Welcome to the LSE events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
The mechanics of being here right now is that it's much cooler than it is outside.
So I think pretty soon we'll heat it up with a bit of our conversation,
which I think we're all looking forward to.
Nice to see everyone.
Glad we've got a full group to kind of hear some of the work that's underway.
I'm Jonathan Pershing.
I'm the dean of the Global School of Sustainability here at the London School of Economics.
And I'd like to welcome you all to this evening's conversation, which is on global trends in climate mitigation.
I think many of you came because you know exactly what you're going to hear,
which is really interesting material with a lot of new insight and an update on really a global phenomenon.
Which we can kind of record and think about how things are transpiring in this agenda.
We've got a few just announcements before I start off.
We've got some things that we always have to do here.
This event is being recorded and live streamed.
That, among other things, means please turn your cell phones to silent because they can interfere with the process.
And when we have Q&A, we'll actually invite questions from our live stream audience,
and that'll be a chance for us to get feedback from others who couldn't make it to the room.
Just for people who are aware, it's hot, not quite so hot in here,