The Climate Question

How can we live with the SUV?


Listen Later

Lockdown saw historic drops in global emissions in every sector, except one: sports utility vehicles, or SUVs. They are among the best-selling cars in markets around the world, from India to China, South Africa and Germany. But these vehicles pollute much more than a normal sized car, and require more fuel to move and energy to make. Seen as a status symbol and wrongly thought of as safer than other cars, what can we do to wean ourselves off this polluting vehicle?

Featuring World Service India reporter Arunoday Mukhardji; New York Times Shanghai editor Keith Bradsher, author of High and Mighty: The Dangerous Rise of the SUV; Jillian Anable, Professor of Transport and Energy at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds; and Jim Holder, editorial director, Haymarket Automotive.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

The Climate QuestionBy BBC World Service

  • 4.4
  • 4.4
  • 4.4
  • 4.4
  • 4.4

4.4

165 ratings


More shows like The Climate Question

View all
Global News Podcast by BBC World Service

Global News Podcast

7,585 Listeners

Newshour by BBC World Service

Newshour

1,049 Listeners

In Our Time by BBC Radio 4

In Our Time

5,454 Listeners

In Our Time: History by BBC Radio 4

In Our Time: History

1,880 Listeners

In Our Time: Culture by BBC Radio 4

In Our Time: Culture

613 Listeners

In Our Time: Science by BBC Radio 4

In Our Time: Science

728 Listeners

6 Minute English by BBC Radio

6 Minute English

1,751 Listeners

Learning English Conversations by BBC Radio

Learning English Conversations

1,045 Listeners

Climate One by Climate One from The Commonwealth Club

Climate One

570 Listeners

Discovery by BBC World Service

Discovery

973 Listeners

BBC Inside Science by BBC Radio 4

BBC Inside Science

411 Listeners

Science Weekly by The Guardian

Science Weekly

418 Listeners

The Inquiry by BBC World Service

The Inquiry

743 Listeners

The Audio Long Read by The Guardian

The Audio Long Read

848 Listeners

Science In Action by BBC World Service

Science In Action

336 Listeners

Unexpected Elements by BBC World Service

Unexpected Elements

351 Listeners

CrowdScience by BBC World Service

CrowdScience

477 Listeners

People Fixing the World by BBC World Service

People Fixing the World

245 Listeners

Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast by Persephonica and Global Optimism

Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast

464 Listeners

The Climate Pod by The Climate Pod

The Climate Pod

302 Listeners

You're Dead to Me by BBC Radio 4

You're Dead to Me

3,188 Listeners

Climate Rising by Harvard Business School Business & Environment Initiative

Climate Rising

79 Listeners

Speed & Scale by TED

Speed & Scale

94 Listeners

Cyber Hack by BBC World Service

Cyber Hack

1,619 Listeners

Zero: The Climate Race by Bloomberg

Zero: The Climate Race

228 Listeners