The climate solutions worth funding — now | Jonathan Foley

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🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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When it comes to climate solutions, "now is better than new, and time is more important than tech," says scientist Jonathan Foley. He presents a six-part framework to more efficiently address climate change, from better aligning capital with carbon to utilizing affordable solutions that are ready to go now. Learn more about what the data says to do — and how the solutions might be cheaper than we think.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
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0:10.0	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:13.2	Which climate solutions are the most effective and which ones are ready to go?
0:17.7	In his 2023 talk from the TED Countdown Summit, scientist Jonathan Foley tells us how data science can help us understand and deploy
0:26.4	the best and cheapest possible climate solutions right now. It's coming up
0:31.5	after a short break.
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0:45.0	So I'm a climate scientist and I've devoted my entire life to this topic.
0:50.0	Why on Earth would anybody want to do that?
0:53.0	Well, it's because science can help us.
0:56.0	It was, after all, science that first told us that this planet was warming
1:00.0	and we were the cause of that.
1:02.0	But science can also help us find solutions to the crisis.
1:06.0	And we need this more than ever,
1:08.0	because right now everybody seems to be telling us
1:12.0	about their favorite climate solutions.
1:14.0	There's so much noise, so much confusion, all these ideas out there.
1:18.0	How do we sort it out?
1:20.0	How do we figure out what works and what doesn't and where we should focus?
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