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what it is? well, katy, thanks very much. it s a pleasure to be here. look, this is an excellent deal for the world and an excellent deal for the united states. we got pretty much exactly what we wanted in this deal. it s ambitious, it s built on a bottom-up structure so every country gets to design their own program. it s nationally determined. we broke through the firewall that had existed essentially between developed and developing countries for so many years where china and india and others were treated differently, and now they re fully in the game. it s transparent and it s built on a kind of legal hybrid where, as you said, the targets themselves are not legally binding. so it s an important really a landmark agreement, and one without which you can t really address climate change. because climate change is a fundamentally global problem. you can t deal with it the way that you would air pollution or water pollution which are local. you ve got to have everybody in the game,
worker had a union. so people say there s no leverage there. we created a bottom-up structure said said we ll talk to other workers and have the workers talk to their religious leader in the region about why having union matters. and then we ll have them all talk to their pta and little league and soccer coach and soccer mom and we began a broad based grassroots strategy to reeducate people about how we created good jobs in the country and the base came from the churches, sip goings, mosques, the parent-teacher association, little league and soccer fields we collectively formed an organization to begin to fight. that s leverage at the polls and leverage against the employers. it was a grassroots effort by a whole community rising up and saying, we have to create it by forming union and defending workers and forming union and we shifted an entire market in southern connecticut from nonunion to union in several years by taking that approach because we said childcare matters. affordable h