Why Rachel Kyte doesn't listen to climate polls

Well, it's happening in the middle of the most severe heat wave that the United Kingdom's ever experienced.

And so it's tinged with regret because we're at that moment now where we're talking about here and now.

We're talking about people's lives.

We're talking about health systems and education systems that are struggling to cope.

We're talking about transport systems that are closing down.

And here we are, 75,000 people, 1,400 events over a course of a week.

The whole world is here.

And the whole world is here to talk about climate solutions.

It's joyful, tinged with deep sadness and regret.

The joy in it is that the right people are in the right rooms talking about the right things at the right time.

That doesn't happen everywhere.

And I've been absolutely stunned this year as well as last by the innovation and creativity that you see in the City of London, which is our financial center.

The range of issues that are being discussed and also this very strong tilt towards resilience and adaptation.

I mean, whereas a few years ago it was still mitigation, mitigation, mitigation.

I think it's really started to move across now.

And so yesterday I was doing methane and short-lived climate pollutants in the presence of His Majesty the King.

I've been doing lots of really exciting sort of financial plumbing and engineering stuff, some real celebrations of extraordinary new financial innovations, our ability to come up with new financial structures that serve the hardest to reach people in the world, often refugees living in transient settings.

So with with renewable energy.

So I'm I'm like more invigorated than than than ever.

I'm also very hot, sweaty and exhausted.

Is that helpful in terms of driving negotiations or I suppose discussions toward a productive resolution or is everyone just sort of too hot to function?

No, I think what's interesting is because we've got COP 29, COP 30, COP 31 and COP 32 presidencies all here in their glory.

And this is the action, right? This is the action decade.

And the Brazilians did a really extraordinary job, I thought, of putting the emphasis on the action agenda in Belém last year and the Turkish presidency.

So Turkey is taking that up for this year.