i also want to thank ambassador b bagley. many of you have experienced first hand elizabeth's ability to take on a mission. that's why i encouraged her to take on this center and launch this campaign to enlist the private sector and i'm very grateful to her for this extraordinary success. it is wonderful being here with all of my colleagues, and particularly, secretary kerry. none of this would be possible without secretary kerry's leadership and we all thank you very much, mr. skrecretary, for that. the diplomacy center as i think you have heard from each of my colleagues, a labor of love for all of us. now henry kissinger has written the book on diplomacy. i'm sure he'll have another book out just in time for the opening of the center, he's got one coming out this fall, so henry, get started on the next one, so that we can appreciate that. jim baker has been the real champion of this center and its realization. jim, it is wonderful, once again, being with you and susan, and thank you for the championing of this center and f

for more, we are joined by katherine bagley. she is a reporter with inside climate news. getting in today's march where have the world when it comes to taking action on climate change? >> there is no global agreements on what to do about climate change which is one of the things we will be hashing out on tuesday at the un, buta lothá+'f individual countries have -- have decided to take action themselves and a lot of the actions have been in europe, a lot of european countries are really on top of this. aldr lot ofbb#5 the island name, maldives that are literally disappearing into the action are, into the ocean are taking action, but there are a lot of carbon dioxide polluters that are, that don't have a national initiative on world change, china hasn't donecó ca>w>?x russia, india, a lot of people are going to pay attention to the big countries to see how committed they are on this because they haven't really been in the past. >> so you are out there in the march. you have been covering this for a while, is there organizing that went into it, what is the the purpose of to

i also want to thank ambassador bagley. as pat kennedy said in introducing her, many of you have experienced first-hand elizabeth's ability to set her mind to a mission. that's why i encouraged her to take on this diplomacy center, to build on all of the good work underway since 1999 and launch this campaign to enlist the private sector and i'm very grateful to her for this extraordinary success. it's wonderful being here with all of mycolleagues and particularly secretary kerry. none of this would be possible without secretary kerry's leadership and we all thank you very much, mr. secretary, for that. now the diplomacy center is, as i think you have heard from each of my colleagues, a labor of love for all of us. how, henry kissinger has written the book on diplomacy. i'm sure he will have another book out just in time for the opening of the center. he has got one coming out this fall, so henry get started on the next one. so that we can appreciate that. jim baker has been the real champion of this center and its realizati