Mangroves, storm walls and other ways to protect coasts from climate change | Dave Sivaprasad

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🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Nearly 40 percent of humanity lives near a coast -- and no two coasts are the same. How can these communities build resilience to the increasing risks of climate change? Climate advisor Dave Sivaprasad outlines how to tackle this complex challenge through an approach that looks for the right mix of solutions to fit each local context, from restoring mangrove forests to building storm barriers and beyond.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
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0:13.9	Disappearing coastlines are a place of huge exposure to climate change and all the socio-economic
0:19.2	consequences that are bound to come from it.
0:22.5	Our government's ready.
0:24.3	In his 2022 talk from Ted at BCG, coastline resilience advocate Dave Sivaprasad outlines
0:30.5	ways to tackle this complex challenge.
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