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economy, and the environment.

Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time,

Climate One is the place where big ideas get heard.

With thoughtful and insightful discussions

on policy, business, science, and culture, Climate One founder Greg Dalton gets to the heart of the

matter. It's our future. It's time to come together. I'm Greg Dalton. On this special Climate One

program, we're going on the road for a tour of the UN Climate Summit in Paris.

We'll take you to different corners of this Olympic-sized event and talk with farmers, food and energy entrepreneurs, and youths whose families are being affected by climate disruption now.

We begin in a diplomatic compound on the outskirts of Paris where the official negotiations are taking place amid tight security.

It's like a world's fair for political and business elites, with country pavilions displaying how they're greening their economy.

Some of the most bullish economies are on the west coast of North America, and I sat down with five leaders from there who are not waiting for the

international agreement to start in 2020. I spoke with California Governor Jerry Brown, Washington

Governor Jay Inslee, British Columbia's Environment Minister Mary Pollock, Vancouver Mayor Gregor

Robertson, and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff. I started by asking Governor Brown about business groups

and say his campaign to stabilize the climate hurts the economy. I think the bigger businesses

are more climate friendly, as it were. The smaller, more independent people, you know,

driving a truck or having a...

They feel the burden and they don't have the, I don't know, the psychic space to see the bigger picture.

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