Rethinking the future: cleaning up big emitters
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
We report from the Countdown summit in Edinburgh where fresh ideas to fight climate change are taking centre stage ahead of the UN climate talks, starting in Glasgow later this month. Vivienne Nunis hears from the business leaders and scientists coming up with new ways to cut carbon emissions in some of the world’s dirtiest industries. Mahendra Singhi is the boss of Dalmia Cement, one of India's biggest cement manufacturers. He tells us how his company plans to become carbon neutral by 2040. In the accessories market, Modern Meadow co-founder Andras Forgacs and CEO Anna Bakst explain how their plant-based leather alternative could shake up fashion supply chains. And what if cows everywhere could be made to emit lower levels of methane when they burp? Biologist Ermias Kebreab says adding seaweed to their diet could be key. Producer: Sarah Treanor Image: A cow chewing cud. Credit: Getty
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Business Daily with me Vivienne Nunes on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.8 | Today we're at the Countdown Climate Summit in Edinburgh, where fresh ideas to fight climate change are taking centre stage, |
| 0:14.0 | ahead of the UN's crucial climate talks, COP26, starting in Glasgow in just two weeks' time. |
| 0:21.0 | Countdown is hosted by TED, famous for TED Talks, and brings together business leaders, |
| 0:26.7 | scientists, venture capitalists and more. |
| 0:29.4 | We hear their plans to cut carbon emissions as they rethink some of the world's most |
| 0:34.2 | polluting industries. |
| 0:35.4 | What is special about this technology is that the material |
| 0:40.2 | itself is very desirable. It has a different feeling than fossil fuel synthetic. Some studies have |
| 0:47.6 | actually shown a reduction of 98%. So this is a very, very important way of reducing those emissions. |
| 0:55.0 | That's Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 1:01.4 | Who's the air? |
| 1:03.2 | Our land? Who's there? |
| 1:04.2 | Our air? |
| 1:05.1 | Who's water? |
| 1:07.0 | Our water. Who's future? |
| 1:08.1 | Our future. |
| 1:09.0 | Who's air? |
| 1:09.9 | Climate activists protesting outside the countdown summit in Edinburgh. |
| 1:14.4 | They want some of the world's dirtiest industries to clean up their act. |
| 1:18.8 | And while these protesters may have been focusing on oil, fossil fuel extraction is far from the only industry with a big environmental footprint. |
| 1:27.9 | As the global population grows, cities expand |
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