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TED Countdown, a global initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis, is delighted to welcome new members to its Vision Council.

The 2023 TED Countdown Summit hosted the inaugural gathering of the TED Future Forum, an initiative focused on the role of business in accelerating solutions to the climate crisis and transforming the global economy.

TED Countdown Summit 2023 concluded with a wide-ranging session featuring eight inspiring takes from around the world on how to ensure a fast, fair transition to a clean energy future.

From innovative technologies upgrading our buildings to age-old Aboriginal wisdom on fire management and more, the five speakers of Session 6 of TED Countdown Summit 2023 offered transformative insights on how we can redefine our relationships to both our stuff and the world, with a focus on sustainability and resilience.

To rise to the challenge of climate change, we need big, bold, gigaton-scale solutions. Session 4 of TED Countdown Summit 2023 focused on the clean technologies that need to scale fast -- and made space for ideas on radical climate leadership, the use of art for environmental activism and the push for climate-friendly alternatives to the world's most-consumed foods.

Session 3 of TED Countdown Summit 2023 tackled some of the knottier issues related to climate change -- from the massive amount of money needed to finance the global green transition, to the struggle for energy access in developing nations and the ecosystem effects of fast fashion -- and offered glimpses of the world-changing solutions already underway to lead us into a clean, prosperous future for all.

TED Countdown Summit 2023 kicked off in Detroit, Michigan, with a wide-ranging, solution-filled session of TED Talks and performances meant to inspire action on the world's toughest challenge: climate change.

Behind nearly every big culprit of the climate crisis, there's an army of advertising agencies, public relations services, law firms, and consultants doing their bidding.

Polar bears are cute but they don't inspire action. Efforts introduced at the TED Countdown conference seek to improve how we depict the issue.

Moderating that heated exchange at TED was a tall job, even for someone who got 195 nations to agree on climate goals, in 2015.