A special announcement from TED on climate

The TED Interview

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Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Today, we're re-sharing a conversation with Christiana Figueres, because we've got a special update for you from TED. On Saturday, October 10, we'll launch Countdown: an exciting new global initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis, turning ideas into action. To get involved, tune in to the global launch which will be live-streamed at youtube.com/ted on October 10 at 11am ET.

In 2015, Christiana Figueres brokered the historic Paris Agreement to combat climate change. She gives an inside look at the negotiations that led to a commitment from 195 countries to work toward a low carbon future and discusses her current work on COUNTDOWN, an ambitious new initiative from TED aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.0	When people hear about us, they think like, oh, we're a fairy tale.
0:09.8	Like, oh, it's a gypsy.
0:11.0	As a 12-year-old Romani American, Paulina Stevens was pulled from school to prepare for marriage
0:17.0	and a career as a fortune teller.
0:18.8	We're real people with a real culture and language.
0:23.1	This was Paulina's world until she decided to break with tradition and leave everything
0:28.4	behind.
0:29.4	I'm Faith Pinoe.
0:31.4	From the Los Angeles Times, this is foretold.
0:34.3	New episodes every Tuesday.
0:36.3	Follow wherever you get your podcasts.
0:38.8	Hello, I'm Chris Addison.
0:44.3	Welcome to the Ted interview.
0:46.9	Today I'm resharing with you a conversation with Cristiana Figueras from last December.
0:53.6	It was, it connects directly to an amazing event that's happening this coming Saturday,
0:59.5	10, 10, 2020.
1:02.1	I really want everyone listening to this to be part of that event if you possibly
1:06.1	can.
1:07.1	So Cristiana has probably done more than anyone in the world to bring people together
1:11.3	over the climate issue.
1:13.7	In her role of the United Nations, she was credited as the key architect of the Paris
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