The Bhopal boy set to prove David Cameron wrong on carbon capture

The Conservative government didn't have faith in CCS and ditched a 1bn plan, but at a lab in Imperial College London, Aniruddha Sharma believes his team has hit upon a chemical that could make decarbonising fossil fuels affordable

"I have seen first hand what can happen if pollution is not controlled," says Aniruddha Sharma. The Indian entrepreneur was born in Bhopal, where his parents' wedding took place three days before the catastrophic chemical leak in 1984 that killed thousands and injured many more.

All of Sharma's extended family were in the city for the wedding celebration, he says: "Everybody was affected." Sharma says the experience is the source of his drive to tackle another great environmental crisis: climate change.