Hello and welcome to outrage and optimism. I'm Tom Rivikarnik.

I'm Christiana Figueres.

And I'm Paul Dickinson.

Today we are going to look at the levers of change we can pull when governments don't do their jobs.

Okay friends, so off the back of the Paris episode that we did last week, where we looked at the kind of days of halcyon possibility in

Paris and how challenging things are now. What we want to do today is dig into the levers of

change that are available to us at difficult moments. But first, we have to get into what's happening

in the US because it's so outrageous. This is a lot worse than 2017 when Trump was inaugurated

the first time. 33 executive orders have now rolled back so much of what we've been trying to achieve on climate.

Putting back in place fossil fuels, banning offshore wind, blocking EV infrastructure.

Trump is basically trying to reverse the progress that was made in the Biden administration

and put back the US on this path to fossil fuels. Of course, the irony there is

that the US is already pumping fossil fuels at maximum production capacity. And Darren Woods,

the CEO of ExxonMobil, has actually gone on record and said he doesn't think the US can produce

any more oil and gas. So all of this is political theatre. The other thing I would say,

and this is completely heartbreaking,

is Trump, together with Elon Musk, have been systematically dismantling the parts of the US government that are designed to help the most vulnerable people around the world. In particular,

USAID, which Musk has been crowing about shuddering over the course of the last week, putting

the world's most vulnerable people on the path to unimaginable hardships. Resistance is late, but it's coming. There are now legal

battles mounting in the US, states beginning to fight back, and the next few weeks will reveal a

great deal about what the next few years are going to be made of. How are you both managing

against this onslaught and what's catching your

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