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The Life Scientific: Mercedes Maroto-Valer

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Mercedes Maroto-Valer on making carbon dioxide useful.

Jim Al-Khalili chats to a “solutions scientist” about solving our CO2 problem.

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 excess of the climate-busting gas, carbon dioxide, 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… 

Presenter: Jim Al-Khalili 
Producer: Gerry Holt 
Audio editor: Sophie Ormiston
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