An updated action plan for solving the climate crisis — and a look at progress to date | Ryan Panchadsaram, Anjali Grover and David Biello

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🗓️ 4 May 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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When it comes to climate, what are we doing right and where should we focus our efforts next? Systems innovator Ryan Panchadsaram and strategist Anjali Grover talk with TED science curator David Biello about the latest on the world's progress toward solving the climate crisis — and why there's more reason for optimism than you might think. Using strategic goal-setting tools that have transformed countless organizations, Panchadsaram and Grover explore the urgent actions needed to steer the planet toward a sustainable future and the pivotal roles of innovation, investment and policy. "The climate story isn't yet written," Grover says.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
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0:10.0	where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
0:15.0	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:17.0	What if a goal setting tool used by businesses around the world could be applied to the climate crisis.
0:23.0	That's what systems innovator Ryan Ponshatsuram and
0:26.8	strategist Anjali Grover have been working on
0:30.2	since setting their goals a few years ago.
0:33.0	They sit down with Ted's science curator David B.llo to check in on where things are at,
0:38.0	lessons from this climate effort and what it'll take to get to their loftiest targets coming up after a short break.
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0:54.8	of this week's episode.
0:57.3	And now our TED Talk of the Day.
1:00.3	What we've seen over the last few years
1:01.9	is unprecedented levels of investment and innovation but in order for us to solve the problem in time
1:07.1	We need to put pressure on our leaders to take action now
1:10.4	You guys have a plan to solve climate change? Tell me about that. We do. Back in
1:14.5	2020 we set out to apply OKR's to the climate crisis and OKR's are objectives and
1:20.0	key results. It's a goal-setting tool used by thousands of organizations to reach for their
1:24.7	most audacious goals. And so in 2021, we published a book and an action plan. And that action plan
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