Mercedes Maroto-Valer on making carbon dioxide useful
Jim Al-Khalili chats to a 'solutions scientist' about how to solve our CO2 problem.
How do you solve a problem like CO2?
As the curtain closes on the world’s most important climate summit, we talk to a scientist who was at COP 28 and is working to solve our carbon dioxide problem.
Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer thinks saving the planet is still Mission Possible - but key to success is turning the climate-busting gas, CO2, into something useful. And as Director of the Research Centre for Carbon Solutions at Heriot-Watt University and the UK’s Decarbonisation Champion, she has lots of innovative ideas on how to do this.
She also has a great climate-themed suggestion for what you should say when someone asks your age…
Produced by Gerry Holt
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- Tue 12 Dec 2023 09:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Tue 12 Dec 2023 21:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work.
