TEDxGuangzhou (TEDxXiguan) 2014-2023

为什么气候变化与你有关

刘君言

比起一百年前，广州的年平均气温已经上升了1.4℃。你可能会想，1.4℃而已，真的有那么严重吗？那如果是2℃、3℃呢？当“气候变化”被当作一个全球议题来谈时，我们常觉得它离自己很遥远，温度升高也似乎无感，甚至会怀疑，个人的努力真的有意义吗？

刘君言希望通过这次分享，让我们重新理解气候与自身的关联，也看到——每一个人的行动，都能成为改变的起点。

从女性主义研究出发，再到攻读经济学博士，君言始终关注“平等”与“发展”的议题。她在研究中发现，气候变化正在加剧社会不平等，把本就处于弱势的人群推向更大的风险中，而经济系统的惯性却让这一切变本加厉。她不愿只停留在理论研究上，选择成为一名气候行动者，亲身参与气候风险管理与能源转型的推动。

她是绿色和平气候风险项目的负责人，拥有可持续发展经济学博士学位。在她看来，这场关乎全人类未来的气候危机，唯有通过行动，才能带来希望与真正的改变。

Why climate change matters to you

Junyan Liu

Guangzhou is now 1.4℃ warmer than it was a century ago. You might wonder—so what if it’s 1.4℃? What difference does 2℃ or even 3℃ really make? When climate change is talked about on a global scale, it can feel distant, hard to relate to. The rise in average temperatures feels abstract, and we start to doubt whether anything we do as individuals truly matters.

In this talk, Junyan Liu invites us to reconnect with the issue—personally. She wants us to see that individual action, no matter how small, can set meaningful change in motion.

From her early studies in feminism to her PhD in economics, Junyan has been driven by questions of equity and development. Her research showed that climate change deepens inequality, putting vulnerable communities at even greater risk.

But systemic inertia keeps things moving in the wrong direction. That’s why she chose to move beyond academic work—to become a climate activist directly engaged in driving climate risk response and energy transition.

Today, Junyan is the head of Greenpeace’s Climate Risk Program and holds a PhD in sustainable development economics. She believes that climate change is a crisis threatening humanity’s future—and that only action can bring hope and real change.