TED and YouTube announced today at an event in New York City a new climate change avoidance initiative called “Countdown” along with a coalition of global leaders and nonprofit environmental organizations. TED and YouTube plan to gather new ideas to combat the climate crisis, focusing on five broad themes Renewable energy, infrastructure, transport, food and ecosystem restoration.

Anyone anywhere can suggest an idea, YouTube creators will help disseminate these ideas, and the best suggestions can be put into practice with the help of companies, policy makers and celebrities who support the initiative.

The initiative is expected to culminate in a summit in Bergen, Norway, in October to share the solutions reached. Expert speakers in the fields of education, business, science and technology.

The talks at the summit in Norway will be portrayed by a select audience able to turn those ideas into action. The initiative aims to catalyze action to halve global greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and zero by 2050, a path that the UN International Panel of Scientists said. : It is necessary to avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change.

YouTube’s participation is remarkable. A study found that the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that YouTube publishes in about a year is the same as the Scottish city of Glasgow, about 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. For example, the company announced in 2017 that people watch over a billion hours of YouTube every day.

Employees at Google, parent of YouTube, last month asked the search giant to do more for its contribution to climate change, calling on the company to cut all its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and cut ties with fossil fuel companies.

Google has become carbon neutral since 2007, meaning it is taking measures to offset or eliminate its greenhouse gas emissions, and in 2018 exceeded its goal of buying more renewable energy than using it as a company.

Video streaming continues to grow, and video streaming and downloading on the Internet are expected to account for 82 percent of total consumer Internet traffic by 2022, according to a Cisco white paper. Compared to 2015 figures.

Source : Countdown