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The race to a zero-emission world starts now | António Guterres

Take action on climate change at . “If we don’t act now on climate change, this coming century may be one of humanity’s last,” says António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations. As the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, Guterres urges us to use this moment to rebuild with ambitious climate action in mind…

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Take action on climate change at .

“If we don’t act now on climate change, this coming century may be one of humanity’s last,” says António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations. As the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, Guterres urges us to use this moment to rebuild with ambitious climate action in mind — and lays out a blueprint for getting companies, governments and countries to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. “We can only win the race to zero together,” he says. “I urge you all to get on board.”

This talk was part of the Countdown Global Launch on 10.10.2020. (Watch the full event here: .) Countdown is TED’s global initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis. The goal: to build a better future by cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, in the race to a zero-carbon world. Get involved at

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  1. Steve Smith

    October 18, 2020 at 6:50 pm

    It can never be zero okay never so let’s don’t talk about zero emissions f****** idiot

  2. Steve Smith

    October 18, 2020 at 6:51 pm

    Yeah just like the great job they did with Marshall islands bikini islands out there huh with their nuclear testing that they still still to this day do underground oh don’t worry it’s not going to hurt anything freaking idiots

  3. Steven Steel

    October 18, 2020 at 7:22 pm

    Fossil fuels are a lie, speak to a Geologist, he will tell you that it’s the own planet that forms the basins of oils. Not only that, after the basins are depleted, you can move on to another, and by the time the one where you moved away from, the previous one wold be restored, for the earth never stops working. Fossil fuels is a baseless teaching that was impletented and being forced on our scholars for over 200 years. Even to this day, no one can prove that fossil fuel is actually what we use, but a Geologist can prove that the earth itself forms the oil underground.

    Not only that, they are so worried with climate, but in reality it’s just an excuse to close down factories and raise unemployment rates, so that chaos is instaled in many territories.
    And it’s funny too, because the climate wont be colder, it will be hotter in fact, because every single day they bombard us with chemtrails. Why aren’t those planes shot down by our militaries of each respective territory? Well… to not waste your time and even blow out a few of your patient nerves, pick up a Bible (nwt version preferably) and read 1st John 5:19 and you’ll see what i mean. If you put 2 and 2 together, your little flag and your little anthem are nothing but one huge dialectic to forge excuses for dividing people so they can deliberatly accept chaos in their lives.

    Wich leads me to my final point for this comment: Military. The United Nations has it’s own claws in every single nation on the world, no exceptions here. You do something they don’t like, and you’ll have NATO and basically everything they can throw at it, your politicians wold have “accidents” and they will install someone far more “controlable” in there. Hey, worked for Venezuela, didn’t it? At least from their prespective it did…

    Make no mistake, United Nations are pure unadulterated EVIL! Everything they speak, you just observe, but NEVER believe. At least, don’t take it at face value, and every single sentence, every single phrase and every single meaning, you make sure you search well to see if what they are saying is true. From those people? I spit and call the name of God uppon them, because they are insignificant pawns of the wicked one, and if 1st Thessalonians 5:3 teaches us in the Sacred Scriptures is that they will not escape God’s Wrath!

    To those that support The World: *Be very afraid, for the patience of Jehovah is evaporating at incredible speeds. Soon Judgement day shall be uppon us all, but those who deal in wickedness shall not escape Gehenna.*
    Jesus Christ and his 12+ Legions of Angels are ready, but the order has not yet ben given. Do not test the power of the Kingdom!

    • Steven Steel

      October 18, 2020 at 7:56 pm

      PS: Wildfires are caused by DEW – Directed Energy Weapons. They are beams that comes from satelites in orbit of our planet. You will see houses burned down in the wildfires, but sometimes the houses are the only ones affected, for trees in properties are intact and untouched/not-damaged whatsoever. Its literally a plasma laser from space.
      Trivia: We never managed to go to the moon nor go to Mars even. Maybe drones, but even so i don’t buy it. Why not? Well, there is ALWAYS a reason for everything.
      Have you ever heard about Van Allen? Most particularly the radiation belt. See, that radiation belt burns your skin to a pulp, no spacesuit is able to witstand such bombardment, you literally either explode or melt. Maybe even both. And the circuits on board of any ship have imense interference and most of the time they shut down. God created Van Allen radiation belt. While satelites are waaay up there, they are not effectivelly in space, but in Ozone layer. Still on earth basically. That is why sometimes pieces of satelite fall down from space, its because satelites are not high enough to drift away. (and thus get blasted by Van Allen radiation belt)

      The cyclones are caused by HAARP weapon wich is basically a facility (various in fact) spread out throughout the world that have the ability to cause storms. One moment its a clear and sunny sky, the next it’s cloudy and rainy.

      Indeed this is the last century… for the Demons that is. For Humanity is under the protection of Jehovah God. He wold never allow such thing to happen. Quantum Mechanics’ scientists woldn’t deny his existance either, he is very much real. (As if Jesus Christ wasn’t enough proof that Jehovah was real)

      The “pandemic” is a fraud – A gigantic dialectic to skyrocket the global unemployment so that chaos is implemented everywhere. This is where the faith in God is tested.

      The United Nations will NOT build safer, fairer, and more resilient world. If anything, irony speaks louder here, for what they intend is to do EXACTLY the oposite.

      I will NOT get on board. I REFUSE to help the World. Let it burn. Choke on its fumes. But i am no part of this World. *_Whether your words are lies created to decieve me, or the truth, that i have sought all my life, it makes no difference. You will rot._*

  4. PW218

    October 18, 2020 at 7:27 pm

    “This needs to be done, that needs to be reduced.” Great ideas, but if there are basically zero solutions that are practically possible to be achieved, what’s the point of all the fancy talk? 15 minutes of fame.

  5. bravojr

    October 18, 2020 at 7:47 pm

    AGEN , Da.

  6. Sport Trolling

    October 18, 2020 at 7:53 pm

    Everyone can have a job today temporary but every one together to clean up the would and planting tree

  7. OneEarthOneLove

    October 18, 2020 at 8:02 pm

    2050 is thirty years from now. Respectfully, Secretary General, the world needs much faster policies put in place. Zero emissions and changeover to clean and free energy must begin NOW.

    • Charlie KING

      October 18, 2020 at 11:00 pm

      Well the earth said itself must be done ✅

  8. Elaine Holmes

    October 18, 2020 at 8:11 pm

    THIS IS ALL A LIE , NET 0 MEANS NO HUMANS AND NO ANIMALS, THEY SPRAY OUR SKIES WITH CHEM TRAILS AND THE GREEN NEW DEAL IS NOT FOR OUR BENIFET ,CHECK OUT YOUR CITIES CLIMATE ACTION PLAN ,AND WAKE UP BECAUSE IT DOESN’T INCLUDE YOU OR YOUR CHILDREN. .

  9. like storm

    October 18, 2020 at 8:13 pm

    #plant_is_burning

  10. jaseyray93

    October 18, 2020 at 8:32 pm

    I think it would be awesome if governments would help people financially with trading in their gas guzzling cars for electric cars and give people free bikes they can use instead of their cars.

  11. Gangerolf

    October 18, 2020 at 8:33 pm

    Strange. he talks about science but no data support his claims. I thought TED was on the side of science and not politics/global corporations.

  12. Short Answer Long Answer

    October 18, 2020 at 9:01 pm

    António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations is just talking a narrative without any facts to back up his assertions. Talk about zero, there is zero quantifiable facts that can prove that man made carbon emission is causing temperature rises or any of the ills that impact the Earth. It’s not scientific because it is all theoretical based on assumptions made under heavy political bias. Much of what is said can be debunked or is well within the norms of conditions on the Earth. Worse yet, many of the solutions proposed are counter productive or not proven to make any impact at all. Wind mills and solar panels are good examples. What is never talked about is the energy and emissions that is needed to create these devices to harvest so-called zero emission energy. They don’t tell you that the average life cycle of these devices is only about 20 years or less. Even if they were zero emissions it is very difficult to recover the capital investment required to implement them. Most of these venture would fail if they were not funded by government subsidies. You have to stop listening to these people because they have a politcal agenda and they are using a false narrative to carry forward their agenda. The Earth is doing just fine. I may be hard to believe but much of the Earth is unpopulated by man and it is so big that mans influence upon it is so negligible that it is hard to even qualify it. If you want to care about something what you need to focus on is clean energy and clean air and clean water. Those are the areas that need our attention. We need to focus on the prosperity of all the people of the Earth. So many better places to focus our time and effort.

  13. Butch Atkinson

    October 18, 2020 at 9:07 pm

    morons

    • Charlie KING

      October 18, 2020 at 11:07 pm

      LOL alright Buddy

  14. Ron Simmons

    October 18, 2020 at 9:10 pm

    Wrong, wrong, wrong. More fake news!! How sad.

    • Charlie KING

      October 18, 2020 at 11:15 pm

      Hey you have to let people talk either it’s true or false

  15. Erica Jamieson

    October 18, 2020 at 9:41 pm

    What year was this video done?

    • Charlie KING

      October 18, 2020 at 11:05 pm

      LOL 👏👏🏻👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿

  16. Dzikrina Saira

    October 18, 2020 at 9:53 pm

    Easier said than done really. I think, many people have been aware about this, but we don’t have many other alternatives. Hence, we use what is available.

  17. Are you threatening me, Master Jedi?

    October 18, 2020 at 10:32 pm

    The primary cause of the fires, of deforestation, drought, and despeciation is *animal agriculture*

    There is no way to even technically reach “zero emmisions” without abandoning the antiquated and barbaric practice of of cultivating a handful of species to kill yearly by the trillions at the cost of thousands of other species, all for greed and tradition.

    • andrew williams

      October 18, 2020 at 11:21 pm

      “Net zero means any emissions would be balanced by schemes to offset an equivalent amount of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, such as planting trees or using technology like carbon capture and storage”.

    • andrew williams

      October 18, 2020 at 11:22 pm

      In US the total acreage burnt in forest fires each year is DOWN by 80% since a peak in 1930.
      Amazon fires were misreported. The fires are farmers burning off stubble to prepare for next years crop. Annual deforestation in the Amazon has reduced from a peak in 2004.
      The global area of wildfire burnage each year is not increasing but likely trending down.

    • andrew williams

      October 18, 2020 at 11:22 pm

      In the USA the total acreage burnt in forest fires each year is DOWN by 80% since a peak in 1930.
      Amazon fires were misreported. The fires are farmers burning off stubble to prepare for next years crop. Annual deforestation in the Amazon has reduced from a peak in 2004.
      The global area of wildfire burnage each year is not increasing but likely trending down.

    • andrew williams

      October 18, 2020 at 11:25 pm

      It seems you can reduce CO2 emissions without reducing consumption, by eating beef cattle as veal could reduce the carbon footprint on these herds by up to 40%.
      The 2019 Australian Beef Sustainability Annual Update shows that the red meat industry reduced absolute emissions by almost 56 per cent from 2005-2016.

      See how a UK Salers herd aims to be carbon neutral by 2035

      According to Red Meat Advisory Council, Australia aims for it’s beef to be fully carbon-neutral by 2030.

      This newspaper article claims “The use of mob-grazing methods produces “healthier grassland, cattle grazed on rotation are said to increase the soil’s capacity to store carbon”… and can even reverse C02 emissions.

      Also it seems there is no increase in the number of ruminants on the planet, the number is roughly the same as 300 years ago when massive herds of bison roamed the earth (and methane emitting non ruminate elephants) . Satellite data does not show any evidence of high emissions of methane over Brazil and Ethiopia caused by the large cattle herds there. Are cows changing the climate? This presentation by the Global Warming Policy Forum concludes not.

      See website of Cows Milk and Climate. Clarifications by Professor Dr Peer Ederer

      Background:

  18. Donald Crabtree

    October 18, 2020 at 10:52 pm

    People can’t fix People problems how will they fix the earth which has recovered from fires and being hit from objects from space.

  19. Stevie-Ray

    October 19, 2020 at 12:11 am

    Most of the U.S.A. is still racing the other way, effectively wiping out any gains made by advancement such as renewable-energy, electric-vehicles, etc.

    • A. Mae

      October 19, 2020 at 8:57 am

      Check out how much energy is used to produce an electric car…

  20. free market

    October 19, 2020 at 12:22 am

    Wow the ted comment section wasn’t like this one 5 years ago. Loll

  21. Per Strandberg

    October 19, 2020 at 12:31 am

    This man and the UN are full of lies! The number of weather related disasters are not increasing. Even IPCC admits that. Weather disasters seems to be increasing because cable news channels need to fill their reporting with bad news. Bad news headline sells.

    • credenza1

      October 19, 2020 at 2:43 am

      Please don’t intrude facts into the discussion.

  22. Brice Holzer

    October 19, 2020 at 12:42 am

    WE DON’T WANT YOUR PROBLEM, REACTION, SOLUTION!!! 💥🇺🇸💥

  23. David Brown

    October 19, 2020 at 12:51 am

    Enjoy your pole shift and micro nova arseholes.

  24. TJ C.O.D.

    October 19, 2020 at 1:04 am

    War has the most emissions.

  25. André Jacques

    October 19, 2020 at 1:22 am

    And who Dares for it?

  26. Jon Wizard

    October 19, 2020 at 2:19 am

    we can start by getting rid of those greedy greedy politicians who are bought and paid for by large industry. Their greed has brought this species almost to its knees – they have to go and we can re-think and re-start the whole concept based on the Planet and humanity instead of company profits. It´s one minute to midnight…

  27. Steven Mayfield

    October 19, 2020 at 2:51 am

    Its already to late.

  28. Russell Gillick

    October 19, 2020 at 4:31 am

    Tax Carbon emissions instead of complex income, goods and service taxes. We pay taxes for going to work and spending that money keeping the economy going but we don’t just simply tax FF directly at the source ?

  29. max max

    October 19, 2020 at 4:43 am

    is this TED

  30. Vaibhav Pindikura

    October 19, 2020 at 7:57 am

    All this talk and barely any action. You can say as much complex vocabulary in your words, but they mean nothing if they’re not acted upon.

  31. Andrey V

    October 19, 2020 at 9:13 am

    They don’t only brainwash us, but make money on ads at the same time 😄

  32. Glen Risk

    October 19, 2020 at 10:33 am

    Your existence is at stake.

  33. Wahyuni Madinatul

    October 19, 2020 at 11:31 am

    Nakasi kesini ka tugasku

  34. André Marcondes Teixeira

    October 19, 2020 at 11:55 am

    1: People will just not accept to stop eating meat, so the emissions will never slow down significantly
    2: The rich will not accept a change in the status quo and allow society to be more equal, so an actual change will never happen

    • andrew williams

      October 19, 2020 at 7:38 pm

      It seems you can reduce CO2 emissions without reducing consumption, by eating beef cattle as veal could reduce the carbon footprint on these herds by up to 40%.
      The 2019 Australian Beef Sustainability Annual Update shows that the red meat industry reduced absolute emissions by almost 56 per cent from 2005-2016.

      See how a UK Salers herd aims to be carbon neutral by 2035

      According to Red Meat Advisory Council, Australia aims for it’s beef to be fully carbon-neutral by 2030.

      This newspaper article explains “The use of mob-grazing methods produces “healthier grassland, cattle grazed on rotation are said to increase the soil’s capacity to store carbon”… and can even reverse C02 emissions.

      Also it seems there is no increase in the number of ruminants on the planet, the number is roughly the same as 300 years ago when massive herds of bison roamed the earth (and methane emitting non ruminate elephants) . Satellite data does not show any evidence of high emissions of methane over Brazil and Ethiopia caused by the large cattle herds there. Are cows changing the climate? This presentation by the Global Warming Policy Forum concludes not.

      See website of Cows Milk and Climate. Clarifications by Professor Dr Peer Ederer

      Background:

  35. swag wale bhaiya

    October 19, 2020 at 2:57 pm

    Dont expect anything from gov they just sign on the treaty

    Now we the people need to join the hands to tackle the crisis

  36. George Gates

    October 19, 2020 at 3:34 pm

    Misleading video full of misinformation and propaganda. Using the threat of “climate change” as a reason to limit our freedoms , control us & tax us more in the name of “safety”. It`s easy to claim that it is a “crisis” when in reality it is not. There are real problems in this world that need to be taken care of. We need to stamp out the spread of socialism and communism in the United States.

  37. Raspurrtin Wolf

    October 19, 2020 at 4:56 pm

    Even if climate change wasn’t as bad as people think (which it is) – why wouldn’t we want to cut down on the fumes that spew from factories, cars, and exhaust?

  38. Evan Parent

    October 19, 2020 at 5:05 pm

    Humble yourself people, go Vegan; your body, the planet, and the future will thank you.

  39. jlouwat

    October 19, 2020 at 6:43 pm

    This is not political. This is the most important transition in human society. Godspeed.

  40. Anagnorisis- for the love of learning

    October 20, 2020 at 12:00 am

    The race to a zero-emission world should have started seventy years ago. Guys, you fucked up. Now, you don’t get to object to the people telling you what to do. Yes, it’s extreme measures. You ignored us until death was literally before you. Nothing else will make a lick of difference to our situation. Stop burning things. Period. Stop using industrialized food production. You don’t need it. Stop not thinking about the consequences of your actions. We’re all going to die if you don’t, and we’re all about to start stopping you if you continur to ignore it.

  41. Prady

    October 20, 2020 at 12:32 am

    It sounds like a broken record at this point, we’ve been hearing this same thing for YEARS. But no one is doing anything about it. Obviously this issue has gotten well past what an individual home can something about. I haven’t seen a single public effort by the large corporations or the government to actively move to more sustainable energy sources. And I really think they will not make that active leap until something drastic happens that causes the deaths of millions of people.

  42. Larry M. Aden

    October 20, 2020 at 3:49 pm

    This guy is a hyperbolic moron!
    Anyone calling for a tax on carbon, instead of a tax on calories, is entirely missing the easiest way to get every human personally involved in the most universally beneficial response to all detrimental man-made effects – conservation!

  43. Al Sajan

    October 20, 2020 at 6:15 pm

    Is there anything in nature that is zero emissions ?

  44. Master Mind Pc

    October 21, 2020 at 2:42 am

    Good Places Subscribed

  45. Nav Jindal

    October 21, 2020 at 10:30 am

    Alien 1: Its funny
    Alien 2: what?
    Alien 1: The word humans working together.

  46. Lisa Love Ministries

    October 21, 2020 at 12:03 pm

    Seek God’s will daily.
    Jeremiah 1:5 💞
    Romans 10:9
    John 3:16

  47. Noukz

    October 22, 2020 at 7:19 am

    From now on I’ll call anyone who works for the big oil and coal companies plus the car enthusiasts who hate on EVs – fossil fools! 🙂

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