Carbon Negative and Carbon Offsetting
Sliced Bread
BBC
4.6 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Brands are promising to plant a tree for each can of beer, tshirt, or pair of trainers you buy, offsetting their carbon emissions so they can put an attractive ‘carbon negative’ sticker on a product to show green they - and you - truly are. But how effective is a new forest at offsetting a company’s emissions, what does ‘carbon negative’ really mean, and how do they go about proving they’ve achieved it?
Trees are just one type of carbon offset. Another, albeit promising but expensive, option is Direct Air Capture. Could that be the future of long term carbon offsetting? Greg Foot finds out.
This series, we’re testing your suggested wonder-products. If you’ve seen an ad, trend or fad and wonder if there's any evidence to back up a claim drop us an email to sliced.bread@bbc.co.uk or you can send us a voice note to our new WhatsApp number: 07543 306807
PRESENTER: Greg Foot PRODUCER: Simon Hoban
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, podcast fan. |
| 0:03.0 | Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party. |
| 0:06.7 | We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July |
| 0:09.0 | for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival. |
| 0:12.8 | We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting, |
| 0:15.3 | including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane, |
| 0:18.4 | and some bloke called Greg James doing his radio four show called Rewinder. |
| 0:23.2 | You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts, |
| 0:25.3 | and the best part is free. |
| 0:28.0 | To book your free tickets, |
| 0:29.3 | go to crossedwires.orgive, forward slash fringe. |
| 0:34.2 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:44.3 | Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to the show that investigates the bold claims made by promising sounding products. |
| 0:51.7 | I am on a bunk-busting mission to find out if these wonder products really are |
| 0:55.9 | the best things since sliced bread or marketing BS. If you have spotted an advert or seen a trend that |
| 1:02.7 | you'd like me to look into, please send it over on email to Slice.bred at BBC.co.uk. Or you can now |
| 1:10.5 | send us a voice note via our new WhatsApp number, which I will |
| 1:14.3 | give you at the end of the episode. Today's investigation topic comes from Andrew Sturton in Edinburgh. |
| 1:23.9 | Hello, Andrew. Hello. Hi, Greg. How are you doing? Yeah, I'm okay. How are you doing? |
| 1:28.7 | Very good. What would you like me to investigate for you? |
| 1:32.0 | So I got in touch asking you to look into companies that are talking about their products being carbon negative. I'd heard of carbon neutral. |
| 1:40.7 | So I thought it would be a good thing for this program to investigate. |
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