The roadmap to ending pollution from transportation is here, says electrification advocate and UN Climate Champions’ Special Adviser, 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.
Plans being drawn up to incentivise low carbon shipping must be inclusive and equitable, warns Tuvalu government official Asela Peneueta.
Migrating to carbon-neutral aviation such as battery-electric and hydrogen flights could require up to 1,700TWh of clean energy by 2050. FInd out what else it will take.
The IEA’s new Global EV Outlook report concludes that, by the end of the decade, electric car sales are on track to cut annual emissions equivalent to Germany’s entire economy.
If the aviation industry were a country, it would be the 7th largest source of CO2 emissions in the world. This film, part of The Climate Pledge’s Future Forward series, illustrates how a collaboration between Neste and JetBlue is helping to decarbonize the aviation industry.
