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While not necessarily the flashiest topic, the way that we finance the continued transition to sustainable technologies is crucial if we want to fight climate change.

But for finance innovator, Radhima Yadav, global climate is at a standstill because according to her, investors are prioritizing perfection over progress.

In this talk, she shares why limiting investments to a narrowly defined group of projects hurts more than it helps, ways to close the current funding gap, and why engaging pragmatically with high-emitting sectors instead of freezing them out might be a key step in financing climate action.

That was Radhima Yadav at the TED Countdown Summit in Nairobi, Kenya in 2025.

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