This week saw the publication of a landmark IPCC report which concluded that a global rollout of clean energy was both affordable and would shave only a tiny fraction off economic growth. So for this edition of Science Weekly we are repeating a provocative interview we first ran a year ago when a book called The Burning Question by Mike Berners-Lee and Duncan Clark was published.
The book explores how we can reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and argues that we should leave the vast untapped reserves of coal, gas and oil in the ground.
Adam Vaughan, the Guardian's online environment editor, interviewed Clark, who is a consultant editor on the environment desk and visiting researcher at the UCL Energy Institute, and Berners-Lee, a leading expert on carbon emissions and the author of How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything.
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