Did you know that you can listen to many of your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?

Like Desert Island Discs, where you can hear castaways like Cher, Gareth Southgate and Nick Cave,

and enjoy longer versions of the music they've picked.

Good things come to those who don't wait.

Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.

Plenty of us mull over how we can be more green in our daily lives. Recycling and creating

less waste, maybe getting an electric car, travelling less by plane, transitioning to renewable energy

in our homes. When it comes to industry, decarbonisation, indeed reducing

emissions of all sorts, gets more complicated. Fossil fuels are used to manufacture some of mankind's

most ubiquitous products, from plastics to cement to steel. And creating them comes with an

environmental price tag. The bad news is that even in areas where we're trying to improve our footprint,

there are repercussions. Mining lithium for electric car batteries isn't exactly without impact.

Add to that stories of corporations prioritising profits and governments focusing on short-term

people-pleasing policies, and it will be easy to feel disheartened.

But my guest today says her role is to be the champion of science in this debate,

providing clear evidence to help reduce environmental impacts while allowing vital production processes to continue.

Anna Coray is an environmental engineer at Imperial College London,

where she's co-director of the university's Energy Futures Lab. Her work led to the development of a

risk model used in mining operations around the world, and her current research into subsurface

CO2 storage could hold the key to decarbonising British industry.

It's incredible to think that as a youngster, expectations were that she would settle and

remain in her home city of Athens, rather than pursuing her research passion, something that

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