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Nigel Topping has a cool job: he’s the UK’s High Level Climate Action Champion for COP26, the UN’s climate change conference taking place in 2021. In this wide-ranging interview, Topping discusses his work with scientists, businesses and cities to drive action on climate change and get the world committed to net zero emissions by 2050. He also explains why he thinks the COVID-19 pandemic could accelerate the transition to a green economy, creating jobs that will last and building a cleaner world for us all. (This virtual conversation, hosted by TED global curator Bruno Giussani and current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers, was recorded May 26, 2020.)
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Mehdi Baghbadran
June 30, 2020 at 6:00 pm
All the country must be related together, and helping each other to run their country, and this will be possible.
Sandy Santigo
June 30, 2020 at 6:05 pm
These people actually think we can end Typhoons? That the climate can be equitable? That’s when I realized this whole conversation is made in a vacuum of unicorns & rainbows. This is all bullshit. There have always been typhoons & glaciers melting & freezing. All if these happened before coal & gas use. Stop littering & pouring crap in the water. There is no static climate. These folks have all bought into the quackery.
Arcux
June 30, 2020 at 6:13 pm
Never let a good tragedy go to waste, right?
mrspeigle1
June 30, 2020 at 6:14 pm
I love these people who speak about the economy as if it’s just something that can be steered with a Twist of a steering wheel, as if there would be no consequences for switching to demonstrably more expensive methods of producing energy and food, as if there would be no knock-on effects or unintended consequences that will affect people other than the academic Intelligentsia bubble they live in. You want to make the economy green, make green more profitable, make battery electric vehicles cheaper than their gasoline-electric counterparts at the sticker level not just an abstract true cost of ownership calculation. build solar panels and battery packs that are so ridiculously cheap you could install them in your home and have them pay for themselves in less than 10 years. create drones that can take over crop dusting oh, drop the cost of greenhouse operations down lower than the cost of basic soil operations. Stop pushing this nonsense of people buying cars that cost $35,000 when people can barely afford a $14,000 car,
Arcux
June 30, 2020 at 6:15 pm
The end goal of all the climate change rhetoric has always been to co-opt the economies of the world. Now they bare their fangs.
Xander D
June 30, 2020 at 6:20 pm
Does anyone know the wedding date of Trump & The Stock Market?
Bear Ass
June 30, 2020 at 6:26 pm
like it wasnt the plan all along
Daniel Quinn
June 30, 2020 at 6:30 pm
The number of people commenting here *convinced* that their Facebook research has rendered the truth while the world’s scientists are all conspiring to lie about this is astounding. You people need to get out of the way.
Derek Heckley
June 30, 2020 at 6:48 pm
Many of the most talented and accomplished climate scientists don’t agree. As a result they have had their characters slandered and careers ended by fanatical climate bigots. Are you suggesting allowing topical discussion by experts is wrong and that they too should ‘get out of the way’? The latest IPCC report says that there is no increase in frequency or intensity of floods, wildfires, hurricanes, or other weather events. So is this man lying or is the IPCC. Check your cjw privilege!
garry G Ballard
June 30, 2020 at 6:36 pm
🙌🙌🙌 Excellent 🙌🙌🙌 Our political ideals need to flip 180 degrees for this to be successful.
Big Dee
June 30, 2020 at 6:42 pm
The scumbags removed my comment
Alex W
June 30, 2020 at 6:43 pm
This opportunity is one which must be taken with both hands we must push for a greener economy and for some changes that have been made to be made permanent for example more cycle lanes helping to reduce reliance on cars.
Johnny
June 30, 2020 at 6:56 pm
Nonsense. Carry your new bed on that bike!
Finn MacCool
June 30, 2020 at 6:44 pm
The speaker in this video is more evil beyond imagining.
Johnny
June 30, 2020 at 6:51 pm
Bingo
Bob Frog
June 30, 2020 at 6:49 pm
Nope, you can keep your scam to yourselves, thank you.
Black Shibe
June 30, 2020 at 11:59 pm
you must be a good person
Wake Up
June 30, 2020 at 6:51 pm
TED makes pro ped0phile videos. I don’t watch TED anymore, it’s garbage.
Dylan
June 30, 2020 at 6:53 pm
Let’s artificially screw with markets. It alllllllways works.
Curtis Nikel
June 30, 2020 at 7:11 pm
Big Oil royalties is the only way to pay back the Covid Debts, does debt repayment does still matter? I suspect the lenders will tell us it does!
DeoMachina
June 30, 2020 at 7:40 pm
There is no green economy under capitalism.
Michael Quad
June 30, 2020 at 9:50 pm
mission impossible
Raffaele Filosofi
June 30, 2020 at 10:17 pm
I suggest abolishing the automobiles altogether, and walk, walk, walk…
Oda Punkt
June 30, 2020 at 10:52 pm
To anyone reading this, please be careful on social media… Careful what you listen to and let influence you… the content is not being filtered and controlled in a safe way.
Stenio.
June 30, 2020 at 10:58 pm
I like miniatures in nanotechnology! Happiness for all!
Kimberyote3
June 30, 2020 at 10:59 pm
We need the green economy like we need sharia. Ain’t gonna happen.
Sophe Abdulrahman
June 30, 2020 at 11:05 pm
Thanks ❤🌹🌹⭐TED ❤
iohannesfactotum
July 1, 2020 at 1:05 am
It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it.
Jim Walker
July 1, 2020 at 1:11 am
Industrial civilization creates heat as a by product of itself. No “Green” solution can solve this basic problem. No matter how you power industrial society, growth results is a warming of the planet.
my31and37
July 1, 2020 at 2:59 am
No..we need to get the economy moving NOW. People are losing their homes.
Lukalot
July 1, 2020 at 4:58 am
my31and37 People are going to start losing their lives _and_ homes if climate change isn’t reversed.
VGO VGER
July 1, 2020 at 4:09 am
Here we go with the green job nonsense…..in case people don’t know this, according to the Obama administration, the oil industry is considered a green job now.
Sajjad Khan
July 1, 2020 at 4:26 am
EarlFaulk
July 1, 2020 at 4:29 am
Translation Lets sabotage any recovery just on case Trump wins re election
Sarah Coleman
July 1, 2020 at 7:14 am
24:25 I wish the person who had the kid talking in the background would have muted their mic. I know it’s a meme, “ha ha, how embarrassing” but I couldn’t focus on what they guy was saying.
Aleziss
July 1, 2020 at 8:05 am
nothing will happend, all people want is to go back as it was before as fast as possible…
Joel McKinney
July 1, 2020 at 8:21 am
communistas
ITouchTheSky 8GladysWorld8
July 1, 2020 at 12:11 pm
Thank you so much of talking about how to conserve and protect our environment. Each of us can contribute to do it. Lovely watching and listening to 3 of you here on the top of the Italian mountain. It’s 2 o’clock in the afternoon here and its raining, so I stop for a while of working from my sustainable garden.
Robert Callaghan
July 1, 2020 at 12:56 pm
The Demasculation Sterilization Feminzation & Extinction of Men and Climate
*My Opus Maximus*
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July 1, 2020 at 1:26 pm
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anatoli p
July 1, 2020 at 4:18 pm
Yeah ”green” economy from anti nuke Malthusian Neo Marxists .
cycling of life
July 2, 2020 at 7:43 am
We need to STOP MINDLESS ECONOMY, NOT CHANGE “THE NAME” OF THE ECONOMY! There is no use in calling the economy “green” if we keep DOIMG THE SAME JUST UNDER ANOTHER NAME! There is no use of having “organic” food when it is still being SOLD! There is no use of calling “green energy” if it is still being SOLD FOR PROFIT SOMETHING IT IS GIVEN!!!
G B
July 2, 2020 at 4:25 pm
Thank you for this talk, very interesting!!