![]() “We are currently on track today to produce 120 percent more fossil fuels in the next decade than the world should burn to stay below 1.5 degrees,” she says. As a decades-long advocate for the protection of Canada’s Great Northern Forest, Berman has spent years reaching out to CEOs of oil companies and studying climate policies and has come to a crucial conclusion: without a single mention of “fossil fuels” in the 2015 Paris Agreement, fossil fuel production has escaped regulation. ![]() “Our governments are only regulating emissions and not production of fossil fuels,” she says. How? As climate policy experts negotiate policies set to reduce carbon emissions, the fossil fuel industry continues to grow and pollute for the sake of oil, gas and coal, says environmental campaigner Tzeporah Berman. It’s time to wind down its rampant production with a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty for the future of our planet. Tzeporah Berman, environmental campaignerīig Idea: The fossil fuel industry has gone largely unregulated. She speaks at Session 2 of the TED Countdown Summit on Octoin Edinburgh, Scotland. Tzeporah Berman makes the case for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty to stop all new exploration of oil and gas. As he puts it, we should be “building new things that we’ve barely ever built before, in massive amounts, to create a new system entirely.” Although it’s a tall order, the benefits of such a transformation go far beyond survival: if we can reimagine our power production, we will also create a healthier, cleaner and more prosperous world for everyone. To get where we need to go, the world needs an entirely new electricity grid. Where can we get all this power?Īn answer: To go net-negative (not net-zero), to electrify everything with renewables in all parts of the world (not just the wealthy ones) and to power things that can’t be electrified (like airplanes), climate author Solomon Goldstein-Rose affirms that we need more than a green revolution in production. Although many estimates show that we need two and a half times more green production than we currently have, Solomon Goldstein-Rose says we need five times that: a grand total of 12 times today’s clean energy production. ![]() Speakers: Solomon Goldstein-Rose, Tzeporah Berman, Dan Jørgensen, Vandana Singh, Enric Sala, Thomas Crowther, Nicola Sturgeonīig idea: To really power our grid from clean energy, we must build more production capacity than we think we need - a lot more. The event: Countdown Summit: Session 2, hosted by Paris Climate Agreement architect Christiana Figueres and TED’s Bruno Giussani, with facilitation by Leaders’ Quest’s Jayma Pau and Carolina Moeller, at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland on Wednesday, October 13, 2021 But there’s very little information on what life could look like if we all did our job to repair the planet.Īt Session 2 of the Countdown Summit, seven speakers stretched our imaginations - envisioning what it will take to create a different, better future and exactly how far (or close) we are from realizing it. There’s a lot of information on what we’re doing wrong when it comes to climate, and what the world would look like if we keep up the damage. (Photo: Ryan Lash / TED)įollow Countdown on Twitter and Instagram Hosts Christiana Figueres and Bruno Giussani welcome the audience to Session 2 of the TED Countdown Summit on Octoin Edinburgh, Scotland.
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