# The controversial climate tool funding real change

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED Countdown Summit 2025
- Speaker: Sandeep Roy Choudhury
- Year: 2025
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Earth and environment, Economics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/sandeep_roy_choudhury_the_controversial_climate_tool_funding_real_change)
- 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)

If a company plants trees to offset its pollution, is that climate progress — or is it greenwashing? Critics of carbon markets say it’s the latter. But Sandeep Roy Choudhury, who’s spent two decades financing climate projects from rural cookstoves to coastal forests, says the real failure is discouraging companies from even trying. Hear his case for why we shouldn’t let perfection block meaningful action on climate change.

## Lectures

1. [The controversial climate tool funding real change](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/sandeep_roy_choudhury_the_controversial_climate_tool_funding_real_change/1caf8480455c), 9 min (TED's player)