18/05/2021

Climate Change Videos: Indigenous, Health And Poverty, Human Rights, Glaciers, Rising Sea Levels, Refugees, Vulnerable Cities

Indigenous knowledge meets science to take on climate change
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim · Environmental activist
TEDWomen December 2019
Duration 12:52


To tackle a problem as large as climate change, we need both science and Indigenous wisdom, says environmental activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim. In this engaging talk, she shares how her nomadic community in Chad is working closely with scientists to restore endangered ecosystems -- and offers lessons on how to create more resilient communities.


The link between climate change, health and poverty
Dr Cheryl Holder - Physician
TEDMED March 2020
Duration 12:12


For the poor and vulnerable, the health impacts of climate change are already here, says physician Cheryl Holder. Unseasonably hot temperatures, disease-carrying mosquitoes and climate gentrification threaten those with existing health conditions, while wealthier people move to higher ground. In an impassioned talk, Holder proposes impactful ways clinicians can protect their patients from climate-related health challenges -- and calls on doctors, politicians and others to build a care system that incorporates economic and social justice.


Why climate change is a threat to human rights
Mary Robinson · Global leader
TEDWomen May 2015
Duration 21:33


Climate change is unfair. While rich countries can fight against rising oceans and dying farm fields, poor people around the world are already having their lives upended -- and their human rights threatened -- by killer storms, starvation and the loss of their own lands. Mary Robinson, who served as president of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002, asks us to join the movement for worldwide climate justice.


An urgent call to protect the world's "Third Pole"
Tshering Tobgay · Politician, environmentalist
TEDSummit July 2019
Duration 14:10


The Hindu Kush Himalaya region is the world's third-largest repository of ice, after the North and South Poles -- and if current melting rates continue, two-thirds of its glaciers could be gone by the end of this century. What will happen if we let them melt away? Environmentalist, president of the People's Democratic Party in Bhutan, and the nation's former Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay shares the latest from the "water towers of Asia". He makes an urgent call to create an intergovernmental agency to protect the glaciers -- and save the nearly two billion people downstream from catastrophic flooding that would destroy land and livelihoods.


My country will be underwater soon — unless we work together
Anote Tong · President of the Republic of Kiribati
TEDMission Blue II October 2015
Duration 21:15


For the people of Kiribati, climate change isn't something to be debated, denied or legislated against -- it's an everyday reality. The low-lying Pacific island nation may soon be underwater, thanks to rising sea levels. In a personal conversation with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Kiribati President Anote Tong discusses his country's present climate catastrophe and its imperiled future. "In order to deal with climate change, there's got to be sacrifice. There's got to be commitment," he says. "We've got to tell people that the world has changed."
Colette Pichon Battle · Climate justice and human rights lawyer
TEDWomen December 2019
Duration 12:38


Scientists predict climate change will displace more than 180 million people by 2100 -- a crisis of "climate migration" the world isn't ready for, says disaster recovery lawyer and Louisiana native Colette Pichon Battle. In this passionate, lyrical talk, she urges us to radically restructure the economic and social systems that are driving climate migration -- and caused it in the first place -- and shares how we can cultivate collective resilience, better prepare before disaster strikes and advance human rights for all.


Roughly 1.5 billion people live in places facing the world’s biggest environmental challenges, and climate change will only exacerbate those problems.

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