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Woman's Hour

'Net zero' - what is the general public willing to do to get us there? Challenging online abuse, Suffragette trees

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Last week, a whole new set of climate-related phrases entered the Oxford English Dictionary including global heating, eco-anxiety and net zero. But despite being increasingly used in conversation, do people really know what terms like 'net zero' mean - and what is the general public willing to do to get us there? Prof Becky Willis from Lancaster University set up a research project called the Net Zero Diaries to try and find out. She talks about the latest results along with Pearl, who took part in the study. Chloe Tilley is also joined by Aneaka Kellay from the People Powered Retrofit project, to discuss what people on all sorts of budgets can do to reduce the carbon emissions from their homes.

Staffing shortages have long been a problem for the UK's maternity services. There aren't enough midwives joining the profession and too many are deciding to leave. A survey by the Royal College of Midwives earlier this month found that over half were considering quitting thanks to burnout and concerns about safety and quality of care. Now the President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Dr Edward Morris, has told the Guardian newspaper about his 'increasing concerns' about the 'immense pressures' facing maternity staff as we enter another winter with rising Covid cases. So is there a crisis in labour wards? We hear from a London-based midwife and Dr Jo Mountfield, Consultant Obstetrician at University Hospital Southampton

Over a century ago suffragettes planted an arboretum of 47 trees in Batheaston, each representing an activist. Today only one tree survives – a black pine planted by suffragette Rose Lamartine Yates in 1909. We discuss the history of the “suffragette wood” and plans to propagate the seeds of the last surviving tree with Dr Cynthia Hammond and artist Lucy Neal.

We speak to BBC Specialist Disinformation Reporter Marianna Spring who is appearing in front of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee this week to present the findings from her BBC Panorama investigation into the rising online abuse against women, and how social media algorithms are promoting hate.

Presenter: Chloe Tilley Producer: Kirsty Starkey

Interviewed Guest: Aneaka Kellay Interviewed Guest: Professor Becky Willis Interviewed Guest: Pearl Hassan Interviewed Guest: Dr Jo Mountfield Interviewed Guest: Dr Cynthia Hammond Interviewed Guest: Lucy Neal Interviewed Guest: Marianna Spring

Transcript

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Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

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searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

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telly we share what we've been watching

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Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

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Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

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And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

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searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds.

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Hello, I'm Chloe Tilly.

0:36.2

Welcome to Woman's Air from BBC Radio 4.

0:39.4

Hello and welcome, good to have your company on this Monday morning.

0:43.0

Now we have an environmental theme running through today's programme.

0:46.0

Ahead of the COP26 meeting of world leaders in Glasgow at the weekend,

0:50.0

described by President Biden's climate envoy as the world's last best chance to avert climate

0:55.6

catastrophe.

0:56.6

The United Nations is warning of higher global greenhouse gas emissions by the end of this decade. Well we know that the Russian

1:04.3

President Vladimir Putin isn't coming. China's President Xi hasn't yet made his

1:09.0

plans public. But all the conversations surrounds the goal of reaching net zero. But what's that actually mean? We're going to drill down into that and what we can do as individuals,

1:18.9

along with what governments could and should be doing. So my question to you this morning is what are you

1:24.2

willing to do to help tackle climate change? What sacrifices would you make? Or

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