It's Copenhagen Week, so bring on the dancing girls special programmes...
Monday 7th December
The Climate Connection
On: BBC World Service Radio
Time: 10:32 to 11:00 (Also 1530, 2030, 0130, Sun 2230)
In many parts of the world buildings produce half of all CO2 pollution. Alex Solk reports on making new homes zero-carbon.
Frontiers
On: BBC Radio Four
Time: 21:00 to 21:30
As negotiators meet in Copenhagen to discuss climate change, Richard Hollingham asks if Europe should give a signal to the developing world and allow the cultivation of GM crops. He discusses the way biotechnology can help us develop new crops able to withstand harsher growing conditions. Richard talks to some of the biotech companies that want the European Commission to relax its attitude towards GMOs (genetically modified organisms), and to the EC itself about its policy on GM products.
Man on Earth
On: Channel 4
Time: 21:00 to 22:00
As world leaders meet in Copenhagen to agree an international deal on climate change, in this major new four-part series, Tony Robinson travels back through 200,000 years of human history to find out what happened to our ancestors when violent climate change turned their world upside down, and what they can teach us as we face our own climate crisis today. Using CGI effects and stunning imagery, this series illustrates how climate has shaped human history from the beginning. In the first programme, Tony explores how a small group of our earliest African ancestors were rescued from extinction by the last great global warming 130,000 years ago.
Tuesday 8th December
Home Planet
On: BBC Radio Four
Time: 15:00 to 15:30
Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions about the natural world and our impact on it.
Wednesday 9th December
The Wednesday Documentary
On: BBC World Service Radio
Time: 10:06 to 10:30 (Also 1500, 2000, 0100, Sat 1900, Sun 1030)
Can China Go Green?.
Jonathon Porritt is in China.
Horizon
On: BBC 2
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (Also Thu 0010)
How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?.
In a Horizon special, naturalist Sir David Attenborough investigates whether the world faces a population crisis. He reflects on the impact of a doubling in world population during his career. While much of the projected population growth is in the developing world, it is the lifestyle enjoyed by many in the West that has the most impact on the planet. Sir David examines whether it is the duty of individuals to commit to smaller families and change the way they live for the sake of humanity.
Hot Planet
On: BBC 1
Time: 22:45 to 23:45
Professors Iain Stewart and Kathy Sykes take a timely look at global warming ahead of the Copenhagen summit, in this film which explores the world's leading climate scientists' vision of the planet's future. They predict that if global temperatures continue to rise at their current rate, Earth will be one degree warmer within ten years, and three degrees or more warmer before the end of the century. The programme also explores various technologies being devised to offer solutions for a sustainable future.
Thursday 10th December
Live Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Questions
On: BBC Parliament
Time: 10:30 to 11:30 (Also 0100)
Live coverage of questions in the House of Commons to Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary Hilary Benn and his team of ministers.
One Planet
On: BBC World Service Radio
Time: 10:32 to 11:00 (Also 1530, 2030, 0130, Sun 0630)
One Planet looks at how we use our planet.
Afternoon Play
On: BBC Radio Four
Time: 14:15 to 15:00
Getting To Four Degrees.
By Sarah Woods. What if we can't limit global warming to two degrees? What if it reaches four degrees - or more? Three real-life climate change experts spin one average family into the future, to look at life on a warmer planet. With Professor Kevin Anderson, Mark Lynas and Dr Emma Tompkins. Directed by Jonquil Panting.
The Material World
On: BBC Radio Four
Time: 16:30 to 16:56
Quentin Cooper looks at global plans to monitor the deep sea. In the USA, fuelled by more than 100 million dollars from the Federal Recovery Act, the Ocean Observatories Initiative has just begun. It plans to create an unprecedented network of underwater surveillance equipment in oceans. Europe and Asia also have plans for networks of ocean observatories. Quentin finds out how monitoring the oceans' depths, second by second, will help us understand scientific questions as far ranging as the process of ocean circulation and the impact of future climate change.
In Business
On: BBC Radio Four
Time: 20:30 to 21:00 (Also Sun 2130)
Sugaring The Pill.
Brazil has been pioneering the use of Ethanol for its vehicles for over three decades. Ethanol emits 90 per cent less emissions than gasoline. As world leaders debate climate change in Copenhagen, can Brazil convince the rest of the globe that sugar really is good for you?
Saturday 12th December
Eco Solutions
On: CNN
Time: 23:30 to 00:00
Eco Solutions gives the viewer a unique peek into the situations that plague our planet and proposes real solutions to help us understand why we should make a change.
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