Episodes of Emissions

Christmas Special: All the tips you need for a greener lifestyle

Dec 16th, 2021 44m 15s

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

Human health and climate change

Nov 8th, 2021 42m 28s

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 Lo

Heating and eating in your home, the greener way

Nov 1st, 2021 36m 14s

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 A

The future of planes, trains and automobiles

Oct 25th, 2021 30m 17s

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 l

How can we get CO2 safely back into the ground?

Oct 18th, 2021 32m 41s

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 captu

What does a Net Zero economy really look like?

Oct 11th, 2021 39m 34s