Hi friends, I'm so sorry I'm not with you this week.

I'm here at London Climate Action Week.

I'm at the opening event and I have to say, coming here, I did wonder what the mood was going to be.

I'm sure my friends Paul and Christiana talked about this 1.5 report that came out recently saying,

we're going to blow through the targets in just a couple of years.

And coming here, I thought, wow, maybe there'll be a kind of down, depressed mood about what's happening. And I've, you know, we're only a few hours in,

but I've been stunned to discover it is completely the opposite. Everybody is looking at solutions,

opportunity, momentum, the fact the costs are coming down and the breakthroughs that now feel

closer than they ever have before. And right at the heart of that is the narrative around health.

That really seems to be landing here in London.

So many people I've spoken to have said they've started talking about health

and that has changed the nature of the conversation and opened up the possibility

to talk more about solutions, yes, because of the economics, yes, because of climate change,

but also because it impacts human health right now.

So it's only the first day, but it's been really interesting and encouraging and optimistic already.

Hello and welcome to outrage and optimism. I'm Paul Dickinson. I'm Christiana Fijeres and

where in the world is Tom? He's gone missing in London Climate Action Week.

As I understand it, there are like tens of thousands of people running around London

doing climate change-related things.

And I think he's just got sort of lost in the crowd, as far as I can cover.

But let's get on to the episode.

This week, as scientists warn, the world is on track to breach one and a half degrees of warming within just a few years.

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