Xavier Cortada

Eco-artist

TED Speaker

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Xavier Cortada is an artist working across disciplines to engage communities.

Why you should listen

Xavier Cortada is a Cuban-American artist whose work intends to generate awareness and action around climate change, sea level rise and biodiversity loss. Based in Miami, he has created art at the North and South poles and across six continents, including more than 150 public artworks, installations, collaborative murals and socially engaged projects.

Xavier Cortada’s TED talk

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Xavier Cortada

A creative approach to community climate action

Posted Dec 2022

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Countdown

Climate challenges and solutions: The talks from the TED Countdown London Session 2022

October 4, 2022

Countdown, TED’s climate action initiative founded in partnership with Leaders’ Quest, launched three years ago with a focus on accelerating solutions to climate change. The goal: to build a better future by cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 in the race to a zero-carbon world — a world that’s safer, cleaner and fairer […]