Emissions: Impossible?

Kim McAllister is rejoined by the EPSRC's Claire Spooner to look back over the episodes from the series and gather all the tips in one place. Claire also shares her experience of presenting at COP26.How to make sustainable fashion choices, with tips from Dr Mark Sumner, Lecturer in Sustainable Fashion at the School of Design, University of Leeds(listen to episode 2: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1852092/9205895)The food system and its consequences for global emissions, with comment from Riaz Bhu...

Rising temperatures and air pollution have huge implications on human health.In the final episode of Emissions: Impossible we explore the work of the Medical Research Council (MRC) both at home and abroad.Dr Ben Barratt from Imperial College London co hosts with Kim McAllister as they discuss the effects of climate change on our health.Dam Khan from the MRC's Unit in the Gambia discusses the effect of burning biomass on the health of people living in rural communities.Dr Ana Bonell is a medic...

Cutting the energy we use to heat our homes and cook in them is key to reducing the UK's carbon emissions.In this episode hosts Kim McAllister and Mareike Schmidt discuss the new technology projects making a huge difference.Lee Chambers from Active Building Centre, funded by the ISCF Transforming Construction, explains how building a net zero housing development can cost the exact same as a traditional one.Barbara Hammond introduces us to Project LEO, funded by the ISCF Prospering from ...

The UK's transport emissions aren't going down fast enough - so here's what we're doing about it.Broadcaster Kim McAllister and Innovate UK's David Leipziger take a hydrogen-powered journey to find out how cars, planes and trains are going to look in the future. Paul Hilton and Jenny Kavanagh from Cranfield Aerospace (www.cranfieldaerospace.com) explain how they're changing 9-seater airplanes to electric engines powered by hydrogen fuel cells - and it's all starting in Scotland.Will Nock...

In this episode we're trying to clean up the atmosphere with Carbon Capture and Storage - CCS.Executive Chief Scientist at the National Environment Research Council's British Geological Survey, Mike Stephenson, explains that CCS is how we capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, turn it into liquid and pump it back into deep layers of porous rocks.Professor Jon Gibbins, from the University of Sheffield, explains how this works in practice and the successful pilots which have proved its via...

UK Research and Innovation brings you hope for the planet in the form of a nine-part podcast.Hosted by Broadcast Journalist Kim McAllister and featuring experts from across the UK, ‘Emissions: Impossible?’ showcases some of the most ground-breaking research and innovation in climate change. We look at fashion, food, transport, health, space, and more.In this episode we have the opportunity to rip it all up and start again, asking 'what does a net zero economy really look like?'Kim is joined b...

UK Research and Innovation brings you hope for the planet in the form of a nine-part podcast.Hosted by Broadcast Journalist Kim McAllister and featuring experts from across the UK, ‘Emissions: Impossible?’ showcases some of the most ground-breaking research and innovation in climate change. We look at fashion, food, transport, health, space, and more.In this episode we shoot for the stars in asking 'how can we save earth from space?'Space scientist Hugh Mortimer joins Kim to discuss how satel...

UK Research and Innovation brings you hope for the planet in the form of a nine-part podcast.Hosted by Broadcast Journalist Kim McAllister and featuring experts from across the UK, ‘Emissions: Impossible?’ showcases some of the most ground-breaking research and innovation in climate change. We look at fashion, food, transport, health, space, and more.From eating grasshoppers to turning rubbish into fashion, Kim asks “what can we each do to help get to net zero?”In episode 3 Kim is joined by M...

UK Research and Innovation brings you hope for the planet in the form of a nine-part podcast.Hosted by Broadcast Journalist Kim McAllister and featuring experts from across the UK, ‘Emissions: Impossible?’ showcases some of the most ground-breaking research and innovation in climate change. We look at fashion, food, transport, health, space, and more.From eating grasshoppers to turning rubbish into fashion, Kim asks “what can we each do to help get to net zero?”In episode 2 Kim is joined by D...

UK Research and Innovation brings you hope for the planet in the form of a nine-part podcast.Hosted by Broadcast Journalist Kim McAllister and featuring experts from across the UK, ‘Emissions: Impossible?’ showcases some of the most ground-breaking research and innovation in climate change. We look at fashion, food, transport, health, space, and more.From eating grasshoppers to turning rubbish into fashion, Kim asks “what can we each do to help get to net zero?” In episode one Kim is joi...