👁3 ways to make flying more climate-friendly
🧠Ryah Whalen
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Air travel opens our eyes to the world, but it also comes at a high cost to the environment. Piloting us into a future of green aviation, innovator Ryah Whalen shares three ways to lower the industry's carbon footprint through smarter designs, eco-friendly fuel and new technology -- so we can continue to explore the planet without hurting it.
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👁This is the moment to take on the climate crisis
🧠Al Gore
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Lighting up the TED stage, Nobel laureate Al Gore takes stock of the current state of climate progress and calls attention to institutions that have failed to honor their promises by continuing to pour money into polluting sectors. He explains how the financial interests of fossil fuel companies have blocked the policymaking process in key countries -- and calls for a global epiphany to take on the climate crisis. "Do not give up hope," Gore says. "And remember always that political will is itself a renewable resource."
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#environment #pollution #climate_change #sustainability #fossil_fuels #business #Countdown

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👁What if buildings created energy instead of consuming it?
🧠Ksenia Petrichenko
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Buildings are bad news for the climate -- but they don't have to be. While our structures are currently responsible for a third of global energy consumption and emissions, a future where they create more energy than they consume is possible. Energy policy analyst Ksenia Petrichenko has a three-tiered strategy for thinking differently about buildings, transforming them from passive users to active players in the energy system and bringing us closer to our climate targets.
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#design #Countdown #pollution #climate_change #technology #future #innovation

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👁A faster way to get to a clean energy future
🧠Ramez Naam
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣When it comes to cost, clean energy is bound to beat out fossil fuels, says technologist Ramez Naam. But the hesitancy to build amid the prevalence of "not in my backyard" campaigns is preventing the creation of our sustainable future. Naam outlines the changes we need to make to get out of our own way and create a stronger, more reliable renewable energy grid. "It is time for us to build," he says.
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#energy #renewable_energy #economics #solar_energy #future #electricity #wind_energy #technology #Countdown

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👁The massive machines removing carbon from Earth's atmosphere
🧠Jan Wurzbacher
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣To restrain global warming, we know we need to drastically reduce pollution. The very next step after that: using both natural and technological solutions to trap as much excess carbon dioxide from the air as possible. Enter Orca, the world's first large-scale direct air capture and storage plant, built in Iceland by the team at Climeworks, led by climate entrepreneur Jan Wurzbacher. This plant is capable of removing 4,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the air each year. With affordability and scalability in mind, Wurzbacher shares his vision for what comes after Orca, the future of carbon removal tech -- and why these innovations are crucial to stop climate change.
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👁A carbon-free future starts with driving less
🧠Wayne Ting
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Can we use less energy from fossil fuels while also meeting our transportation needs? Enter shared electric micromobility: the transition away from dependence on cars and towards lightweight transport options like electric scooters, which release a fraction of the carbon emissions of conventional transport. Helping people get around on the world's largest shared electric vehicles system, entrepreneur and Lime CEO Wayne Ting shares how his company redesigned their scooters so parts can be reused and recycled, ultimately reducing their direct and indirect carbon output. "We have to work at building a future of transportation that is shared, affordable, but most importantly, carbon-free," he says.
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👁Amazon's commitment to run on 100-percent renewable energy
🧠Chris Roe
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣What will it take to power the planet in a way that doesn't hurt it? Chris Roe, Amazon's director of energy and sustainable operations, shares the company's pledge to get to net-zero carbon and fully operate all buildings -- including data and distribution centers, warehouses, commercial offices and grocery stores -- on 100-percent renewable energy. He reveals the most critical part of achieving these goals: partnering with companies around the globe to spearhead new wind and solar projects. Modeling a collaborative approach to a climate-friendly future, Roe invites leaders and companies everywhere to set their ambitions high and create a world that runs on green energy -- because we can only achieve this together.
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👁The climate crisis is expensive -- here's who should pay for it
🧠Avinash Persaud
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣The developing world is most affected by climate change but has contributed the least to the problem. Meanwhile, rich countries historically exacerbated the environmental crisis and grew wealthy as a result -- but aren't helping developing countries build climate resilience, which is now more crucial than ever to slowing climate change everywhere. Economist Avinash Persaud has an ambitious proposal to reimagine that dynamic: the Bridgetown Initiative, a groundbreaking vision of how rich countries can catalyze climate mitigation, contribute to loss and damages and help build a sustainable future for all.
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👁Why you should ditch deadly fossil-fuel appliances
🧠Donnel Baird
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣In the US, people spend the overwhelming majority of their time inside buildings that burn fossil fuels, which are bad for both the environment and human health. (Think: breathing in air pollution from gas stoves, furnaces and water heaters.) If we're going to fix this problem, we need to retrofit millions of buildings with all-electric equipment, says energy upgrader Donnel Baird. Hear about his ambitious plan to rip the fossil fuel infrastructure out of aging buildings and upgrade it with smarter, cleaner, healthier technology.
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👁The secret perks of driving electric
🧠Cynthia Williams
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Electric vehicles need to be more than just eco-friendly — they have to be more chic, convenient and affordable than their gas-powered alternatives, says sustainability leader Cynthia Williams. She explores what it'll take for an electric revolution to succeed in the US, calling on corporations, policy leaders, investors and more to collaborate in unprecedented ways.
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