Synopsis
Methods of producing renewable energy and reducing carbon emissions.
- Programme: Climate Change: The Facts
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2019
- Geography | Energy and Resources | Non-renewable and renewable energy | Renewable energy
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