--- title: Watch: 2021 in Climate Videos description: From an interview with Jane Goodall to a documentary about a new generation of activists, here are TIME's top climate videos of the year. canonical: https://time.com/6130233/climate-video-2021/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2021-12-27T17:00:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:03:44.115Z article:section: Climate og:title: Watch: The Year in Climate og:description: From an interview with Jane Goodall to a documentary about a new generation of activists og:url: https://time.com/6130233/climate-video-2021/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3dd74ec5edbce59f/698a20e7d075334e90e6c5fa/konstantinos-tsakalidis-top-10-photos-2021.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2400 og:image:height: 1350 og:image:alt: Top 10 Photos 2021: Konstantinos Tsakalidis og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch: The Year in Climate twitter:description: From an interview with Jane Goodall to a documentary about a new generation of activists twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3dd74ec5edbce59f/698a20e7d075334e90e6c5fa/konstantinos-tsakalidis-top-10-photos-2021.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch: The Year in Climate > Sponsored content. 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Konstantinos Tsakalidis—Bloomberg/Getty Images by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Dec 27, 2021 5:00 PM UTC In 2021, the devastation of the planet increasingly demanded our attention. At TIME, we covered [extended droughts](https://time.com/extreme-heat-climate-change/), record-breaking [hurricanes](https://time.com/6053535/hurricane-season-2021/) and unprecedented [wildfires](https://time.com/6087748/wildfires-around-the-world-photos/). Here is a selection of some of our most thought-provoking climate videos of the year. ## _The Enduring Hope of Jane Goodall_ The environmentalist spoke to TIME about her new book, life during the pandemic and the ongoing climate crisis. As Ciara Nugent [writes](https://time.com/6102640/jane-goodall-environment-hope/), Goodall’s quiet determination powered her through a lifetime of activism. In this video, Goodall argues that hope—which she makes it her mission to spread—is nothing short of necessary for the survival of humanity. --- ## _Generation Now: The Fight for Climate Action_ Today’s young people are coming of age just as the stable climate that has allowed previous generations to thrive on our planet begins to visibly break down—and just before our last chance to stop it falls out of reach. [This documentary](https://time.com/6114499/generation-now-climate-activists-video/) takes viewers through the history of youth climate activism. --- ## _John Kerry Is Bringing America Back Into the Climate Fight_ Despite [years](https://time.com/5864692/climate-change-defining-moment/) of [setbacks](https://time.com/6117499/cop26-final-agreement/) in climate policy, John Kerry responds to every question with optimism that reason will prevail, according to Justin Worland, who [interviewed](https://time.com/6109178/john-kerry-climate-interview/) Kerry for a cover profile. “I’ve always believed in diplomacy,” Kerry says. “I believe in the ability of people to sit down and try to work reasonably together.” --- ## _The Cow That Could Feed the Planet_ Mosa Meats, which launched the first lab-grown burger in 2013, is in a race to make an affordable alternative to beef patties. TIME [was given an exclusive look](https://time.com/6109450/sustainable-lab-grown-mosa-meat/#:~:text=Tawny%20brown%2C%20compact%20and%20muscular,southernmost%20province%20of%20the%20Netherlands.) into their labs and manufacturing process. ## Transcript In 2013. Where does Chef? Richard McGowan, was asked to cook a dish. The world had never tasted before a burger ground outside of a cow and an elaborate or E. It looks like any other province of the stage or any other beef ago, but I didn't, but this burger cost $330,000 to make scalloped money. I made the money, does baby face, me and stop responsibility. My biggest concern was the product relatively tremendously. In fact, this was clean tasting. Simple burger. And that was the, what was the goal of the day? Years later more than 70 startups are now competing to bring what is known as the cell, cultivated meat from beef stew, chicken and even kangaroo to markets around the world. Advocate. See these Latin alternative as a way to reduce industrial agricultural deals, like the negative impact on the climate and Animal. Welfare abuse has most of meet a company developing style, cultivated Burgers, invited time to take an exclusive. Look at its facilities in the Dutch city of mess play. This is our first sylheti where we at the last number of production facility. And what we're doing here is creating a culture because beef has the biggest impact on climate change. And that is really and right. We replace me to meet at the same same same experience as traditional lines. We're essentially doing something that nobody has ever done before. the technology was in, it was existing but never had anybody tried to produce this at scale or Or in a cost-effective manner. Technology to make. This happen is essentially derived from a medical technology and uses cell culture and tissue culture to make. Now a consumer product instead of a tissue that we want to replace in a human body. Ironically, perhaps the process Starts Here on a cattle farm. All the companies from these cows is a small biopsy of tissue. Gently remove the vet applies. A topical anesthetic to the couch blank. That makes a small incision to remove peppercorn size amount of muscle tissue, any stitches up the wound and send the cow on its way. Each tissue sample, then goes on to the most of Meat Lab for cell proliferation. Chapter 10 different teams. What you're looking at right now is just a sample to make sure that it's growing correctly, that it's happy news. Basically making the largest federal police multiple. A plane Casino. Formosa me to impact the market in a meaningful way. The company will need to overcome a few hurdles in order to make their burgers affordable enough for the everyday person. They need to scale up production. There is a lot of Technology available to scale up cell production, but it's mostly used for very specific cells in the Pharma industry cells that are engineered to be comfortable in those large bioreactors ourselves are not. So we have to kind of adapt the whole system. This will happen, but it just takes time. Most of meat also must get approval from regulatory bodies to start selling his patties. So far only to sell base. Chicken companies have been approved for sale in Singapore. And another in Israel, regulatory approval is more a matter of time because I'm convinced that this product is safe and it will be approved. It's just how much time do the Need to get to that point. I don't need to convince consumers that meat ground outside of an animal is something they actually want on their dinner plate. That choice, that could be heavily influenced by what these products are called. I can see that there is some value in being able to call this meet. I also think it's eventually misleading not to call it meat, because if it's essentially the same the same tissue, then you shouldn't call it something else. But I also think it's misleading to just call it meets, other people think. Oh, yeah, this is coming from the cow. Do you need to have a qualifier people understand that it's made it a different way. The reason why we're doing this is truly to avert a couple of disaster scenarios. We don't have two choices that we think we have. It's not like we can continue on the way we're doing this, just not possible. So either we accept this or we all become vegetarian in The Culinary World. 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