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Mercedes Maroto-Valer on making carbon dioxide useful

Mercedes Maroto-Valer on making carbon dioxide useful

FromThe Life Scientific


Mercedes Maroto-Valer on making carbon dioxide useful

FromThe Life Scientific

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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Dec 12, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

How do you solve a problem like CO2?
As the curtain closes on the world’s most important climate summit, we talk to a scientist who was at COP 28 and is working to solve our carbon dioxide problem.
Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer thinks saving the planet is still Mission Possible - but key to success is turning the climate-busting gas, CO2, into something useful. And as Director of the Research Centre for Carbon Solutions at Heriot-Watt University and the UK’s Decarbonisation Champion, she has lots of innovative ideas on how to do this.
She also has a great climate-themed suggestion for what you should say when someone asks your age…
Produced by Gerry Holt
Released:
Dec 12, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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