-: I'm coming to you from COP26,
the UN's global climate conference,
in an absolutely essential year
in the battle to accelerate our progress
on reducing carbon emissions
and getting the world on a much better pathway.
The first two days are the World Leaders Summit,
and I'm encouraged by some of what we've heard:
the progress on reforestation and land use,
the launch of the First Movers Coalition,
which is all about advancing technology
and making forward commitments
so that innovators can be bolder
in scaling up new technology that the world needs
to bring down climate.
I also had a chance to speak with Bill Gates
about Breakthrough Energy Catalyst and his efforts,
that we're now one of the founding partners of,
to also accelerate new technologies
in absolutely critical areas.
We have a lot of work still to do, and frankly,
this COP-with the negotiations that are still underway
between political leaders around the world-
is absolutely essential to make continued progress.
But it's encouraging to see
not just our political leaders engaging,
but the role that the business community is playing
to actively step up,
dramatically increase the number of companies
making net zero commitments-
and not just making commitments
but also figuring out how to get on pathways for themselves
and for their supply chains and business partners.
I'm optimistic also of what we're gonna see
out of the financial community,
and what I expect
to be many trillions of dollars of investment
that's going against carbon-reduction goals.
So overall, it's an encouraging start,
a lot of work left to do,
but we're in it together and we need to work together
across the public, the private, and the social sectors
to get us on the path we need to be on.