Broadcaster

On the airwaves

Gabrielle has presented many programmes and series for BBC radio and television, including The Secret Life of Ice and Every Breath We Take for BBC 4, and has appeared on a host of flagship news and current affairs programmes.

Gabrielle has also been a guest on numerous popular podcasts, including as Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts, An Idiot’s Guide to Saving the World, and The Wall Street Journal.

There are dozens of examples of her keynote speeches, interviews and moderating panel discussions available on Vimeo, a small selection of which can be seen in the video section below.

Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts

Gabrielle joins Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts – Mark Stevenson and Ed Gillespie – on their hilarious and informative podcast for an episode focused on Carbon Removals (S3 – Ep9). Mixing humour with solid information, this podcast dissolves the mystery around carbon removals and explains why it is essential as part of humanity’s climate action strategy. This podcast contains adult language.

An Idiot’s Guide to Saving The World Podcast

Gabrielle joins Gail Gallie and Loyiso Madinga on the UN Global Goals based podcast, ‘An Idiot’s Guide to Saving the World’, and brings the positive message about carbon removal technologies with her.

Laying the foundations for Green Hydrogen

Wall Street Journal Editor at Large, Philipa Leighton-Jones, chairs this debate on the role of hydrogen products. There are parts of the low carbon economy that only hydrogen can reach. The market for cleanly produced green hydrogen had a slow start, but recently it’s been moving at an astonishing pace. And it’s going to be big, says Dr. Gabrielle Walker in conversation with Iberdrola’s Head of Heat and Hydrogen Samuel Perez in this excellent podcast. Required listening to understand the full scope of green hydrogen at this critical time.

Energy vs Climate Podcast

In the past year the number of companies committing to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 has exploded. With the fifty largest companies by value accounting for 28% of global GDP, corporate action is critically important if we are to avoid dangerous climate change. But what does a net zero commitment for a company mean in practice? What distinguishes the good from greenwashing, and can we even tell from the outside? What are the risks and opportunities for a company making a net zero commitment in the first place? Join David, Sara, Ed, and special guest Dr. Gabrielle Walker, Founder and Director of Valence Solutions, as they journey to net zero on Episode 28 of Energy vs Climate.

Climate Change in the Time of Coronavirus

In this Hay Festival podcast on Climate Change in the Time of Coronavirus, Gabrielle speaks alongside Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac, Nick Stern and Ed Hawkins to give some perspective on the ways in which the pandemic is changing the terms of reference for dealing with the climate crisis.

Climate change, from ‘doomism’ to optimism

In July 2020, Gabrielle joined the speakers at TLS radio to produce this podcast. In it, she talks us through three unhelpful attitudes to global warming, as exemplified in the Michael Moore-produced film Planet of the Humans.

Gabrielle in Conversation with Ed Gillespie on Covid-19 and the Climate

With coronavirus set to cause the largest ever annual fall in CO2 emissions to date, this webinar heard from experts within the field of sustainability, Gabrielle Walker and Ed Gillespie, on the true impact that Covid-19 has had on our planet. Gabrielle and Ed discussed the response of international organisations to climate change, governmental legislation required to combat climate change and how to create a more sustainable post pandemic future.

The Wanderful Podcast: Inspiration On The Go with Gabrielle Walker

In this episode of The Wanderful Podcast, Gabrielle talks to presenter David Pearl about the importance of leaving behind the either/or mindset when considering climate mitigation strategies, and instead embracing a ‘both and’ approach. Listen in and find out why they concluded Gabrielle is a “woo-woo scientist”.

Lithium-metal batteries

Gabrielle Walker joins Olly Mann and The Week’s Holden Frith to discuss Lithium-metal batteries. Batteries based on a more powerful technology – lithium metal rather than lithium ion – are about to enter production, thanks to Tokyo Metropolitan University and a spin-off company 3 Dom. They can already deliver twice the energy of existing batteries of the same size, with the promise of much more power to come – attracting interest from the world’s electric carmakers.

The Revised Oxford Offsetting Principles

What we’ll be covering: Why the principles were updated and what has changed? What impact does this have on corporate climate action? Why organisations need to start investing in carbon removals starting now? Live Q&A

Unlocking the Business Case for Carbon Removals

Representatives from Google, the U.S. Department of Energy, HSBC, and CUR8 took the stage in our webinar, The Business Case for Carbon Removals, to share experiences, strategies, and thoughts on this timely topic. The panel was chaired by Dr. Gabrielle Walker, Co-founder and Chief Scientist at CUR8.

How Climate Leaders Incorporate Carbon Removals Into Their Overall Sustainability Plan

In this webinar, well see how some of the world’s leading carbon removal operators have created their organisations net zero strategy to incorporate carbon removals

Secret Life Of Ice

Ice is one of the strangest, most beguiling and mesmerising substances in the world. Full of contradictions, it’s transparent yet it can glow with colour; it’s powerful enough to shatter rock but it can melt in the blink of an eye. It takes many shapes, from the fleeting beauty of a snowflake to the multi-million tonne vastness of a glacier and the eeriness of the ice fountains of far-flung moons.

Every Breath We Take

Gabrielle Walker tells the remarkable story of how we discovered that the air around us is not just empty space, it is full of hidden wonders.

Planet Earth Under Threat

Gabrielle Walker finds out how global warming is changing the natural world

Oceans: What Lies Beneath

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Thin Air

We not only live in the atmosphere, we live because of it. It is a transformer and a protector, though ultimately also a poison.

Antarctica

In this four-part series, science writer and broadcaster Gabrielle Walker joined scientists from the British Antarctic Survey on board HMS Endurance as they sailed to the last great wilderness on Earth.

An Earth Made For Life

In the second series of An Earth Made for Life Gabrielle Walker continues her quest to understand why complex life is found on our planet, but not on any of our celestial neighbours. From the outback of Australia to the walls of the Grand Canyon Gabrielle unearths evidence of the dramatic changes that took place on our planet billions of years ago which may have triggered the rise of animals.

Five Holes In The Ground

It’s amazing what you can find down a hole in the ground. In this series of short programmes, Gabrielle Walker meets scientists who are drilling into a volcano for energy, drilling into a crater to discover what killed the dinosaurs, drilling into the sea floor to discover very ancient life, drilling into a river system in Spain in search of alien life and drilling into the centre of Antarctica to discover a climate record 800,000 years old.

TED: What you need to know about carbon removal

In October 2021, Gabrielle gave her first TED Talk: What do woolly pigs have to do with climate change? They’re part of a vital, ingenious and evolving strategy to take carbon out of the sky and store it safely — in trees, soils, the ocean, buildings, rocks and deep underground. Every carbon removal approach takes some combination of natural resources, human ingenuity and technology, says climate thinker Gabrielle Walker. If we get the mix right, we can clean up the environmental mess we’ve made, reverse the processes behind climate change and give nature a chance to heal. “What goes up must now come down,” she says.

Swedish Steel Prize

Gabrielle gives the keynote at the annual Swedish Steel Prize in Stockholm, sponsored by steel manufacturer SSAB.

Hay Festival – Reformations

Gabrielle Walker gives a Keynote speech at the Hay Festival Reformations event in 2017. In this she shares specific facts about the impact of climate change and the challenges, and opportunities, it presents.

Climeworks Summit

Gabrielle delivers a keynote speech to business, technology, and policy experts at the Climeworks Summit in June, 2022: Carbon removal as a mitigating force for climate change. This was the third edition of the summit and was aimed at highlighting the roles that the public and private sectors play in driving climate solutions and meeting global net-zero goals.

Fireside chat with Nigel Topping

Gabrielle discussed Carbon Dioxide Removals (CDR) with Nigel Topping, UN High-Level Climate Action Champion for the UK, during New York Climate Week in one of a series of talks curated by South Pole and Valence Solutions. In this talk, Gabrielle and Nigel discuss not just the technical details of what’s needed for CDR, but how to do it right.

Discovering Carbon Dioxide

Gabrielle collaborated with the BBC to produce a series entitled ‘Every Breath We Take; Understanding Our Atmosphere’, in which she sought to tell the remarkable story of how we discovered that the air around us is not just empty space, but full of hidden wonders. In this one minute clip from that series, Gabrielle recounts how, in 18th century Glasgow, a doctor accidentally discovers the first clue that air is made of a mixture of gases.

Chelsea Clinton and Devi Sridhar participate in a debate chaired by Gabrielle Walker

At the 2018 Hay Festival, Gabrielle Walker chaired a debate with Chelsea Clinton and Devi Sridhar following the release of the book they wrote together, Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why. Clinton is Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation and a Lecturer at the Mailman School of Public health at Columbia. Sridhar is Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh.

Walker is a hugely engaging presenter with a voice as soothing as gentle waves lapping a sun-kissed shore.”

The Guardian