# The actual cost of preventing climate breakdown

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED Countdown New York Session 2022
- Speaker: Yuval Noah Harari
- Year: 2022
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Earth and environment, Economics, Society and politics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/yuval_noah_harari_the_actual_cost_of_preventing_climate_breakdown)
- 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: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Nobody really knows how much it would cost to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Yet historian Yuval Noah Harari's analysis, based on the work of scientists and economists, indicates that humanity might avert catastrophe by investing the equivalent of just two percent of global GDP into climate solutions. He makes the case that preventing ecological cataclysm will not require the major global disruptions many fear and explains that we already have the resources we need -- it's just a matter of shifting our priorities.

## Lectures

1. [The actual cost of preventing climate breakdown](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/yuval_noah_harari_the_actual_cost_of_preventing_climate_breakdown/168021071a74), 11 min (TED's player)