The billion-dollar campaign to electrify transport | Monica Araya

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🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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The roadmap to ending pollution from transportation is here, says electrification advocate Monica Araya. In conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, Araya introduces Drive Electric: a global campaign to retire the polluting internal combustion engine in time to avoid climate disaster. And she shares some exciting news: a breakthrough funding commitment from the Audacious Project that puts the project well on its way to realizing a billion-dollar plan to supercharge the transition to electric vehicles over the next five years. Learn more about the coalition of 70 organizations powering this global action -- and the role all cities, politicians and citizens can play to secure a zero-emission transport future. (This ambitious plan is a part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)

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0:00.0	It's TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hume. Because climate change is a problem at such a global scale,
0:10.4	solutions have to match that systemic scale of the problem. Electrification advocate Monica
0:16.8	O'Reya has worked out an ambitious global vision to confront climate change with mass
0:22.9	electrification. It's a big play to persuade the world to abandon oil and gas powered vehicles.
0:29.5	She describes how to get there and some exciting news in their efforts in a conversation
0:34.0	with head of Ted Chris Anderson from the Countdown Summit stage in 2021.
0:40.8	A year ago at Global Countdown's virtual launch, Monica Araya, who among many other things,
0:49.0	is a distinguished fellow at the Climate Works Foundation. She shared news of a campaign
0:54.6	to take on the massive emissions
0:57.7	from the world's cars, trucks and buses, etc.
1:01.7	We have an exciting update
1:06.0	that we want to share with you.
1:07.4	Monica, welcome here to the countdown stage.
1:09.7	Thank you. It's so great to be here. It's so great to see you in person.
1:15.7	So look, you're up against a vast industry. I mean, there are more than a billion
1:19.7	polluting vehicles out there. How on earth can you attempt system change at that scale?
1:27.4	Well, that is the point that because of the scale
1:30.0	and because of the speed that we need to inject into this transformation,
1:35.3	we have to work with all the levers of change simultaneously.
1:40.7	That's the key point.
1:42.7	So cities, we have to engage with cities.
1:46.3	That's great, not enough.
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