How is your city tackling the climate crisis? | Marvin Rees

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🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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"If we can unlock the full potential of our cities, we can minimize the price the planet pays for hosting us in our growing numbers," says Marvin Rees, the Mayor of Bristol, UK, who understands deeply how cities can help (or hurt) the environment. Rees notes that while sustainable infrastructure already exists in many parts of the world -- like electric buses in Colombia and freshwater reserves in Singapore -- major investments could make similar innovations more far-reaching and successful. He highlights the pivotal role of city mayors in advocating for a "worldwide network of efficient decarbonized cities" that will bring the world closer to its climate goals.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:07.2	When we see international negotiations to reduce emissions, break down or come up short,
0:12.1	it's easy to feel like climate disaster, it can't be averted.
0:15.7	But Marvin Rees has a message of hope.
0:17.9	He's the mayor of Bristol, UK, and in his Ted 2022 talk, he makes a case for how cities
0:24.4	are one of the most promising paths to house and employ people more efficiently and sustainably.
0:29.9	Support for Ted Talks Daily comes from Airbnb.
0:37.3	When you're staying at an Airbnb, you might be like me, wondering, could my place be
0:41.8	an Airbnb and if it could, what could it earn?
0:45.6	I think about this all the time.
0:47.4	Sub, whose extra room in London was storing furniture until his mom had the idea to start
0:52.2	Airbnbing it, now that extra room helps pay the mortgage.
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1:05.8	I have one of the biggest honours that I think any politician could have, and I was elected
1:13.6	the mayor of the place in which I was born and brought up.
1:17.4	So that's Bristol in the UK.
1:19.8	Well, thank you.
1:23.4	And it's a big job from education to housing, to budgets, to trash collection, to protests,
1:31.3	to counter-protests, cities are complicated organisms.
1:35.8	They can be tumultuous and they can be full of contradiction.
1:40.4	And as the mayor, I am the accountable person with the in Bristol.
1:44.0	The buck stops with me.
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