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Sustainability Director at the firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill makes the case for solutions like algae-based concrete and direct air capture to be used within the buildings she designs.
The materials and methods used in contemporary design are a recipe for what are currently very high carbon emissions. Hannah reflects on whether these are just pie in the sky ideas.
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Mina Hasman, Sustainability Director at SOM
Hannah’s series at Our World in Data on extreme heat
Co-hosts
Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder Stealth AI startup
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Maddie Drury, Series Producer
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Co-hosts
Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
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Founder of Orca Sciences reveals the surprisingly easy fix for contrails in aviation. As an incubator for other startups looking to get off the ground, Orca Sciences asks big questions like, how do we get rid of ‘sky graffiti’? Can you heat the earth directly? And can we just eat carbon?
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Ian McKay, Founder of Orca Sciences
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Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder Stealth AI startup
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Maddie Drury, Series Producer
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Co-hosts
Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
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The CEO of Sublime Systems chats about their alternative to make cement. Generating about 8% of all global carbon dioxide emissions, Leah is using an exciting electrochemical process to reduce this figure. It’s used in the buildings around you, the roof over your head and the foundations beneath your feet - so how difficult will it be to reduce these high carbon emissions?
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Leah Ellis, CEO Sublime Systems
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Rob Stewart, Co-founder Stealth AI startup
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Maddie Drury, Series Producer
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Co-hosts
Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
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Senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute's China Climate Hub, Lauri Myllyvirta, delivers a deep dive on China’s climate picture. Why is a country responsible for the overwhelming majority of the world’s emissions also scaling renewable energy at lightning speed? Hannah crunches the numbers on whether China’s construction of coal fired power plants comes at odds with their renewable credentials.
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Lauri Myllyvirta, Co-founder, Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air & Senior Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute
Co-hosts
Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder Stealth AI startup
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Madeleine Drury, Series Producer
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Co-hosts
Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
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Finance expert Professor Alex Edmans is sceptical that divesting from fossil fuels will make an impact and reduce carbon emissions. With his experience on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Responsible Investing, he chats to Hannah and Rob about how a carbon tax is a no brainer climate solution instead.
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Professor Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance at London Business School
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Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder Stealth AI startup
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Madeleine Drury, Series Producer
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Co-hosts
Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
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Head of the International Geothermal Association, Dr Marit Brommer, says the world is sleeping on the power of geothermal. Currently, we use it’s energy for less than 0.5% of the world’s electricity. So she’s on a mission to convince governments and businesses about the untapped potential of the heat beneath our feet.
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Dr Marit Brommer, International Geothermal Association
Co-hosts
Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
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Maddie Drury, Series Producer
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Co-hosts
Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
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Neste has been developing an alternative to kerosene for powering planes over the past decade. CEO Heikki Malinen explains how SAF can be used alongside other advancements in aviation technology to reduce carbon emissions that come from flying. But with demand expected to increase, is the industry moving fast enough?
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Heikki Malinen, Neste
Further resources:
If you want to dig deeper into aviation demand, and pathways to low-carbon flying in the future, this paper is a good place to start (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-01046-9)
Co-hosts
Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
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Boston Metal are working on an alternative to a millennia old production process. The steel industry is responsible for around 7% of the world’s carbon emissions; decarbonisation is crucial.
As Chief Scientist at Boston Metal, Guillaume Lambotte breaks down the chemistry behind their alternative process for making steel. He explains how even though the steel industry will be impossible to change overnight, even a small reduction in emissions could have a positive impact on our planet.
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Guillaume Lambotte, Boston Metal
Co-hosts
Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
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As a senior researcher at Trase, Mark uses data like satellite imagery and shipping routes to help companies and governments track supply chains. Trase identifies links to deforestation, but do companies actually use this data to make a difference?
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Mark Titley, Trase
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Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
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The Chief Executive of the UK’s Climate Change Committee explains how our lives will change by 2050 if we continue to cut carbon emissions. She explains how her electric car is like her 'third child' and why she isn’t recommending we use hydrogen to power transport in the future.
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Emma Pinchbeck, the Climate Change Committee
Co-hosts
Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
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We use an enormous amount of land for animal agriculture and crops like palm oil. But there’s a new fat on the market which is offering an alternative to dairy and vegetable oils. CEO of Savor, Kathleen Alexander, discusses the company’s synthetic alternative and explains how they designed it to make the perfect pastry. Find out how this was born from a surprising question: Can we not just eat fossil fuels?
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Kathleen Alexander, CEO of Savor
Co-hosts
Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
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Small modular reactors. Nuclear fusion. Artificial intelligence. Senior economics correspondent for Cipher News, Cat Clifford, unpacks the latest innovations in nuclear energy and explains how China is leading the way.
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Cat Clifford, Senior Science and Economics Correspondent, Cipher News
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Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
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How much attention should we give to carbon removal technology versus stopping carbon emissions in the first place? Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather discusses the opportunities for carbon removal technologies including advanced rock weathering, direct air capture and ocean storage.
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Zeke Hausfather, Climate scientist with Stripe Climate, Carbon Brief, the IPCC and Berkeley Earth
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Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
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Skyports are building the infrastructure for electric flying taxis that could change the way we travel. You might be able to ride in one in Dubai as early as next year. The CEO of Skyports joins Hannah and Rob to discuss how vertiports could change urban transport. But do their climate credentials stand up?
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Duncan Walker, CEO of Skyports
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Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
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The maritime industry is responsible for roughly 3% of global emissions. So one solution to help reduce fuel consumption has already set sail. Head of Engineering at BAR Technologies, Lauren Eatwell has steered a project called WindWings which retrofits large steel and glass sails to ships. But will the wider industry move fast enough to meet climate targets?
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Lauren Eatwell, Head of Engineering at BAR Technologies
Co-hosts
Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
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What are carbon credits? Can you eat fossil fuels? Why is nuclear energy back in fashion? Co-hosts Dr Hannah Ritchie and Rob Stewart will answer these questions and more in a new season of Solving for Climate.
Season two will be travelling sustainably into your podcast feeds at the end of February. Make sure you’re following the podcast so you are notified when episode one arrives.
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Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
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‘Plastic has long been the fossil fuel industry’s ‘plan B’’ says Luke Haverhals, co-founder of NFW, a start-up dedicated to creating materials with plants, not oil. Plastic has a stranglehold over our lives, but it’s not good for us, and it also keeps the fossil fuel industry in business. Luke is proposing a solution to this - creating four different materials that can be used to make anything from clothes to shoes to furniture, that can return to the earth at the end of their life. Is this the solution to the plastic crisis?
Guest
Dr Luke Haverhals, CEO of Natural Fiber Welding
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Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World In Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
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Data centres are not the most glamorous topic of discussion but they are everywhere, powering our modern, digital economy. But they can also power swimming pools, breweries and laundries, as Mark Bjornsgaard tells Hannah and Rob on this episode. 97% of the electricity that goes into a computer comes out as heat. It’s an incredibly inefficient process, and more often than not this heat isn’t used. So, rather than building these data centres in the middle of nowhere, Mark’s company Deep Green is taking computing power to where heat is needed, offering a precious resource to communities across the UK. Could this be scaled up for use across the world?
Guest
Mark Bjornsgaard, Founder of Deep Green
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Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World In Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
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Despite the inexorable growth of Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT or Midjourney in the past couple of years, painfully little is known - or at least publicised - about their carbon impact. However, Dr Sasha Luccioni is on a mission to change that. Hannah and Rob talk to her about how she’s trying to maximise the benefits of AI, while minimising its hidden climate costs. Why is AI development such a black box? And could AI be part of the solution to the climate crisis?
Guest
Sasha Luccioni, AI and Climate Lead, Hugging Face
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Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World In Data @_HannahRitchie
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
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How do we buy ourselves some time to save our planet? Humans are responsible for the immense damage inflicted on our planet since the Industrial Revolution, but now we have the chance to do some good and repair the climate. Hannah and Rob discuss the power of human ingenuity and ambition with Founder of the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge University, Professor Sir David King. His work finding ambitious solutions to the climate crisis can sound almost unreal. Making clouds brighter to reflect more sunlight? Refreezing the arctic? Using whale poo to regenerate the ocean’s biodiversity to store more carbon? He joins Hannah and Rob explore these solutions and more in this week’s episode.
Guest
Professor Sir David King Founder of the Centre for Climate Repair @Sir_David_King
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Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World In Data
Rob Stewart, Co-founder and Director of Sustainability, Koba
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