Hello and welcome to outrage and optimism. I'm Tom Ravit Karnak. I'm Christiana Figueres.

And I'm Paul Dickinson. Today we bring you the final episode of 2024 and we answer your questions.

Thanks for being here.

So friends, another year is over.

Now we are basically on the edge of being halfway through the most decisive decade in human history, as we've been used to calling it.

I can't quite believe how we turned around and all of a sudden half the decade had gone.

Wait, Tom, is half the decade the beginning of 2025 or the end?

I mean, I know this is a technicality, but I think it's the end.

I mean, the fact that we had to be 40%, you know, 40% down on emissions by the end of this decade and we're still going up,

I'll take all the extra time you're prepared to give me to make this change.

I'm not sure it makes that much difference.

But it's good to know that we're experts on counting to 10, so well done, team.

This is really good.

That's right.

Five is roughly in the middle.

My sense, I don't know about yours, is a lot of people who are involved in the climate

and nature movement are ending the year a little bit on their knees, a little bit like we

really hope to see big step-ups this year. Maybe some of which have materialised,

but others of which haven't. So it's probably just good to acknowledge that we are all going to have

years like this. And that doesn't mean that we have lost the trajectory to dealing with this issue.

Paul's looking like, I'm mixing my metaphors or I'm doing something. It's just kind of like,

we're ending the year on our knees. I don't think it's

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