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Are we too reliant on tech that’s not invented yet?

Are we too reliant on tech that’s not invented yet?

The Climate Question vor 4 Jahren

Do countries’ climate pledges rely too much upon technology that is in its infancy?

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Written into many of the promises made by countries about how
they intend to achieve their UN climate pledges to reduce
emissions is an assumption that technology will help them make
this happen. But this technology either does not currently exist
or is in its infancy.

This includes schemes to take carbon out of the air via carbon
capture and storage or direct air capture and to replace our
dependency on fossil fuels with green hydrogen. We visit the
world’s largest direct air capture plant in Iceland and speak to
the person in charge of Namibia’s grand plans to become the green
hydrogen production hub of the world - can both really be scaled
up in order to meet our current needs?

Presenters Kate Lamble and Jordan Dunbar are joined by:

Zeke Hausfather, Director of Climate and Energy at the
Breakthrough Institute, Victoria Gill, BBC’s Science
Correspondent, Christoph Beuttler, Head of Climate Policy at
Climeworks, and Jane Olwoch, Executive Director of South African
Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land
Management (SASSCAL)

Producer: Dearbhail Starr Researcher: Tatyana Movshevich and Zoe
Gelber Reporter: Magnús Geir Eyjólfsson Series Producer: Alex
Lewis Editor: Emma Rippon Sound engineer: Tom Brignell