Are we too reliant on tech thats not invented yet?

Published: Jan. 23, 2022, 11:30 p.m.

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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\\u2019s largest direct air capture plant in Iceland and speak to the person in charge of Namibia\\u2019s 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, \\nVictoria Gill, BBC\\u2019s Science Correspondent, \\nChristoph Beuttler, Head of Climate Policy at Climeworks, and \\nJane Olwoch, Executive Director of South African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL)

Producer: Dearbhail Starr\\nResearcher: Tatyana Movshevich and Zoe Gelber \\nReporter: Magn\\xfas Geir Eyj\\xf3lfsson \\nSeries Producer: Alex Lewis\\nEditor: Emma Rippon\\nSound engineer: Tom Brignell

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