It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom, filling in for Brian today. On today's show, for the Climate Story of the Week,

a preview of COP 28, the global climate

talks beginning at the end of the month.

The United States has announced it will join a loss and damage fund due to climate change. We'll talk

about what it is and what it means. Plus for Transgender Awareness Week, which is

happening now, we'll remember Leiline Polanco.

She was a young trans woman who died while in solitary confinement

at Rikers Island in 2019.

My guest for that conversation

will be the trans activist Bracelle Willis.

And we'll wrap up today's show with your answers to a perennial question.

Where should I bring my out-of-town guests when they visit this time of year. Call in with your suggestions,

we'll want to hear the obvious touristy attractions that are all worth it, and of course

those hidden gems. But first, while many of New York's top lawmakers were away in Puerto Rico last week for

Somos, that annual political conference and place to be seen and be seen, Mayor Eric Adams stayed back here in New York City.

At last week's off-topic press conference, he said, this is why he was not attending.

I'm not going this year for a number of reasons and you know

I felt sort of disappointed with even my team here normally the city picks up the tab to go to Somos, but I told all my team

members that if they go they have to pay their own way to go. Because we're dealing

with a serious fiscal crisis in this city beyond our imagination.

This is projected to be a tough budget cycle for the city and the mayor said he was staying here to be fiscally responsible, but there's a lot going on in connection

to a sprawling corruption investigation connected to the Mayor's 2021 campaign.

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