ben kaufman is disrupting not only how the world invents new products, but also the way you cultivate an innovative culture that befits the company's name, quirky. it's thursday night in new york city, and ben kaufman, the dynamic 28-year-old founder and ceo of quirky has invited me to be a panelist judging new product ideas as are thepart of the company's weekly ritual. >> you're watching for eproduct evaluation. our special guest panelist tonight is j.j. ramburg. give it up for j.j. ramburg. >> quirky describes itself as a company making invention accessible. every week the company sifts through thousands of product ideas submitted by the company's community. they then select the best ones to bring to eval to see if the new concept has merit. if it makes it to eval the idea goes to the quirky community for a healthy debate and vote. the evening fueled by pizza and beer is fun, fast and more than a little irrev very rent. >> j.j. what do you say? >> it comes down to price. i think there's a market for having cakes that look like this. all of these people are into martha stewart and c

we get to this space we have richard kaufman who is the chairman of energy and finance for new york state you heard about california being a leader on green issues benyork is doing a lot. we hope will have a chance to hear for up -- from him and then we have the director of federal and international programs at the sierra club who is monitoring the talks with the actions year by government and industry for the past several years. so i will take my place in the middle of the panel i thought there is so much said is gloom and doom in this space would be great to hear that this is a clear path for the u.s. to reach the climate goals and i want to start off that to ask you what the administration can do now to defend the actions that have been taken already from what we know are coming from congress from the uncertain future. how can the white house defend and what more can we expect to move to the clean energy future? >> thank-you. good morning. is important to step back to have a context about the action on climate change over the course of the two terms. when you go back to the beginning of the first term at that point our mission is were projected t