How We're Going to Solve Climate Change - Farhana Yamin
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TEDxKingsCross
• November 2021
TEDxKingsCross 2021 was a countdown themed event looking at solutions to climate change. Farhana talks about why we all need to become JEDIs to prevent catastrophic climate change.
Farhana Yamin is an internationally recognised environmental lawyer, climate change and development policy expert. She has advised leaders and ministers on climate negotiations for 30 years, representing small islands and developing countries and attending nearly every major climate summit since 1991. In addition to founding Track 0, she is an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, a Senior Advisor to SYSTEMIQ, an FRSA and Visiting Professor, University of the Arts, London. She was voted Number 2 on the 2020 BBC’s Power List with the judges describing her a “powerhouse of climate justice” and is active in numerous community-based initiatives and social justice movements.