Mercedes Maroto-Valer on making carbon dioxide useful

The Life Scientific

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🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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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

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0:38.6	and you get to find out what drives them. I hope you enjoy this episode Hello what comes to your mind when you hear the word carbon you may
0:47.6	picture the beauty and richness of life on earth we are after all carbon-based
0:52.1	life forms without carbon carbon chemistry, there would
0:54.7	be no life on this planet. But your thoughts might also turn to smoking factory towers,
1:00.3	traffic pollution, decimated rainforests and raging seas brought by the latest climate-related
1:05.4	disaster.
1:06.9	When a carbon atom bonds to two oxygen atoms, it becomes carbon dioxide, a greenhouse
1:12.1	gas. the rapidly rising
1:14.4	concentrations of which in the atmosphere are causing our planet to warm
1:17.6	towards catastrophic levels. Carbon has become a dirty word in the current
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