With the pandemic and its attending lockdowns, how could global carbon dioxide emissions in December 2020 be 2% higher than December 2019? And what’s the problem with cutting hedgerows? Professor Brian Ó Gallachóir is Director of MaREI  The SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine joined Pat to explain all.

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