An interactive map to track (and end) pollution in China | Ma Jun

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🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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China has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2060 -- and its citizens are helping industries across the country reach that goal. Environmentalist Ma Jun introduces the Blue Map, an app that empowers people to report pollution violations in their communities and track real-time environmental data. The map holds emitters accountable and helps companies along the global supply chain make informed sourcing and procurement decisions. Hear how the app uses the power of transparency to motivate more than 14,000 factories (so far) to clean up.

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0:00.0	It's TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hume.
0:06.3	With its population of 1.4 billion people, China leads the world in current greenhouse gas emissions.
0:13.0	It's also pledged to be carbon neutral by the year 2016.
0:17.5	How will it get there?
0:18.8	With people like Chinese environmentalist Ma Jun.
0:22.2	In his talk recorded for Ted Monterey in 2021, Ma shows us a strategic and inspiring way
0:29.1	he's motivated major Chinese industries to report and reduce their emissions.
0:37.4	Choking smog, polluted waters, climate change.
0:41.3	This has been the environmental cost of the tremendous growth in China over the past 40 years.
0:47.3	At the same time, hundreds of millions of people had put themselves out of poverty.
0:52.3	As an environmentalist in China, I have witnessed all of this firsthand.
0:58.0	The challenge we're facing is, can we clean up as fast and as broadly, as the massive
1:03.6	development degrading our air, water, and climate?
1:07.9	China has 1.4 billion people, a still fast-growing economy, and is responsible for the
1:14.6	biggest share of the current greenhouse gas emission. China knows its global responsibility
1:20.6	and has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2060. It means more than 10 billion metric tons of carbon emission
1:29.4	must be stopped or be neutralized.
1:32.8	How can we possibly do it?
1:35.7	The pressing global climate situation requires each of us
1:39.7	not just to do it, but to do it faster.
1:43.4	I believe there's a chance for us to succeed,
1:46.0	as I know a tool that I've seen work to help reduce the enormous environmental pollution.
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