Xiye Bastida

Climate justice activist
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Why you should listen

Xiye Bastida started organizing Fridays For Future climate strikes during her student days, culminating in the 2019 youth-led march in New York City, which drew more than 300,000 participants. Honoring her roots in the Otomi-Toltec Indigenous community in central Mexico, she champions Indigenous knowledge as a climate solution and continues to rally young people from the Global South to join the movement. In 2020, she cofounded the Re-Earth Initiative, which focuses on providing resources and knowledge to frontline communities. She is an ambassador to the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions.

Xiye Bastida’s TED talks

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Xiye Bastida

If you adults won't save the world, we will

Posted Sep 2020
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Countdown

What is COP26?

Posted Oct 2021
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Xiye Bastida, Shiv Soin and Latif Nasser

Dear world leaders, these are our climate demands

Posted Nov 2021

More news and ideas from Xiye Bastida

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One planet: Notes from Session 7 of Countdown Summit

October 15, 2021

Follow Countdown on Twitter and Instagram • Subscribe to the Countdown newsletter After a week of hearing from the cutting-edge of climate action, we’ve filled our minds and hearts with ideas and solutions for a net-zero future. We gather for this final session of Countdown energized, curious and hopeful, knowing that we all share this […]

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Transformation: Notes from Session 3 of the Countdown Global Launch

October 10, 2020

Countdown is a global initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis. Watch the talks, interviews and performances from the Countdown Global Launch at ted.com/countdown. Transforming big systems is a huge task. Energy, transportation, industry and infrastructure all pose their own challenges. And yet that transformation is already happening. The experts in Session 3 showed […]

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TED and Future Stewards announce Countdown, a global initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis

September 14, 2020

Prince William, His Holiness Pope Francis, Yemi Alade, Monica Araya, Xiye Bastida, Jesper Brodin, Don Cheadle, Dave Clark, Christiana Figueres, Al Gore, António Guterres, Chris Hemsworth, Kara Hurst, Lisa Jackson, Rose Mutiso, Johan Rockström, Prince Royce, Mark Ruffalo, Sigrid, Jaden Smith, Nigel Topping and Ursula von der Leyen join scientists, activists, artists, schools and leaders […]

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