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The billion-dollar pollution solution humanity needs right now

1,101,850 views | Stacy Kauk • TED Countdown London Session 2022

Could the same mechanism used to accelerate vaccine development work for spurring solutions to the climate crisis? Sustainability innovator Stacy Kauk introduces the billion-dollar fund to supercharge the carbon removal market, which would help build a new industry aimed at drawing down carbon pollution from the air and storing it safely.

Could the same mechanism used to accelerate vaccine development work for spurring solutions to the climate crisis? Sustainability innovator Stacy Kauk introduces the billion-dollar fund to supercharge the carbon removal market, which would help build a new industry aimed at drawing down carbon pollution from the air and storing it safely.

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Check out Frontier, an advance market commitment to buy an initial 925 million dollars of permanent carbon removal. Buyers and suppliers, get in touch.

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Stacy Kauk

Innovation accelerator

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Stacy Kauk is working to generate global demand for carbon removal, enabling new companies to prove their impact and scale and spend millions per year to drive down future prices.

Shopify, 2022 | Article

"Buying Carbon Removal, Explained"

Shopify, 2022 | Article

"How to Kick-Start the Carbon Removal Market: Shopify's Playbook"

cdrprimer.org, 2021 | Article

"Carbon Dioxide Removal Primer"

Kim Stanley Robinson | Orbit, 2020 | Book

The Ministry for the Future

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This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Check out Frontier, an advance market commitment to buy an initial 925 million dollars of permanent carbon removal. Buyers and suppliers, get in touch.