Matthew Phillips

I am in such trouble.

But he said, I know what you and your partners are doing, and I want you to know we support it.

And I realized that when you start creating the places, the spaces where everyone can participate without finger-pointing, you start to connect and collaborate on an entirely new dimension.

After that, we were getting spoken about by the negotiators.

They would text us and say, hey, please keep the pressure up.

When the hammer finally came down on the last day of the negotiations, governments agreed to transition away from fossil fuels.

not perfect, sure, but the first time fossil fuels had ever been mentioned in a UN climate text.

And while we knew our effort was only ever a small part of the overall success, we also felt like we were tapping into this collective energy that was greater than the sum of the individual parts.

But before I get completely carried away,

This house that we're building for our climate movement obviously needs to stretch way beyond these formal climate negotiations.

There'd be nearly 30 of them, after all.

And it needs to be a house where we build trust, where those inside it are honest, and we particularly need trust from those big organizations that make up the global economy.

So before Dubai, I helped to create the world's largest climate coalition in a campaign called Race to Zero.

It's got 15,000 organizations now covering two-thirds of the global economy, and they've all set their sights on halving emissions by 2030 and getting to zero by 2050.

And that's promising, but simply having a bigger house is not enough on its own.

Some of these organizations are struggling to meet that goal.

Some of them are pulling back, going quiet, or being unable to ask for help.

And this is leading to a breakdown in trust, which threatens to pull our movement down from the inside.

If we don't have trust, if we don't have truth,

Our movement is nothing.