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Are ad agencies, PR firms and lobbyists destroying the climate?

Solitaire Townsend · TED

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About

An unnoticed industry worth two trillion dollars a year is influencing almost every carbon emission. Sustainability solution seeker Solitaire Townsend calls this sector the "X industry" (where "X" stands for influence), and it includes professional services like advertising and PR firms, management consultancies, corporate law firms, lobbyists and more. In this eye-opening talk, she exposes the industry's massive but largely invisible influence on the environment -- and proposes ways they can use their creativity, inventiveness and knowledge to fix climate change instead of contributing to it.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
Countdown Summit
Speaker
Solitaire Townsend
Year
2021
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Earth and environment, Business and management
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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