The big idea funding forest conservation | Andika Putraditama
TED Talks Daily
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🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Palm oil is in nearly every commodity you use — food, shampoo, makeup and more — but harvesting this essential material has contributed to the destruction of millions of hectares of forests globally. Sustainability leader Andika Putraditama shares how a groundbreaking collaboration between conservationists and global brands is turning this crisis on its head, unlocking a new model for forest preservation. Discover a vision for preserving the forests still standing and restoring the ones we’ve lost.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas and conversations to spark your curiosity every day. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm your host, Elise Hugh. You may have heard the phrase, the forests are the earth's lungs. |
| 0:20.0 | And yet, more than a third of the world's forests |
| 0:22.5 | have been cleared in just the last 300 years, |
| 0:25.7 | a landmass approximately 1.5 times the size of the United States. |
| 0:31.8 | The commodities that have been created from this deforestation, |
| 0:35.0 | wood, palm oil, to name a couple, |
| 0:39.7 | are so ubiquitous in our world today that taking them out of production is nearly impossible. But for sustainability expert, Andika |
| 0:45.5 | Putra Tatama, there's no way to mitigate climate change without stopping the loss of the world's |
| 0:51.5 | forests. In his 2024 talk, he shares his vision for preserving the |
| 0:55.9 | forest we still have, restoring the ones we've lost, and what has to be done in order for us |
| 1:01.3 | to not miss the forest for the trees. |
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