tomorrow for the prime minister was my opening statement and he plays really a key role at the beginning of this week because he is the chair of this week because he is the chair of the leader s meeting which takes up of the leader s meeting which takes up the first two days on the stronger the statement that comes out of that meeting, the more likely it is that we get something meaningful at the end of the two weeks, the first meeting very much will set the mandate for all the negotiations that follow over the course of the two week and here is the scale of what they have to do. currently, our global emissions are forecast to grow 16% by 2030 and yet they must be reduced by 45% to keep they must be reduced by 45% to keep the global average temperature rise to that target of 1.5 c. beyond that, every .1 that the temperature rises, the problem gets exponentially worse. in his opening statement this afternoon, the president of the cop said this is our last best hope. a gloomy start