Theme: Countdown, Zero Carbon World

TEDx Countdown is a half-day virtual event being organized by a team of TEDxKanke, with an audience from across the globe watching our live feed and recordings later. Our goal is to bring together bright minds to give talks that are idea-focused, and on a wide range of subjects, to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis, turning ideas into action. The goal: To build a better future by cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 in the race to a zero-carbon world – a world that is safer, cleaner, and fairer for everyone.

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Jessica Seddon

Environmental Activist

Jessica Seddon is Global Lead, Air Quality, WRI Ross Center For Sustainable Cities She leads a team of scientists, strategists, and practitioners who are focused on helping cities and countries manage their air to achieve health, ecosystem, and climate goals. She has been an advisor, motivator, and guide to institutes and organizations both in India and abroad, IIT Madras, IDFC Mumbai, University of California are just to name a few. Dr. Seddon earned her Ph.D. in Political Economy from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and her B.A. in Government and Latin American Studies from Harvard University.

Kanchi Kohli

Environmental Activist

Kanchi Kohli is a researcher working on environment, forest and biodiversity governance in India. Her work explores the links between law, industrialization and environment justice. Kanchi is presently a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. She has individually and in teams authored various publications, including the book Business Interests and the Environmental Crisis (SAGE-India). Her writings also include several research papers and popular articles. Kanchi regularly teaches at universities and law schools in India on subjects related to biodiversity, environment and community development.

Licypriya Kangujam

Environmental Activist

Licypriya is a Nine-Years-Old Indian Climate Activists. She has been championing her cause since six-years-old to protect, preserve, and nurture our environment by fighting climate change. She is one of the youngest climate activists globally and addressed the world leaders in the United Nations Climate Conference 2019 (COP25) in Madrid, Spain calling the world leaders to take immediate climate actions to save their future. She is an outspoken young leader inspiring millions of people around the world and one of the leading voices for climate change in the World. She is the World Children Peace Prize Laureate 2019, Rising Star of Earth Day 2019, and the recipients of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Children Award 2019, Global Child Prodigy Award 2020, Noble Citizen Award 2020, and also amongst the “Top 100 Child Prodigies of the World 2020”. She was even praised by United Nations Secretary-General Mr. Antonio Guterres in 2019.

Ovais Sarmad

Sustainable Development at UN Climate Change

Mr. Ovais Sarmad joined the United Nations Climate Change secretariat (UNFCCC) on 1 September 2017. Mr. Sarmad supports the Executive Secretary in managing the UNFCCC secretariat and its staff, advising on a range of issues relating to the strategic operations planning and development of the organization. Previously he served as Chief of Staff to the Director-General at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva. Mr. Sarmad worked in several management and policy capacities in IOM over a period of 27 years. Prior to the IOM, he worked in the private and public sectors in London, where he qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA) and Chartered Global Management Accountant (GCMA). Mr. Sarmad graduated from Osmania University in Hyderabad, India, as a Bachelor of Commerce.

Peepal Baba

Environmental Activist

Peepal Baba or Swami Prem Parivartan is an environmentalist who along with his team has planted over 20 million trees in 202 districts across 18 states in India. He was born to a doctor of the Indian Army on 26 January 1966 in Chandigarh, India. His English teacher inspired him at the age of 11 to plant trees in 1977. He is the founder of Give Me Trees Trust which was later registered as a non-governmental organization in 2011.

Ridhima Pandey

Environmental Activist

Ridhima Pandey is a 13-year-old environmental activist from Haridwar, Uttrakhand, India. The daring of this young lady is seen when in 2017 she filed a petition against the Indian Government in the National Green Tribunal asserting that the Indian Government has failed for not fulfilling the duties towards Climate Change. She did not rest here but she went ahead and filed a petition in the supreme court of India as well. She has been the voice at many national and international conferences, movements and even a global strike In New york talking about climate change.

Sir Richie Richardson

Former Captain West Indies Cricket Team

Sir Richard Benjamin Richardson, KCN (born 12 January 1962) is a former West Indies international cricketer and a former captain of the West Indian cricket team. He was a flamboyant batsman and a superb player of fast bowling. He was famous for his wide-brimmed maroon hat which he wore in preference to a helmet against even the fastest bowlers. Richardson captained the West Indies in 24 Tests between 1991 when he took over from Viv Richards and 1995, winning 11, losing 6, and the rest ending in draws