The Climate Question

Why can’t we build more wind farms?

In rural North East Spain, proposals to build hundreds of new wind turbines have sparked opposition and divided communities. 
 
And it isn’t only Spain. There has been resistance to wind power projects across the world from Mexico to the US. Opposition groups have succeeded in delaying, and sometimes cancelling, the construction of new wind farms. 
 
To move away from fossil fuels, we will need a huge expansion in renewables. But will wind power be able to meet this challenge in the face of local opposition around the world?Guests:
Oliver Metcalfe, Bloomberg NEF
Joyce Lee, Global Wind Energy Council
Alejandra Ancheita, Mexican NGO, ProDESCPresenters: Neal Razzell and Graihagh Jackson
Reporter: Esperanza Escribano
Producers: Josephine Casserly and Jordan Dunbar
Sound Engineer: Tom Brignell
PC: Siobhan Reed and Helena Warwick-Cross

A global programme that reflects the variety of takes on climate change, how best to understand it and the world’s attempts to avert it, temper it or adapt to it.
It is not about questioning whether climate change is happening, it’s about finding the best ways to respond to it.
This is sharp-edged, analytical inquiry. Hard scrutiny, touched with a sense of adventure and discovery, and where we can find it, hope.
It includes stories from across the world on why we find it so hard to save our own planet, and how we might change that.