Hello and welcome to outrage and optimism. I'm Tom Rifekarnik. I'm Christiana Figueres. I'm Paul Dickinson.

And I'm Fiona McGrath. This week we will be talking about cops where they come from and what they mean,

as well as doing a post-match analysis on the General Assembly meetings from New York. And we speak to

Brazilian journalist Taiz Belenki. Thanks for being here.

Hi, friends. So nice to be back together today. We really missed you last week in New York. It's

never the same without you two, Paul and Christiana. And we're going to get into... Wait, wait,

is that serious or we're just absolutely delighted that we weren't there?

You may be delighted, but actually, I have to say that I'm sure you looked at all of the

analysis and, you know, governments are falling behind, all that stuff. And of course, all of that's true and we should get into all of that. But I have to say, and I'm curious to know where the feet had the same response, there was quite a lot of energy in New York last week. It didn't feel like the sort of damp squib that I kind of stupidly assumed it might be.

Actually, I thought a lot of people were moving forward and the energy was really there. last week. It didn't feel like the sort of damp squib that I kind of stupidly assumed it might be.

Actually, I thought a lot of people were moving forward and the energy was really there.

I totally agree. And I mean, again, we'll get into what we actually heard from governments on

NDCs. But I think as a community at a time when so much negativity and pessimism is permeating

the power of coming together and being surrounded by so much

energy. And I hope listeners, you felt that as well, hearing live from us on the ground. It was

buoying in a time when it often feels like you're just drowning. Just to put some reality there,

in addition to impressions, the largest Climate Week ever by numbers of participation.

That in itself already expresses where most people want to go.

Climate Week started under Obama and there was a very sort of positive environment.

But my general experience of working with, so to say, non-state actors and corporations

and all this kind of thing is at one level, I mean, clearly there's this whole scary US situation, but they need to come together at times of opposition more than ever. That's the most important time to get together and say, you know, we're not in crazy town. And to stand with each other, you know,

Trump's super crazy speech at the UN, actually reality itself is being sort of challenged. And

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