Palm oil is in nearly every commodity you use — food, shampoo, makeup and more — but harvesting this essential material has contributed to the destruction of millions of hectares of forests globally. Sustainability leader Andika Putraditama shares how a groundbreaking collaboration between conservationists and global brands is turning this crisis on its head, unlocking a new model for forest preservation. Discover a vision for preserving the forests still standing and restoring the ones we’ve lost.For a chance to give your own TED Talk, fill out the Idea Search Application: ted.com/ideasearch.Interested in learning more about upcoming TED events? Follow these links:TEDNext: ted.com/futureyouTEDSports: ted.com/sportsTEDAI Vienna: ted.com/ai-viennaTEDAI San Francisco: ted.com/ai-sf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas and conversations to spark your curiosity every day. I'm your host, Elise Hu. You may have heard the phrase, the forests are the Earth's lungs. And yet, more than a third of the world's forests have been cleared in just the last 300 years. A landmass approximately 1.5 times the size of the United States.
The commodities that have been created from this deforestation, wood, palm oil, to name a couple, are so ubiquitous in our world today that taking them out of production is nearly impossible. But for sustainability expert Andika Putradatama, there's no way to mitigate climate change without stopping the loss of the world's forests.
In his 2024 talk, he shares his vision for preserving the forest we still have, restoring the ones we've lost, and what has to be done in order for us to not miss the forest for the trees.
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In places like Indonesia, the biggest source of carbon emissions are actually coming from the loss of our forests and the burning of the peatland. That is this really carbon-rich ecosystem that is made up of dead organic matters, accumulated over thousands of years.
Globally, the agriculture, the forest and the land use sectors actually contribute to around a fifth of the global emission, which is significant, right? So there's no viable pathway for us to really mitigate climate change without really stopping the loss of our forests and without actually starting protecting this massive natural carbon sink that is our peatland, our mangroves.
But what's causing the loss of this critical ecosystem? Well, it's actually the productions of commodities that we use every day. Things like timber or palm oil that is so ubiquitous that there's a good chance when you walk to your local supermarket stores, almost all products in the shelves have something to do with palm oil, one way or another. But it also tells you that
This product, this commodity is so prevalent, it's so embedded in our daily life, in our daily economy, that completely taking out the production and the consumption of it might not be realistic at all. And so companies have recognized the dilemma, and they've introduced policies such as the no deforestation policy.
And what it does is that it dictates them to really make sure that the palm oil that they're buying is not contributing to forest loss. which is a good start. But that's only one side of the coin.
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