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Jim Hagemann Snabe: Dreams and details for a decarbonized future | TED Countdown

As chairman of the world’s largest maritime shipping company, Jim Hagemann Snabe thinks a lot about how goods get where they need to go and the impact their journey has on the planet. Leading the effort to decarbonize shipping by 2050, he shares a plan to convert green electricity into green liquid fuel to power…

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As chairman of the world’s largest maritime shipping company, Jim Hagemann Snabe thinks a lot about how goods get where they need to go and the impact their journey has on the planet. Leading the effort to decarbonize shipping by 2050, he shares a plan to convert green electricity into green liquid fuel to power vessels in a process called “power-to-X” — and urges global leaders to join the voyage towards an innovative, sustainable and fast-approaching future.

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  1. 1 ꜱᴜʙ ʙᴇꜰᴏʀᴇ 2023? 🅥

    February 22, 2022 at 4:03 pm

    Literally to the 1% who’s reading this, God bless you, and may your dreams come true, stay safe and have a wonde‎rful day. ❤️

    • {-_-} APEX PREDATOR 101

      February 22, 2022 at 4:59 pm

      Who is “god” SPECIFICALLY? What is “bless” PRECISELY?

    • Romanski

      February 23, 2022 at 2:08 am

      I think they mean the Islamic god as described in the qu’ran.

  2. TennesseeJed

    February 22, 2022 at 4:06 pm

    I hope it ain’t too late.

  3. Widlerlep

    February 22, 2022 at 4:07 pm

    Put GOD Fist in all the thing you gonna do
    And you will see the results💯🙏

    • Dan Cattell Art

      February 22, 2022 at 4:54 pm

      Nah.

    • {-_-} APEX PREDATOR 101

      February 22, 2022 at 4:59 pm

      @Dan Cattell Art 🤘

    • Jh5578

      February 22, 2022 at 5:26 pm

      Which God?

    • Steve Jones

      February 22, 2022 at 6:29 pm

      God is man’s creation.

    • fiona fiona

      February 23, 2022 at 7:16 am

      Beyond obvious critique of Theism and Deism, religious people tend to be less engaged beyond their in-group and transition slower to obviously necessary safety procedures (be it gun storage, recycling or traffic control).

  4. يتيمة فقيرة

    February 22, 2022 at 4:08 pm

    اناشد الله ثم أهل القلوب الرحيمه يا ناس يا أمة محمد ﻫﻞ ﻳﺮﺿﻴﻜﻢ ﺃﻥ ﺃﺧﻮﺍﻧﻲ ﻳﺒﻜﻮﻥ ﻭﻳﻤﻮﺗﻮﻥ ﻣﻦ ﺍﻟﺠﻮﻉ ﻭﺃﻧﺘﻢ ﻣﻮﺟﻮﺩﻭﻥ ﻳﻌﻠﻢ ﺍﻟﻠﻪ ﺍﻟﻌﻠﻲ ﺍﻟﻌﻈﻴﻢ ﺃﻧﻨﺎ ﻻ ﻧﻤﻠﻚ ﺣﺘﻰ ﻗﻴﻤﺔ ﻛﻴﻠﻮ ﺩﻗﻴﻖ ﺃﺑﻲ ﻣﺘﻮﻓﻲ ﻭﺃﺧﻮﺍﻧﻲ ﺻﻐﺎﺭ ﻟﻴﺲ ﻟﻨﺎ ﺃﺣﺪ ﺃﻗﺴﻢ ﺑﺎﻟﻠﻪ ﺍﻟﻌﻈﻴﻢ ﺃﻧﻬﻢ ﻧﺎﻣﻮﺍ ﺃﻣﺲ ﺟﻮﻋﺎﻧﻴﻦ ﻭﻫﻢ ﻳﺒﻜﻮﻥ ﻭﺍﻟﺪﻣﻮﻉ ﺟﻔﺖ ﻣﻦ ﺍﻟﺒﻜﺎﺀ ﻳﺎﺃﻫﻞ ﺍﻟﺨﻴﺮ ﻫﻞ ﻳﺮﺿﻴﻜﻢ ﺃﻧﻨﺎ ﻣﻦ ﺃﻣﺲ ﻟﺤﺪ ﺍﻵﻥ ﺑﺪﻭﻥ ﺃﻛﻞ ﻳﺎﺃﺧﻮﺓ ﺍﻹﺳﻼﻡ ﻧﺤﻦ ﺃﺳﺮﻩ ﺃﻳﺘﺎﻡ ﻭﻧﺎﺯﺣﻴﻦ ﻭﻣﺸﺮﺩﻳﻦ مستأجرين بيت الشهر ب 14 الف رياال والان صارت علينا 42 الف ايجار ثلاثه شهور وصاحب البيت كل ساعه يجي يبهدلنا ويهددنا بالطرد واحنا لا نتملك قوت يومنا نزحنا من بيوتنا بسبب الحرب وعايشين اناوامي واخوتي سغار والدنا متوفي الله يرحمه ومامعنا أحد في هذا الدنيا يقف جاانبنا في هذه الظروف القاسيه ﺃﺭﺟﻮﻭﻛﻢ ﺳﺎﻋﺪﻭﻧﺎ ﻭﻓﺮﺣﻮﻧﺎ ﺃﺭﺟﻮﻛﻢ ﺃﻭﻗﻔﻮﺍ ﻣﻌﻨﺎ ﻭﺍﻟﻠﻪ ﺍﻟﻌﻈﻴﻢ ﺃﻧﻨﺎ ﺑﺄﻣﺲ ﺍﻟﺤﺎﺟﻪ انابنت عيني بصيره ويدي قصيره ليس لي أب مثلكم واخواني سغار شوف كيف حالتهم وساعدنا وأنقذنا قبل أن يطردونا في الشارع نتبهدل أو نموت من الجوع أنا اقسم بالله الذي رفع سبع سموات بلاعمدوبسط الارض ومهدها اني لااكذب عليكم بحرف من هذا الرساله واني ماطلبتكم إلا من ضيق ومن قسوة الضروف والحال الذي احنافيه وانا واسرتي نسـﺄﻟﻜﻢ ﺑﺎﻟﻠﻪ ﻳﺎﺃﻫﻞ ﺍﻟﺨﻴﺮ ﺍﻟﻲ ﻋﻨﺪﻩ ﺍﻟﻘﺪﺭﻩ ﻋﻠﻰ ﻣﺴﺎﻋﺪﺗﻨﺎ لايتاخر علينا للحظة هذا رقمي واتساب 967716183307+ اللي يستطيع يساعدنا يراسلني واتساب الله يجزيكم خير

    • Dan Cattell Art

      February 22, 2022 at 4:54 pm

      Hard pass.

    • Jh5578

      February 22, 2022 at 5:25 pm

      You can’t afford flour but have access to internet? I don’t buy it.

  5. Hüseyin Susan

    February 22, 2022 at 4:09 pm

    I met Jim in person. He has a really open heart, he approaches people with a big smile and you feel that he is an awesome leader. I hope Jim will also sign good projects for our environment and inspire young people. Praying for you bro.

    ( Greetings from Turkey )

  6. Daniel 357

    February 22, 2022 at 4:11 pm

    This chit is funny. I want to know his plan for making volcanos to stop. Because 95% of the carbon emissions in the air is from volcanos. Car emissions don’t even make a full 5 percent and neither does manufacturing. But the biggest polluter in the world China has eaten all other countries so called carbon savings and gone beyond making the so called green tech for themselves and everyone else. And guess what. China outlook is using more newer coal power plants because the 30 years of green tech cannot keep up. One volcanic eruption eats five years of the most efficient countries so called carbon savings. One pop. The world averages 11-45 eruptions a year.

    • Romanski

      February 23, 2022 at 2:07 am

      Where do you get this number from? I would like to check up on your sources.

    • Daniel 357

      February 23, 2022 at 2:13 am

      @Romanski the climate scientist’s , volcanic geological scientists who posted it and nasa. Now your questioning the science. Typical eco terrorist.

  7. ferhat demir

    February 22, 2022 at 4:16 pm

    Save our planet.

  8. Aaron Oneal

    February 22, 2022 at 4:20 pm

    Ted needs to talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants tress the

    • Dan Cattell Art

      February 22, 2022 at 4:55 pm

      Planting trees is not enough.

  9. lou e

    February 22, 2022 at 4:47 pm

    I am all for technology solutions and whatever we can do to change the damage we have done. But we keep seeming to forgot that our whole food system must change to really make a difference. We can still feed the world and even ship food to other places but the methods used have to change. We loose millions of tons of topsoil every year from plowing fields. No matter how many chemicals you put on the land it will not be able to grow food in just a few decades. We must switch to a regenerative system. Just being organic is not enough. Put animals back on pasture. Stop feeding them modified corn and other grains they don’t need or even process right. Not to mention how much healthier it would be for people consuming them. And we would not be plowing up all the millions of acres to grow the corn to feed them. Most of the corn grown is not as food for people it is to feed cows in feed lots that stand in feet of there own waste. That makes them sick makes our water shed sick. And us sick. Even the grains that are grown for direct food has been so changed it is not good for us. Even our vegetables are full of harmful bacteria and cause horrible outbreaks of ecolli. And other harmful even deadly disease. If we really want things to change our food system must change.

    • Dan Cattell Art

      February 22, 2022 at 4:56 pm

      Not only is “organic” not enough, it is pseudoscience doing harm.

    • Jh5578

      February 22, 2022 at 5:29 pm

      The regenerative ag thing is bogus. You can restore soils without farm animals by using cover crops, green manures and nitrogen fixing plants. Go and read the actual scientific literature and you will see they support plant based diets in order to help the environment. The IPCC themselves even state that a Vegan diet is the best scalable diet for the planet.

    • lou e

      February 22, 2022 at 5:52 pm

      @Jh5578 having animals as part of nature is not a bad thing. If you want to be vegan great but don’t press your views on others. And an all vegan diet is not good for everyone. I have colitis and tried going vegan it made everything worse. Even Palio was not good for me at first. I had to go nearly all carnivore before it started to get better. I can now add in veggies and fruit which I love. But it is a slow process. I do think for most people a more plant based diet it optimal. But no one system is great for everyone. And if you eat vegan so not to harm animals then don’t buy commercial grown plants thousands of animals are killed in the process. One organic farmer if avocados said he has kill thousands of ground squirrels to stop them from destroying his trees. Not to mention all the other animals that are killed in fields from machinery. And as far as the science goes I have seen many studies that prove having animals as part of the regenerative system is a much more holistic approach.

    • Jh5578

      February 22, 2022 at 11:14 pm

      @lou e I never said having animals as part of nature was a bad thing.

      Dude you just “pressed your views” on pseudoscience regen animal ag, we are all free to voice our own opinions, not that I “pressed” anything I simply stated what the authority on climate change the IPCC said, that Vegan diets are best for the environment.

      The Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics, the World Health Organisation, the NHS, Mayo Clinic, Clevland Clinic, the dietetics associations of Britain, of Canada & Australia all state: Vegan diets are healthy for all ages and lower risk of heart disease and T2 diabetes. This is the science. Your anecdotes simply aren’t good evidence. Gastroenterologists seem to stress the need for adequate fibre in the diet.

      I’m a Vegan not a pacifist, I’m not even a pacifist towards humans. Humans die in car crashes and home invasions, animals die by getting hit by machines and being killed as pests… none of these deaths are ideal or desirable and we should work to minimise them, however I see no deontological moral problem. Veganic farming and vertical farming can dramatically reduce animal deaths in plant farming in future. Regardless even if you look at it consequentially far less animals die in plant ag compared to animal ag even if you compare it to grass fed beef. The amount of plant food you get per hectare is monumentally larger compared to high welfare meat. The Davis rebuttal concludes “to obtain the 20 kilograms of protein per year recommended for adults, a vegan would kill 0.3 wild animals
      annually, a lacto-vegetarian would kill 0.39 wild animals, while a welfare
      omnivore diet would kill 1.5 wild animals” (tbf if someone ate a diet of all plants except hunted game that would result in fewer deaths than a Vegan diet and arguably be better for the environment too, however such a diet cannot be scaled to a large population and is deontologically indefensible);

      Again the IPCC say Vegan is best as does the Joseph Poore Oxford study. Plus you can do regen ag without methane emiting cows.
      “Green Manure aka mulch had higher contents of organic matter and numbers of microfauna than
      fertilised soils, and were more enriched in P, K, Ca and Mg in topsoils and nitrate N, Ca and Mg in
      subsoils. Manured soils also had lower bulk density and higher porosity, hydraulic conductivity
      and aggregate stability, relative to fertilised soils. There was no significant difference
      (P < 0.05) between fertilisers and manures in their long-term effects on crop production." "Cover crops are usually leguminous to improve soil health by guaranteeing permanent soil cover, adding organic matter to soil and fixing atmospheric nitrogen. *These help reverse soil degradation."* (I can't put extranal links to these sources because YouTube blocks stuff now.)

    • Mr. C

      February 22, 2022 at 11:17 pm

      Your ideas are admirable and have merit, but , they’re not cost effective.

    • Jh5578

      February 23, 2022 at 7:21 am

      @fiona fiona Sure it could be used in certain areas in certain edge cases. But I don’t think that was their claim.

      Regardless in 7 to 8 years lab grown meat will be in supermarkets at price parity with with slaughter meat and the price will keep falling from there. Lab meat is far better for the environment. A vegan / lab meat diet globally could free up an area the land the size of Africa. Currently ~90% of the large animal biomass across the world are our farm animals, only ~10% wild. The wild animals are losing their habitats and going extinct in droves.The more land we can give back the better, *even* in the remote areas you’re referring to imo.

    • fiona fiona

      February 23, 2022 at 7:59 am

      @Jh5578 lab growing still has disproportionate environmental impact, even after accounting for the Protein balance in plant source and my mom can’t fathom using either, next decade or before she and the remaining Boomers participate in Human population declining on this planet again.

      I don’t paticulary care for mystery goop or “chicken nuggets” before market acces in my region of the world

    • Jh5578

      February 23, 2022 at 6:10 pm

      @fiona fiona You are incorrect about lab meat being particularly harmful to the environment. Growing meat from cells is far, far more efficient than growing meat in the body of an animal which requires the growth of unwanted matter like bones, organs, skin, brains etc. The amount of energy required for lab meat is miniscule in comparison. Read the Rethinkx paper if you actually want to see the data.

      Yeah I don’t care what you and your mum think. Financial analyst Rethinkx are betting on slaughter ag going bankruptcy in the 2030s.

    • fiona fiona

      February 23, 2022 at 6:16 pm

      @Jh5578 Lab growing isn’t any more impactful than refining necessary sugars and chemicals… making is less harmful than factory farmed fish or chicken but more so than plant based protein, even cashrop peanut water export.

    • Jh5578

      February 23, 2022 at 7:27 pm

      @fiona fiona Take it up with Rethinkx

  10. CANAL SENTIR

    February 22, 2022 at 5:05 pm

    Hi from Mexico! Excellent vid as always from this TED Talks series! Yes that is a great polluter right now for sure, the global shipping industry! ..(also the airline industry). Excellent new techology discussed in this video! thank you! We also are putting out a series of how people can directly get involved and help fight the environmental problems/global warming. We make mostly highly creative vids and some documentaries.

  11. Anas Belkrimi mohamad

    February 22, 2022 at 5:06 pm

    The problem and the solution to this problem… before the hereafter is a time when there is no solution for planet earth.
    God does not interfere, the solution is in the seriousness, the solution is for 95% of the people to be in this solution! .

    • {-_-} APEX PREDATOR 101

      February 22, 2022 at 5:11 pm

      “‘god’ does not interfere,” so what’s the point? Sounds like “he” doesn’t “love” u at all haha.

      “Religion is legalized MADNESS” – someone else who makes sense.

    • Anas Belkrimi mohamad

      February 22, 2022 at 5:32 pm

      Thank you_Planet Earth This is the creativity of the Creator of the universe! And man bears the responsibility of taking care of this planet! According to the Qur’an..and religion is from God’s speech to this person! And the human being according to the understanding of this speech..,

  12. Jh5578

    February 22, 2022 at 5:22 pm

    The only way this would work is if governments around the world start pricing in extranalities. It shouldn’t be free to dump GHGs into the atmosphere like an open sewer.

  13. GregJ

    February 22, 2022 at 6:37 pm

    Sucks to be a carbon based human being these days.

    • fiona fiona

      February 23, 2022 at 7:13 am

      Why? human life could be carbon neutral and have been for 150 thousand years of our history as a species.

  14. hoppynaki

    February 22, 2022 at 11:24 pm

    I find it disturbing that dozens of new homes are being built in my city, yet hardly a solar panel in site.

  15. Zenn Exile

    February 23, 2022 at 3:20 am

    Fueling this psychopathic wealth consolidator’s future isn’t a solution. And this is not a discovery. It’s always been extremely easy to use solar power to separate hydrogen from water. The only thing this trash human thinks alot about is how to make more money.

  16. Studio Skies And Water

    February 23, 2022 at 4:33 am

    …and we need everyone to stop eating animal products cause that is straight up bad for the environment, our health and is unethical. If you get your food from groceries, choose plants; it helps so much…

  17. Chandni Joshi

    February 23, 2022 at 2:13 pm

    enjoyed this a lot, gave me hope

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