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Xiye Bastida started organizing Fridays For Future climate strikes during her student days, culminating in the 2019 youth-led march in New York City, which drew more than 300,000 participants. Honoring her roots in the Otomi-Toltec Indigenous community in central Mexico, she champions Indigenous knowledge as a climate solution and continues to rally young people from the Global South to join the movement. In 2020, she cofounded the Re-Earth Initiative, which focuses on providing resources and knowledge to frontline communities. She is an ambassador to the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions.

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Live from TED2025

An epic day 5 of TED2025

April 11, 2025

As the curtain falls on TED2025: Humanity Reimagined, a week spent at the intersection of innovation and introspection comes into focus. This year’s conference wove together themes reflecting our complex, rapidly evolving world — from the awe-inspiring potential and sobering risks of artificial intelligence to nature-inspired solutions for the world’s most challenging problems. More than […]

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One planet: Notes from Session 7 of Countdown Summit

October 15, 2021

Follow Countdown on Twitter and Instagram • Subscribe to the Countdown newsletter After a week of hearing from the cutting-edge of climate action, we’ve filled our minds and hearts with ideas and solutions for a net-zero future. We gather for this final session of Countdown energized, curious and hopeful, knowing that we all share this […]

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Transformation: Notes from Session 3 of the Countdown Global Launch

October 10, 2020

Countdown is a global initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis. Watch the talks, interviews and performances from the Countdown Global Launch at ted.com/countdown. Transforming big systems is a huge task. Energy, transportation, industry and infrastructure all pose their own challenges. And yet that transformation is already happening. The experts in Session 3 showed […]

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