Is there a role for carbon credits in a just transition to net zero? | TED Countdown Dilemma Series

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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[@pijmleko6]

"you are the carbon they want to reduce"

[@ericdanielski4802]

No. RePlanet for the win.

[@GonyohoriMatake]

Especially the more carbonated (melanated) beings of the global south.

[@ericdanielski4802]

@@GonyohoriMatake Climate racism from the actual climate movement is a real problem.

[@WattisWatts]

Yep. If you are partial to the carbon based beings around you, proponents of transhumanism give you a name: a "Fleshist" .

[@VeracityMedia]

No.

[@warriorprincessharmony]

The bullshit of just talking, talking, talking, instead of doing anything about it. Personally I want to know if anyone of these speakers has tried reforesting deserts ... or semi-arid areas. I have questions about soil&water management per plant.

[@mhaipianist]

True, just sound bites

[@Bigobe244]

The reality is that this will end up extending Business As Usual activity. As humans we really don't have the capacity to consider losing some aspects of modern life which we consider 'essential', that are inherently high-carbon-e, and a path of least resistance such as 'offsetting' will become the primary option for entities whose core values directly conflict with sustainable development. I look forward to seeing many rich folks being created from the incoming carbon offsetting boom. Good luck all, its gonna be a cowboy future out there.

[@kathrynpalmer5868]

I am 55 years old with very little set aside for retirement at this point. I have always been curious about the stock market and have witnessed some people who played the game right and retired early because they used the stock market. When I ask them, most said that they invested very little to start with, but their portfolio grew. I do have a significant amount of capital that is required to start up but I have no idea what strategies and direction I need to approach to help me make decent returns.

[@jamesmcdonald635]

Buy index funds if you wanna be safe, though you are probably be better off just going to Vanguard or something for that

[@Anonymoose66G]

@@kathrynpalmer5868 Shouldve invested earlier but if you want a very safe investment with decent returns invest in the S&P500 or other index funds, they diversify your money across multiple stocks in companies usually the top 500 of the nation/international, the S&P500 are the top 500 American stocks, do your own research before doing anything of course but just some advice.

[@gabb05]

It would be great if the sources the speakers talk about could be listed as a "references" section on the videos for those of use that are interested in reading and learning the details of the facts (if indeed they are facts)

[@Victor_Andrei]

If carbon credits are tradeable, it meams they're aimed at poor people only.

[@THEHARMONIKZ]

Really bad idea.

[@WattisWatts]

"Now, how on earth can we take away people's privacy and any sense of autonomy without a common enemy we can unite on? Any ideas?"

[@wiezumteufel9024]

Best comment ever!

[@lsauce45]

Please help me understand this.

[@WattisWatts]

@@lsauce45 I should have wrote "any ideas on an enemy?".

[@pacificatoris9307]

Come on now! This type of talk was appropriate when VP flew into Kyoto a few decades ago. There is a reasonable blue print, and the actions should have been taken like yesterday.

[@akagainesy]

Here's an idea. Rather than putting all that money into carbon capture, you put it into renewable resources. I get we need to get the carbon out of the atmosphere, but it would be easier if you stop putting more in.

[@jerrymiller9039]

No

[@benevbright]

Um… didn’t the market teach that you should never expect volunteers?

[@lsauce45]

Do you guys read comments on your videos on youtube ? like this one. I want all speakers in this video to take 5 minutes to read and respond to comments. Why ? Just because I want. Na Na.. It will help unite you guys and these guys , maybe someone will consider doing something.

[@jamesdyke3262]

I read the comments :)

[@cryptotonic567]

Thinking about it, I agree with the idea that it would be almost useless and ineffective to drastically reduce the extraction and use of fossil coal and I believe that the idea of ​​providing for 2050 a system that guarantees removal from the atmosphere is the best solution! Also I believe that it will not be a process that will happen at any moment but with the right support and without problems, it can be achieved! congratulations for the great video as always!

[@The_Cats_Pajamas]

carbon capture is a flawed technology it will always cost more energy than the carbon you are able to pull out of the system. Until we have infinite clean electricity it cant happen.

[@antonioas709]

Heck no

[@NikiFrancesca]

Thank you TED for this 👏🏼👏🏼🫶🏼

[@soldierforrester2401]

Methan go brr

[@DavidSanchez-vx4bv]

How naive could be a person or group of person to beleive that similar mechanism, acttitud, values that created the problem of large CO2 emissions, could be used to create a solution of that problem? 🤦🏻‍♂️ Do you want to stop CC, for real? Then push for an economic system change/evolution/replacement

[@benevbright]

Btw, why Jeff Bezos is here to speak?😂

[@abderrahmanelkacimi]

great

[@Dekaida]

No it's not. Capture the carbon out of the air and make graphene out of it instead. It's a revolutionary technology that would help to solve this "carbon crisis." Then we should work toward switching over to nuclear energy instead of solar and wind. We recently got a fusion reaction successfully started. Pour more time, effort, and money into developing that nuclear technology if fission is to scary.

[@The_Cats_Pajamas]

carbon capture is inherently flawed and costs more energy than you are able to get out of the system. until there is infinite clean electricity carbon capture will always output more carbon than it removes.

[@Dekaida]

@@The_Cats_Pajamas Right, so nuclear to facilitate carbon capture. Also, you're being a bit salacious when writing we would need an infinite source of electricity. There isn't an infinite source of carbon, so that statement is incorrect.

[@drew75123]

@@Dekaida perhaps you should look up the definition of the word 'salacious'

[@Dekaida]

@@drew75123 Have you ever heard of making sense?

[@drew75123]

from sam harris ya 🤗@@Dekaida

[@vesawuoristo4162]

No enough with the credits already, we are way past the time to think about , action is needed asap by converting all energy to renewables.

[@harshbutt]

Keep dreaming, they're too inefficient. If the goal is "net zero" nuclear and carbon capture are far superior options.

[@WattisWatts]

Does that include humans?

[@gerontodon]

And you've got the engineering expertise to know this is possible without incurring mass starvation and chronic fuel poverty?

[@WattisWatts]

@@gerontodon Maybe the starvation and fuel poverty is part of their solution?

[@gerontodon]

@@WattisWatts Depending on exactly what level of 'they' you're talking about, and what you think they see the problem as (hint: it's not the climate), that's not so much a 'maybe' as a statement of the obvious as far as I'm concerned.

[@Assxssin1x]

*Congrats to everyone who is early and found this comment* 🎉