How are assumptions around science and migration undermining climate policy?
Award winning author and journalist Sonia Shah talks to Alasdair about her book, The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move.
How to tackle methane in a meat-eating world?
Our guests Anatoli Smirnov and Sabina Assan are researchers at Ember, international data analysts for clean energy solutions in the power sector.
What are the issues threatening oceans in the Pacific?
Bertie talks to Dame Meg Taylor DBE about plastic pollution, nuclear waste, illegal and unsustainable fishing, and loss and damage.
CCS: what are the right (and wrong) ways to do carbon capture and storage?
Bertie talks about the issues and benefits of different CCS technologies with Dr. Howard Herzog, a world expert on carbon capture, having studied it at MIT’s Energy Initiative for over 30 years.
Why are peatlands the “superheroes” of carbon storage?
Bertie talked to peat expert Professor Roxane Andersen about the Flow Country in Scotland, and her research on peatland restoration, monitoring, and fires.
Is climate modelling undermined by economics and ideology?
Alasdair MacEwen talks to Associate Professor Wim Carton of Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies about offset markets, carbon removal technologies, and IPCC modelling.
Does Europe fund illegal Russian logging, and do timber sanctions matter?
Bertie talks to Sam Lawson from Earthsight about a public letter from 120 NGOs calling for a boycott on Russian and Belarusian wood.
Can BECCS really provide negative emissions?
Alasdair talks to Sami Yassa, senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council about Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage.
Should we radically change the way we farm?
Professor Liz Carlisle talks to Bertie about her new book, ‘Healing Grounds – Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming’.
Does bioenergy increase CO2 emissions even more than burning coal?
Alasdair talks to Professor John Sterman about his seminal research that proved burning wood for energy will “increase atmospheric CO2 for at least a century”.