Instead, we suffer for the basics.
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Food, clean water, jobs, education, fuel, and oh, by the way, no internet around here.
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I apologized to that chief on behalf of that climate company and I told him I would speak up on his behalf and here we are today.
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My second stop was to go meet with the government officials.
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I shared with them that foreign company made a hundred million dollars off their trees in the name of carbon credits.
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You want to hear their reaction?
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Their first reaction was, air is worth that much money.
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And their second one was one of anger that they had been taken advantage of.
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I promised them I would help educate them and accelerate their participation in this climate economy.
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To conclude my investigation, I met with the three key players of this carbon credit ecosystem.
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and here are my observations.
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The first group was the project developer.
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They valued profit over sustainability.
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The second group was the standards governing board who lacked quality standards to actually measure carbon offsets.
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And the third group were the climate investors who lacked oversight as to what was actually happening on the ground.
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Each party assured us that their project positively impacted the environment and the communities, that they followed strict international guidelines requiring ongoing assessments and real-time monitoring.
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Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
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If the system was as rigorous and airtight as they claim, why were 90% of the forest carbon credits worthless?
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and why did the community see so little benefits?
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Carbon credits should uplift, not exploit communities.
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Real change requires complete traceability and transparency.
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We should see clear, verifiable facts about each carbon credit's origin, impact, and benefits, not buried in some thousand-page report with a little 8x10 glossy, a little video.
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And when companies bought these worthless carbon credits, and they did, they need to speak up, and they didn't.
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Climatologist once told me, Jay, carbon capture is easy.
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You can make it traceable.
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You just plant something, it grows, and then you bury it.
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Inspired to dig a little deeper, I went off to Oregon, and there I came across a company that was taking tree waste and making biochar.
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Think of charcoal's eco-friendly cousin.
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The biochar is mixed with manure and creates a rich compost that goes back into the soil for centuries.
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Centuries.
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But wait, not done.
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While this biochar is processing, it creates a lot of energy and it is stored and sold to us here in California.
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Talk about a win-win.
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You got true traceable carbon capture, sustainable energy, and jobs.
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So we're now adopting the same biochar methodology in Africa using their tree and crop waste.
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Who knew a simple solution was a bunch of dirt and leftovers?
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At the end of the day, underdeveloped communities, they struggle a lot, they got a lot of challenges, and it takes every country, every company, hell, it takes all of us to work together to create this green, fair world.
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And navigating Carbon Credits is very complex and we have only scratched the surface.
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But my mission is simple.
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I'm here to educate, drive awareness that leads to a better system.
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On behalf of the Chief and his communities, let's turn these crappy carbon credits into gold for them.
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You with me?
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So here's my challenge to each of you.
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Next time someone asks you to pay to reduce your admissions, treat it as if you're investing in a stock.
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Do your diligence.
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Demand transparency.
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Know every carbon credit's origin, impact, and true benefits.
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And when something doesn't add up and you don't know what to do, I encourage you to speak up.
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Do not be silent, and we will figure this out together.
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Thank you.

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Das Video von Jaye Connolly bietet eine faszinierende Gelegenheit, das Englisch sprechen zu üben, indem es ein relevantes und aktuelles Thema behandelt – die Legitimität von Kohlenstoffzertifikaten. Indem Sie sich mit diesem Material vertraut machen, können Sie nicht nur Ihre Englische Aussprache verbessern, sondern auch Ihre Fähigkeit, über ernste ökologische und wirtschaftliche Themen zu diskutieren. Diese Konversationen sind heutzutage besonders wichtig, da immer mehr Menschen umweltbewusste Entscheidungen treffen. Außerdem ermöglicht es Ihnen, den shadow speak zu verwenden, ein effektives Mittel, um sich mit der Melodie und dem Rhythmus der englischen Sprache vertraut zu machen.

Grammatik & Ausdrücke im Kontext

In Connollys Vortrag finden sich mehrere grundlegende Satzstrukturen und Ausdrücke, die Sie beim Englisch lernen mit YouTube unterstützen können:

  • Fragen stellen: Die Verwendung von Fragen wie "Have you heard of them before?" fördert die Interaktion und kann Ihnen helfen, ähnliche Strukturen in Ihren eigenen Gesprächen zu verwenden.
  • Vergleichende Strukturen: Sätze wie "Africa will have the largest workforce" zeigen, wie man Vorhersagen trifft und Vergleiche anstellt, was für Diskussionen über zukünftige Entwicklungen nützlich ist.
  • Ursache und Wirkung: Ausdrucksweisen wie "companies innocently bought these worthless carbon credits" verdeutlichen, wie man Ursachen und deren Konsequenzen treffend beschreiben kann, was Ihnen beim Englisch sprechen üben hilft.
  • Ironie und Kontraste: Connollys Bemerkung, dass mit den Kohlenstoffzertifikaten und dem damit verbundenen Geld "dieser Ort wie New York City aussehen würde", bringt den Zuhörern die Kluft zwischen den Erwartungen und der Realität näher.

Gewöhnliche Aussprachefallen

Bei der Anhörung des Videos könnten Sie auf einige Wörter stoßen, die knifflig sind oder besondere Aufmerksamkeit erfordern. Dazu gehören:

  • "carbon credits": Achten Sie auf die Betonung der Silben und die flüssige Aussprache.
  • "sustainable": Der Übergang zwischen den Silben kann herausfordernd sein, daher sollte man es mehrmals wiederholen.
  • "emissions": Hier können sich Missverständnisse in der Aussprache ergeben, besonders wenn es schnell gesprochen wird. Üben Sie das langsame und deutliche Aussprechen.

Indem Sie diese Aspekte in Ihren Übungseinheiten berücksichtigen, können Sie nicht nur Ihre Englische Aussprache verbessern, sondern auch einen tieferen Einblick in die Komplexität und die Nuancen der englischen Sprache gewinnen. Nutzen Sie das Video und seine Inhalte als wertvolles Werkzeug, um Ihre Fähigkeiten im shadow speak zu entwickeln und das Englisch sprechen zu üben.

Was ist die Shadowing-Technik?

Shadowing ist eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Sprachlerntechnik, die ursprünglich für die professionelle Dolmetscherausbildung entwickelt und durch den Polyglotten Dr. Alexander Arguelles populär gemacht wurde. Die Methode ist einfach aber wirkungsvoll: Du hörst englisches Audio von Muttersprachlern und wiederholst es sofort laut — wie ein Schatten, der dem Sprecher mit nur 1–2 Sekunden Verzögerung folgt. Anders als passives Hören oder Grammatikübungen zwingt Shadowing dein Gehirn und deine Mundmuskulatur, gleichzeitig echte Sprachmuster zu verarbeiten und zu reproduzieren. Studien zeigen, dass es Aussprachegenauigkeit, Intonation, Rhythmus, verbundene Sprache, Hörverständnis und Sprechflüssigkeit signifikant verbessert — was es zu einer der effektivsten Methoden für die IELTS Speaking-Vorbereitung und reale englische Kommunikation macht.

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