3 Ways Your Money Can Fight Climate Change
12:17 | What if we could solve the climate and housing crises at the same time?
Mangroves, Storm Walls and Other Ways to Protect Coasts from Climate Change
7:59 | Nearly 40 percent of humanity lives near a coast — and no two coasts are the same. How can these communities build resilience to the increasing risks of climate change?
A Faster Way to Get to a Clean Energy Future
15:22 | Ramez Naam outlines the changes we need to make to get out of our own way and create a stronger, more reliable renewable energy grid.
The Clean Energy Hub of the Future
7:45 | Why aren’t more people investing in Africa’s green energy?
The Surprising Climate Benefits of Sharing Your Stuff
11:24 | Tessa Clarke believes that sharing more and wasting less is an underrated solution to the climate crisis.
The Massive Machines Removing Carbon from Earth’s Atmosphere
11:59 | Orca is the world’s first large-scale direct air capture and storage plant, built in Iceland by the team at Climeworks.
What If Buildings Created Energy Instead of Consuming It?
13:32 | 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 produce is possible.
The Fairy Tales of the Fossil Fuel Industry – and a Better Climate Story
9:57 | The fossil fuel industry is a factory of fairy tales, says activist and School Strike for Climate organizer Luisa Neubauer.
How to Design Climate-Resilient Buildings
14:11 | Taking us to her home of Barbados, where the hurricane season is unforgiving and freak storms are becoming more frequent, Alyssa-Amor Gibbons points to the brilliance of endemic designs that are built to work with nature.
A Creative Approach to Community Climate Action
10:31 | When he learned of the threat that rising sea levels posed to his coastal hometown of Miami, Florida, eco-artist Xavier Cortada founded a movement around beautifully designed elevation markers highlighting the risk of flood damage.
How to Find Your Voice for Climate Action
9:56 | Actor and activist Fehinti Balogun pieces together multiple complex issues — climate change, colonialism, systemic racism — in a talk that’s part spoken-word poem, part diagnosis of entrenched global problems.
5 Lessons on Building an Emissions-Free City
15:14 | Confronting climate change makes for better cities and a better quality of life, says Heidi Sørensen, director of the climate agency for the city of Oslo, Norway.
Is there a role for carbon credits in a just transition to net zero?
36:25 | Through TED Talks and conversations featuring scientists, CEOs, activists, politicians, artists, frontline community leaders, investors and more, this film offers a 360-degree view of carbon credits.
A Carbon-Free Future Starts With Driving Less
3:29 | Enter shared electric micromobility: the transition away from dependence on cars and towards lightweight transport options like electric scooters.
A New Social Contract for Global Climate Justice
10:40 | Huma Yusuf shares a vision for global climate diplomacy where the countries responsible for pollution pay reparations for the damage they’ve caused, while developing countries bring forward a clean, green future.
Climate Action’s Hidden Opportunities for Women
12:14 | Using Vienna, Austria’s gender-equal urban planning program as a model for how women can be included in every step of building a green economy, Sqalli offers solutions for advancing both sustainability and gender equality – at the same time.
How Green Hydrogen Could End The Fossil Fuel Era
9:14 | As climate change accelerates, finding clean alternatives to fossil fuels is more urgent than ever. Social entrepreneur Vaitea Cowan believes green hydrogen is the answer.
The Blind Spots of the Green Energy Transition
18:01 | The world needs clean power, but decarbonization calls for a massive increase in the mining and extraction of minerals like lithium, graphite and cobalt.
The Eco-Creators Helping the Climate Through Social Media
9:30 | “Climate doom-ism,” or a pessimistic outlook on the future of the planet, rivals climate denialism in holding up the fight against climate change, says activist Zahra Biabani.
How Hip-Hop Can Make Climate Action Cool
9:46 | With artists MyVerse and Kristen Warren as an inspiring opening act, social entrepreneur Samir Ibrahim suggests hip-hop and its stars can help us move from talking about the problem to rapping about (and acting on) solutions.
How to Find Joy in Climate Action
10:11 | We can all play a role in the climate movement by tapping into our skills, resources and networks in ways that bring us satisfaction.
Yuval Noah Harari: The Actual Cost of Preventing Climate Breakdown
10:25 | Yuval Noah Harari makes the case that preventing ecological cataclysm will not require the major global disruptions many fear and explains that we already have the resources we need — it’s just a matter of shifting our priorities.
3 Ways to Make Flying More Climate-Friendly
9:17 | 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.
Al Gore: This Is the Moment to Take On the Climate Crisis
10:25 | Al Gore 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.
5 Promising Factors Propelling Climate Action
11:30 | Climate tech investor Gabriel Kra offers five big reasons to be optimistic about climate — starting with the fact that many of the world’s best minds are focused and working on building a clean future for all.
How Ancient Arctic Carbon Threatens Everyone on the Planet
8:16 | What will happen to the planet if climate change melts what’s left of Arctic permafrost?
Climate Change Isn’t a Distant Threat — It’s Our Reality
6:10 | Every year, ocean levels rise and high tides flood the low-lying Marshall Islands in the Pacific, destroying homes, salinating water supplies and disrupting livelihoods.
What Seaweed and Cow Burps Have to Do with Climate Change
9:09 | Animal scientist Ermias Kebreab talks through an ingenious solution to reduce methane-rich cow burps by feeding cattle something growing below the surface of the ocean: seaweed.
The Carbonless Fuel That Could Change How We Ship Goods
7:27 | Maria Gallucci introduces a planet-friendly alternative that could fuel tens of thousands of cargo ships: green ammonia.
Climate Action Needs New Frontline Leadership
13:58 | We can’t rely on those who created climate change to fix it, says climate justice organizer Ozawa Bineshi Albert.
Why Is China Appointing Judges to Combat Climate Change?
11:39 | Why is China appointing thousands of judges to environmental courts and training prosecutors to bring cases to them, even if it means suing the government?
The Ocean’s Ingenious Climate Solutions
8:50 | Susan Ruffo highlights the ocean’s ready-made solutions to the climate crisis: From storing carbon to providing protection to coastal communities.
How Wind Energy Could Power Earth … 18 Times Over
10:57 | Denmark’s climate minister Dan Jørgensen lays out his plan to end the country’s oil industry by 2050 and transition to a fossil-free future powered by wind energy.
Sustainable Cooling That Doesn’t Warm the Planet
10:23 | Rachel Kyte identifies four major areas with transformative solutions — from roofs painted with bright white paint to solar control glass to more efficient cold chains for vaccines.
What You Need to Know About Carbon Removal
12:38 | What do woolly pigs have to do with climate change?
The Unexpected, Underwater Plant Fighting Climate Change
12:06 | Once considered the ugly duckling of environmental conservation, seagrass is emerging as a powerful tool for climate action.
How to Realistically Decarbonize the Oil and Gas Industry
13:43 | Bjørn Otto Sverdrup (OCGI) describes a possible path for the industry to pivot to net-zero operations, reimagining the role it could play in helping decarbonize the economy and igniting changes in how we consume energy.
How Biochar Removes CO2 from the Air — and Helps Farmers Thrive
11:27 | Biochar is a kind of charcoal that removes CO2 from the atmosphere, helping yield healthy crops and even producing abundant renewable energy in the form of electricity as it’s made.
Language Shouldn’t Be a Barrier to Climate Action
6:50 | Sophia Kianni and Climate Cardinals is translating and sourcing crucial climate resources into more than 100 languages.
Use Your Voice, Vote and Wallet for Climate Action
14:08 | Halla Tómasdóttir urges us all to recognize our power and to use our voice, vote and wallet to catalyze meaningful climate action.
Virginia Smith: The global risk of flooding — and how to turn the tide
11:45 | From village to metropolis, global flooding is on the rise, and traditional approaches to managing the swells won’t cut it.
John Doerr and Ryan Panchadsaram: An action plan for solving the climate crisis
11:36 | “How much more damage do we have to endure before we realize that it’s cheaper to save this planet than to ruin it?”
Nili Gilbert: The crucial intersection of climate and capital
9:57 | The financial sector often talks of decarbonizing investment portfolios as a way to fight climate change. But portfolios can be “cleaned” without having any real impact on the problem.
Nicola Sturgeon: How small countries can make a big impact on climate change
9:15 | When it comes to tackling climate change, the size of a country doesn’t matter — it’s their ambition that counts.
Chibeze Ezekiel: A vision for sustainable energy in Africa
6:53 | Africa needs new energy sources to fuel its development, but the continent should invest in renewable energy instead of cheap, polluting alternatives like coal.
Gavin McCormick: Tracking the whole world’s carbon emissions — with satellites & AI
11:15 | If we really want to get serious about fighting climate change, we need a way to track carbon pollution in real-time and identify the worst culprits.
Hongqiao Liu: Can China achieve its ambitious climate pledges?
9:21 | In 2020, China’s President Xi Jinping pledged that China would both peak its emissions by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2060.
Tzeporah Berman: The bad math of the fossil fuel industry
13:38 | We currently have enough fossil fuels to progressively transition off of them, says climate campaigner Tzeporah Berman, but the industry continues to expand oil, gas and coal production and exploration.