Trees that bind ten times more CO2 than those previously known or bacteria that simply eat up the plastic floating in the sea: Synthetic biology is one of the great opportunities to save the world. Tara Shirvani portrays this young scientific discipline that is fundamentally changing all of our lives in an exciting and easy-to-understand manner. It shows what benefits we can all derive from it now.

Tara Shirvani, born in Vienna in 1986, studied at Cambridge and Oxford. As an expert in sustainability, innovation and climate policy, she advises companies, governments and institutional investors in the areas of sustainable investing, ESG and green finance. She is co-founder of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group and one of the Forbes 30 under 30 and researches synthetic biology and climate change at the University of Oxford.