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Is there a role for carbon credits in the transition to a fair, net-zero future? | TED Countdown

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🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In June 2022, TED's climate initiative, Countdown, launched its Dilemma Series: events designed to look at some of the "knots" in the climate change space, where diverging positions have stalled progress and solidified into an inability to collaborate across differences. The event focused on the question: Is there a role for carbon credits in the transition to a fair, net-zero future? Through TED Talks and conversations featuring scientists, CEOs, activists, politicians, artists, frontline community leaders, investors and more, this film offers a 360-degree view of carbon credits -- a contentious subject that prompted some discomfort, disagreement and, ultimately, a renewed sense of possibility. It's an invitation to listen deeply, keep an open mind and get a little wiser on a complex topic. (Featuring, in order of appearance: Tamara Toles O'Laughlin, John Kilani, Nat Keohane, Julio Friedmann, Donnel Baird, Nili Gilbert, Al Gore, Inés Yábar, James Dyke, Tom Rivett-Carnac, Lindsay Levin, David Biello, Gilles Dufrasne, Kavita Prakash-Mani, Susan Chomba, Gabrielle Walker, Derik Broekhoff, Annette Nazareth)

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0:00.0

You're listening to Ted Dox daily, I'm Elise Hugh.

0:06.8

Question.

0:07.8

Is there a role for carbon credits in getting to a future of net zero emissions?

0:12.3

That's the question posed to a number of climate leaders and people on the front lines

0:15.8

of sustainability at a June 2022 session of Ted Countdown, when Ted brought them together

0:21.7

to hash it out.

0:23.4

On today's episode, we're sharing an excerpt from that dilemma session.

0:27.1

To premise, the answer to thorny questions doesn't come down to a simple choice, but rather

0:31.7

solutions that acknowledge many truths at the same time.

0:35.6

Listen to the end to hear Nobel laureate Al Gore's take on the importance of bringing different

0:39.9

perspectives into the same room.

0:42.4

And we invite you to get involved with Countdown, Ted's global initiative to accelerate solutions

0:47.1

to the climate crisis at countdown.ted.com.

0:56.9

Welcome to rethinking my podcast on the science of what makes us tick.

1:01.8

I'm an organizational psychologist and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating

1:06.2

people to explore how they think and what we should all rethink.

1:12.0

Today's episode is on expanding your universe with Nobel Prize winning physicist Saul Pro

1:16.6

Mutter.

1:17.6

And that seems like there's a really great project because you can find out if the world

1:20.7

was coming to the end in some billions of years of course.

1:24.2

If you could make that measurement, you could also tell whether the universe was infinite

1:28.2

or not in space.

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