# A cheat sheet for accelerating clean energy

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED Countdown Summit 2025
- Speaker: Kimiko Hirata
- Year: 2025
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Earth and environment
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/kimiko_hirata_a_cheat_sheet_for_accelerating_clean_energy)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

After the Fukushima disaster shut down Japan's nuclear reactors, the coal industry rushed in to fill the energy gap. As climate advocate Kimiko Hirata watched dozens of new coal plant proposals quietly surface across the country — each one locking in decades of future emissions — she resolved to make them impossible to ignore. She shares how a small, scrappy civil society movement took on a fossil-fuel-dependent economy and got people to say "yes" to a renewable future.

## Lectures

1. [A cheat sheet for accelerating clean energy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/kimiko_hirata_a_cheat_sheet_for_accelerating_clean_energy/b53df6d33039), 10 min (TED's player)