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3 Ways Your Money Can Fight Climate Change | Veronica Chau | TED

What if we could solve the climate and housing crises at the same time? Financial institutions have pledged trillions to transform the economy and accelerate climate action — but right now, that money is not flowing at the speed it needs to, says sustainable investing expert Veronica Chau. Illuminating the links between climate change and…

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What if we could solve the climate and housing crises at the same time? Financial institutions have pledged trillions to transform the economy and accelerate climate action — but right now, that money is not flowing at the speed it needs to, says sustainable investing expert Veronica Chau. Illuminating the links between climate change and affordable housing, she suggests a playbook of moves to start mobilizing big money and transform climate financing challenges into opportunities.

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68 Comments

  1. Noah's Arkade

    May 18, 2023 at 10:41 am

    banks are NOT your friend. All these WEF members have the same playbook. They need the capital in your bank to implement their climate agenda. There is no crisis but they will create one.

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  3. Chet Leonard

    May 18, 2023 at 10:52 am

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  4. Chet Leonard

    May 18, 2023 at 11:00 am

    why are her feet so attractive?

  5. larranag

    May 18, 2023 at 11:08 am

    Thank you for promoting fair housing.

    • Mr Da Vinci

      May 18, 2023 at 2:34 pm

      Trash

  6. Max Wynn

    May 18, 2023 at 11:09 am

    Don’t worry about the money. This administration will simply print more.

  7. Self-Law

    May 18, 2023 at 11:14 am

    The climates have always changed. Nothing to fear. We all live and we all die. Life comes and life goes.FACTS.

  8. Shafiullah Rassuli

    May 18, 2023 at 11:17 am

    Step 1: don’t buy apple products

    • sachamm

      May 18, 2023 at 3:37 pm

      Apple is generally better than their competitors.

  9. Connor McDonogh

    May 18, 2023 at 11:19 am

    What climate risks? The hoaxes you are pushing? 🙄
    1. Fund real scientists like dr Patrick Moore to spread the truth about the “climate crisis” 2. Fund real scientists like dr Patrick Moore
    3. Fund people that shuts people like her up
    4. Again Fund real scientists

  10. Sinbad Silvius

    May 18, 2023 at 11:38 am

    all I see …”3 -ways you can support the climate change cause” SCAM

  11. mr nice

    May 18, 2023 at 11:42 am

    No such thing as the climate crisis, it’s climate change which has existed for millennia

  12. James Henderson

    May 18, 2023 at 11:44 am

    Imagine if we had a universal citizen ship fund where all humans were taxed 1% theb we put it in a mutal fund. Then a select few that would not be currupted by power nor force would decide where it was allocated. 80% would grow slowly over time… In 40 years it would be hundreds if trillions. 🖤🦢🦢🖤🖤🖤😈😈😈🃏🎮💯🦄🚀

  13. ronkirk50

    May 18, 2023 at 12:29 pm

    One difference I’ve noticed between the U.S. and Canada with regard to housing is the mortgage tax deduction in the U.S. results in the building of much bigger houses which require more resources -materials, labor and energy. The planet can no longer afford this status seeking nonsense. I’m encouraged by the tiny house movement which I plan to be a part of when I finally decide to settle down.

    • Joey

      May 18, 2023 at 1:32 pm

      There is no shortage of resources or energy in the world. That’s completely fabricated by those who benefit from your fear.

  14. Serps

    May 18, 2023 at 12:31 pm

    First mistake was trusting them “banks and investors”

  15. chem chem

    May 18, 2023 at 12:36 pm

    In the 80s everyone was panicking about global cooling, now they are panicking about something else. Maybe you should stop and think deeply before spending money?

  16. Be My Art

    May 18, 2023 at 1:27 pm

    Better use those money to solve economic inequality and give people who wish to have children opportunity for it. Retirement will be old myth soon if nothing will change. People are working 12 hr/7 day and barely making living. That’s much bigger problem.

    • Rio Luna

      May 20, 2023 at 11:57 pm

      you should see when food prices go up because of climate change 🙂

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    May 18, 2023 at 1:36 pm

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  18. The Life Of Yaxx

    May 18, 2023 at 3:06 pm

    Damn, I don’t see why the “people in power” spend gorrilions on wars but when it comes to “climate change” we the people have to soon eat the bugs and deal with carbon allowance

  19. Witchy Poo

    May 18, 2023 at 4:08 pm

    Yes. Don’t donate because it’s all bullshit! F’in liars!!!!

  20. Ye Tao

    May 18, 2023 at 4:15 pm

    Exactly, increasing investment for more growth is exactly the solution for overshoot.

  21. virgil fulton

    May 18, 2023 at 4:45 pm

    Banking talking about issues exacerbated by the policies of banking thinking that more banking is the answer.

  22. Adam Binnie

    May 18, 2023 at 5:00 pm

    Load of Bull

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    May 18, 2023 at 5:56 pm

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  24. Alex

    May 18, 2023 at 7:32 pm

    Screw the climate hahah this country need helps. This world need helps.

  25. Patrick Goldsmith

    May 18, 2023 at 11:14 pm

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  26. cybersekkin

    May 19, 2023 at 4:58 am

    There is a type of housing that doesn’t require high rises. In fact packing lots of people into a small space correlates to increased crime and other factors.

  27. Janos Miko

    May 19, 2023 at 6:11 am

    And how much money will be needed to keep fixing the climate in perpetuity Veronica? Since I’m sure you know the stellar evolution of the Sun has (always) been increasing 10% brightness per billion years and will continue this pace till it radically accelerates once it begins fusing helium

    • Geekabibble

      May 20, 2023 at 2:05 am

      Hopefully in a billion years (if we are still around, lol) we will have figured out a lot more about ways to make cleaner energy. Also cleaner ways to manufacture, etc.
      If not, then there’s no hope anyway, lol.
      Not that I’m agreeing with anything said in this presentation, I left after a minute as it sounded like it was going to turn into rah rah all the little people need to spend their money on this while all the rich people will get richer. XD

    • Janos Miko

      May 20, 2023 at 9:07 am

      @Geekabibble so this is a TEMPORARY “solution” how temporary? 5 years or 5000 years? and is the $4 trillion annual also temporary? Maybe if we move to hovels we could do better and spend $40 trillion annually? until HOPEFULLY something improves? You do realize tho meantime a solar flare of large enough magnitude and direction is unpredictable unstoppable and can wipe out a thousand years of human “climate correction” in a week?

    • Geekabibble

      May 20, 2023 at 9:38 am

      @Janos Miko I was just responding to your “Sun has (always) been increasing 10% brightness per billion years” comment.
      As I said in my comment, I stopped watching the vid before a minute yadda yadda yadda. Not going to retype it all, lol.

  28. Trevor Milliner

    May 19, 2023 at 7:13 am

    Individualsworking individually for their own interest will not solve this problem. That’s what got us here.

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    May 19, 2023 at 7:28 pm

    That was excellent, thank you for that. Inspirational.

    • emme ayoub

      May 23, 2023 at 3:45 pm

      What was so “excellent” about her talk?

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      May 23, 2023 at 3:57 pm

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  32. Old Scientist

    May 19, 2023 at 8:12 pm

    Give me your money. Please give me your money.

  33. Old Scientist

    May 19, 2023 at 8:12 pm

    Give me your money. Please give me your money. There is no climate crisis. 10% decline in natural disasters since 2000. Accumulated cyclone energy shows no increasing trend. Global hurricane landfalls shows no trend. Downward global trend for total hurricaine numbers. NOAA: “We conclude that the historical Atlantic hurricane data at this stage do not provide compelling evidence for a substantial greenhouse warming-induced century-scale increase in: frequency of tropical storms, hurricanes, or major hurricanes, or in the proportion of hurricanes that become major hurricanes.” NOAA data 1851-2021 shows no trend in number of hurricaine landfalls with the record high being 1886. The trend for over 7 decades has been downwards in the Pacific as well.
    Drought appears to be decreasing globally measured by SPI 1901-2017.
    Global trends show no increasing flooding frequency or severity.
    For every million people on earth, annual deaths from climate-related causes have declined 98%.
    Deserts have shrunk considerably since the 1980’s. The Sahara shrank by 12,000km² per year 1984-2015.
    The Earth has greened by 15% or more in a human lifetime.
    The Great Barrier Reef’s coral cover has reached the greatest extent ever recorded.
    On extinction the rate is very low: 900 known lost species for 2.1 million known species in 500 years, so from observations there are an average of slightly less than 2 species lost every year.
    Global temperatures maxed out in 2016 and have been lower ever since.
    There is no climate crisis.

  34. Monica A

    May 20, 2023 at 2:30 am

    It’s all about the money. Companies and the government don’t care about climate change or about our opinion.

  35. Luther Steinboch

    May 20, 2023 at 3:17 am

    This is just another FEAR MONGERING by the UN and the NWO Globalist “Elites” to CONTROL the people of this world. The UN and the NWO Globalists “Elites” DO NOT OWN the world. The so-called “scientists” of the UN-controlled IPCC will definitely follow the narrative of the “hand that feeds them”. Here are some of the predictions of these “Global Warming/Climate Change” propagandists that never came true:
    1967: ‘Dire famine by 1975.’
    1969: ‘Everyone will disappear in a cloud of blue steam by 1989.’
    1970: ‘Ice age by 2000’
    1970: ‘America subject to water rationing by 1974 and food rationing by 1980.’
    1971: ‘New Ice Age Coming in 2021’
    1988: ‘Increase in regional drought in 1990s’
    ‘Ocean levels will rise from one to six feet.’
    ‘Maldives completely under water in 30 years.’
    1989: ‘Rising seas to ‘obliterate’ nations by 2000.’
    2000: ‘Children won’t know what snow is.’
    2002: ‘Famine in 10 years.’
    2008: ‘Al Gore warns of ice-free Arctic by 2013’
    2008: ‘Arctic will be ice-free by 2018’
    2009: ‘Prince Charles says only 8 years to save the planet’
    2009: ‘Al Gore: Polar ice cap may disappear by summer 2014.’
    2013: ‘Prof. Peter Wadhams: Ice-free Arctic in 2 years.’
    2014: ‘French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius: 500 days to avoid climate chaos.’
    It’s time for King Charles, Al Gore, John Kerry, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and their understudy Greta (How dare you!) Thunberg to STOP promoting this hoax climate change that is being championed by the Aristocracy of Europe led by King Charles! Less and less people are buying what they are selling. World climate has been changing since biblical times. Our Creator designed it that way. Read the Bible for your better enlightenment! Better still, DON’T PLAY GOD!

    • Rio Luna

      May 20, 2023 at 11:55 pm

      el niño is here , you would feel it i would pay significant ammount of money to see your face when you realize that you were wrong ..

    • Luther Steinboch

      May 22, 2023 at 12:36 pm

      @Rio Luna The El Nino and La Nina weather patterns have been around since the creation of the world. They did not happen just 2 or 3 centuries ago at the start of the 1st Industrial Revolution. You may do more research on your own.

  36. eric

    May 20, 2023 at 6:09 am

    C.C.P. Propaganda, you surprised me ted, you fell for it.

  37. Clear The Logic

    May 20, 2023 at 11:19 pm

    In order to globally reach net zero carbon by 2050, you would need 180 years worth of the 2019 production of copper, 380 year’s worth of the production of nickel, 1600 year’s worth of the production of cobalt, 6700 year’s worth of graphite, and 9400 year’s worth of lithium. (Associate Research Professor Simon Michaux from Geological Survey of Finland) GTK (published August 20, 2021). The most interesting statistic to me is the amount of lithium needed. With states like California outright banning the sale of new cars that are not electric by 2035, it is extremely obvious that that law is impossible, it cannot work.

    Search the internet, can you find a scientist that says that we can get net zero in 7 years with current production of materials? If you listen to what scientists are saying on this topic, you will be overwhelmed by the deafening roar of silence. Try to find anyone discussing this topic, and see if you can find any reliable source that give figures to show that we can, in fact, cut our emissions to zero with much less materials. Even if the first number, 180 years worth of copper, was 10 times too high, that would still be 18 years of copper production. That 18 years means that all the copper production goes for being green, nobody else gets any copper. That cannot work. You still can’t get 18 years worth of copper in 7 years, when the alarmists are claiming terrible things will start to happen, even though many climatologists don’t agree. Let’s face it, we couldn’t do it in 100 years.

    Consider that scientists say that only 10% of the CO2 in the air comes from cars. If we managed somehow to reduce the number of electric cars by 20%, that would save 20% of the 10%. Calculate that, and it only reduces total CO2 emissions by 2%. Is that going to make a difference?

    • Rio Luna

      May 21, 2023 at 12:08 am

      nuclear energy was the way but the enviromentalist ironically destroyed their best ally , now you can be for certain that we go for 3 C degress of diference in temperatures .. i guess humanity already peaked

  38. Rio Luna

    May 21, 2023 at 12:06 am

    this is an insult to people who really are worried and doing something about climate change ….she talked for several minutes and she didnt say anything relevant. how is she in a ted talks blows my mind . humanity is doomed .

  39. Ull stepson Thor

    May 21, 2023 at 8:04 am

    ahahahhaah🤡🤡🤡🤡

  40. Mike Sackmary

    May 21, 2023 at 4:52 pm

    Sending your money to Socialist and Communist organizations does NOTHING to fight climate change

  41. TheErik249

    May 21, 2023 at 5:52 pm

    This is actually the truth about the climate change industry.
    It’s not about science.
    It’s about money.
    If there was no money in the climate change scam then nobody would be talking about any of this.
    This woman is doing nothing more than profiting off of our misery and our fear.
    The worst part about this is that big government and big corporations are all in on this ponzi scheme.
    Another investment based on a lie.
    That means that the investment will one day crash.

  42. DerangedLeftWingers

    May 22, 2023 at 1:28 am

    1966: Oil Gone In Ten Years
    1967: One Famine Forecast By 1975
    1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
    1969: Everyone Will Disappear In A Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989
    1970: World Will Use Up All Its Natural Resources By 2000
    1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks By 1985
    1970: Nitrogen Buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
    1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill All The Fish
    1970: Ice Age By 2000
    1970: America Subject To Water Rationing By 1974, Food Rationing By 1980
    1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 Or 2030
    1972: New Ice Age By 2070
    1972: Oil Depleted In 20 Years
    1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
    1974: Ozone Depletion A Great Peril To Life
    1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines Imminent
    1977: Department Of Energy Says Oil Will Peak In 90s
    1978: No End In Sight To 30-Year Cooling Trend
    1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes
    1980: Peak Oil In 2000
    1988: Regional Droughts (That Never Happened) In 1990s
    1988: Temperatures In DC Will Hit Record Highs
    1989: Maldive Islands Will Be Underwater By 2018
    1989: Rising Sea Levels Will Obliterate Nations By 2000
    1989: NYC West Side Highway Underwater By 2019
    1995: Most East Coast U.S. Beaches Gone In 25 Years
    1996: Peak Oil In 2020
    2000: Children Won’t Know What Snow Is
    2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, And Dairy
    2002: Peak Oil In 2010
    2004: Britain Will Be Like Siberia By 2024
    2005: Manhattan Will Be Underwater By 2015
    2006: Super Hurricanes!
    2008: Arctic Will Be Ice Free By 2018
    2008: Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic By 2013
    2009: Prince Charles Says We Have 96 Months To Save World
    2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days Left To “Save The Planet From Catastrophe”
    2009: Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction Of Ice-Free Arctic To 2014
    2013: Arctic Ice-Free Prediction Moved To 2015
    2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’
    2018: Glacier National Park Will Be Glacier-Free By 2020
    2018: Artic Ice-Free Prediction Moved To 2022
    2019: AOC: “World Is Gonna End In 12 Years If We Don’t Address Climate Change.”
    2020: Nevermind, COVID Is Going To Kill All You Useless Eaters Anyway
    2021: Southern US Unlivable By 2080, Too Hot & Dry (But Central America Still OK)
    2022: Artic Ice-Free Prediction Moved To 2050

  43. Ge Kl

    May 22, 2023 at 5:04 pm

    Well done

  44. emme ayoub

    May 23, 2023 at 3:47 pm

    What does being Black and paying $250 more on electricity bills more than Whites have to do with anything? 😂

  45. Marilyn Acoman

    May 23, 2023 at 3:49 pm

    She said we got money to fix this we just don’t got the TLC . Shucks

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      May 23, 2023 at 7:32 pm

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