Welcome everyone. This is our very first episode of our new podcast Outrage and Optimism

and we would like to talk about why both are necessary to reshape the world.

Thanks for joining us on this our very first episode and today we set out why we feel that both outrage and

optimism are necessary to move us beyond the crisis of climate change to create

kinder, healthier, and more beautiful world for everyone.

And we talked to David Attenborough, the broadcaster and naturalist and host of our planet,

who has done so much to bring a love of the natural world to so many people. But before that, as this

is the first episode, just let us quickly introduce ourselves. I'm Christina Figueroge as

former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Guatemala, I had the pleasure of bringing all countries together for the Paris Agreement on

Climate Change. And today, I continue to work for my one and only boss the global

atmosphere on which all of us inhabitants of the planet depend.

And my name is Paul Dickinson I co co-founded CDP, the largest NGOs showing what business is doing on climate change and where 20% of all global emissions are reported each year.

And my name's Tom Rivet Carnacack and I've spent much of my professional career

working with and for both these individuals. Paul was my first boss at CDP in the early days and more recently I worked with Christina at the United Nations

running the secret strategic campaign to achieve the Paris Agreement.

And by now we have all become very good friends and continue to want to work together.

And we're going to be speaking to you every week about some of the most important issues that

are now shaping our world. We've called the

podcast outrage and optimism because we believe both are going to be necessary to

make the transformations that we need to make, but we're also aware that they seem like they

shouldn't fit together. So we thought we'd start this week by talking to you about

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