Today, a special TED Countdown conversation for you! Over the last few years, Christiana and Tom have enjoyed a close working relationship with TED Countdown and their incredible efforts to shift the conversation on climate change have been very aligned with the work we do at Outrage + Optimism. Earlier this year, Countdown ran a Dilemma Series in New York and the short episode that follows is the result of a conversation between myself and Professor James Dyke, an academic, writer, and author, an Associate Professor in Earth Systems Science, and Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts,and a Fellow of the European Geosciences Union. The subject of the Dilemma Series was focused on the question: Is there a role for carbon credits in the transition to a fair, net-zero future? - A topic that has the potential to be an incredibly divisive one in the climate community. The idea behind the dilemma series was to look at some of the ‘knots’ in the climate change space, like carbon credits, where diverging positions means momentum is stalled as we struggle to collaborate across our differences.  So today, we hope that you enjoy the agreeable disagreements that James and Tom had during this particular conversation, and we hope it inspires you to think how we might be able to work towards a unified approach to solving the biggest challenges we collectively face this decade. Be sure to check out TED Countdown’s film showcasing many of the conversations and events that happened during this particular dilemma session in New York. It’s an invitation to listen deeply, keep an open mind and get a little wiser on a complex topic.   NOTES + RESOURCES   Watch the TED Countdown Dilemma Series   James Dyke Associate Professor in Earth System Science | University of Exeter Website | Twitter | Mastodon