This week we’re talking about climate change. The COP27 climate conference is about to begin in Egypt. But what will be the conference’s own carbon emissions? And can the event deliver for Africa? EPISODE NOTES COP is back. This month, leaders from the worlds of politics, industry, activism, and academia will gather again – for COP27 – in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt. A COP taking place in Africa underlines many of the pressing issues that delegates will face. How can justice be achieved for those countries that are least responsible for CO2 levels, but often the most damaged by climate change? And how can such a large-scale event, bringing people together from around the world, be run without in itself creating more environmental damage? This week we are joined by Dr Simon Chin-Yee, Lecturer in International Development in the UCL Department of Political Science and Professor Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth System Science in the UCL Department of Geography.

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Environmental and social benefits of the targeted intraoperative radiotherapy for breast cancer: data from UK TARGIT-A trial centres and two UK NHS hospitals offering TARGIT IORT. Nathan J Coombs, Joel M Coombs, Uma J Vaidya, Julian Singer, Max Bulsara, Jeffrey S Tobias, Frederik Wenz, David J Joseph, Douglas A Brown, Richard Rainsbury, Tim Davidson, Douglas J A Adamson, Samuele Massarut, David Morgan, Ingrid Potyka, Tammy Corica, Mary Falzon, Norman Williams, Michael Baum, Jayant S Vaidya BMJ Open 2016;6:e010703. http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/5/e010703.full http://blogs.bmj.com/bmjopen/2016/05/09/radiotherapy-during-surgery-could-save-millions-of-travel-miles-and-tonnes-of-co2/ The use of TARGIT intraoperative radiotherapy for eligible patients with breast cancer significantly reduces their journeys for treatment and has environmental benefits: 5 million miles of travel, 170 000 woman-hours and 1200 tonnes of CO2 (a forest of 100 hectares) per year in the UK

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