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How to get everyone to care about a green economy

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Angela Francis |

TEDxLondonWomen

• December 2019

How do you get the environment to the top of everyone's priority list? You can't, says climate advocate Angela Francis -- but you can get them to care about improving their lives. In this pragmatic talk, she shares her playbook for helping even the most skeptical among us see the benefits of a greener economy on their health, wealth and well-being.

How do you get the environment to the top of everyone's priority list? You can't, says climate advocate Angela Francis -- but you can get them to care about improving their lives. In this pragmatic talk, she shares her playbook for helping even the most skeptical among us see the benefits of a greener economy on their health, wealth and well-being.

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Find out more about how we green the economy in a way that also addresses inequality and injustice from the IPPR Environmental Justice Commission.

Find out more about how we green the economy in a way that also addresses inequality and injustice from the Scottish Government Just Transition Commission.

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Angela Francis

Champion for the green economy

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Angela Francis finds ways to work on changing our human systems -- energy, production, consumption, transport and planning -- to bring them in line with our environment.

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This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxLondonWomen, an independent event. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

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Find out more about how we green the economy in a way that also addresses inequality and injustice from the IPPR Environmental Justice Commission.

Find out more about how we green the economy in a way that also addresses inequality and injustice from the Scottish Government Just Transition Commission.