Welcome to Zero. I'm Oscar Boyd. And I'm Christine Driscoll.

We're the producers on Zero and we are joined as always by our eminent host, Akshatt

Rati.

Akshat, welcome back to London. You've been in Singapore, Australia and India, visiting and

interviewing all sorts of interesting people working in climate. How were your travels?

Oh, really good. En Energizing, exhausting, surprising,

all the things that good travel is supposed to be. What was the best thing you saw? I mean,

that's an easy one because I went to the Great Barrier Reef. It's very hard to beat a world

wonder, which I had been looking forward to see. The other wonder is Singapore. It's a

man-made wonder. And that was crazy fun too. I mean, it's the most densely populated country in the

world, 100% urban. And yet, it's also a really good place to visit. Everything works. Cooling is on all the time. We went

down and saw some cooling projects, including a district cooling project, which was very interesting.

Workers in the basement that had huge vats of ice cool using renewable electricity when it's

available. But yeah, two wonders of renewable electricity when it's available.

But yeah, two wonders of the world.

That's great.

So a couple of months ago, we introduced a new format on Zero, which is our numbers-based climate guessing game.

Because of its wild popularity last time, today the game is getting a second outing.

And so just to quickly recap, if this is your first time, or you've been wowed by Singapore and everything's left your mind,

there are a lot of climate numbers out there and they don't make it onto a full episode of zero.

But they do paint a good picture of where we're going and it is a shame to ignore them.

So the purpose of this game is to highlight our favorites.

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