this sponsor is deborah ravel director, and the wendy goodfriend, a program manager and charles sheahan with public affairs officer. this item is up for discussion. >> president bermejo: director raphael. >> director raphael: thank you. president bermej bermejo, what h it has been. i have to say that i think that most of us, in fact, everyone that i have talked to felt that the global climate action summit exceeded any of our expectations. the mayor shone, the city shone, the world saw what we're capable of. i want to set a bit of context to why this was such an important moment. governor brown announced the summit because there wasn't a good place in the united nations process, in their conference of the parties, when they negotiate the paris agreement for what they call "sub-national actors." those are cities, states and regions. and being the governor of a very active state it was frustrating to him to go to paris and find that there was no place for a state leader at that negotiations. when president trump made the decision to pull out of the paris accords, governor brown was motiva