You're listening to TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hugh. World leaders met in Glasgow in the fall of 2021 for the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, or COP 26. Today's speaker, Hala Thomas Daughter, was there. In her conversation from TED Women 2021 with our TED Women curator, Pat

Mitchell, Hala sums up the outcomes from the conference, the progress she saw, and the work

that's left to be done. Thank you, Hala. So help us understand what happened, what didn't,

what in your opinion were the outcomes of COP 26.

Thank you, Pat. And hello, everyone.

In short, we made progress, but we are not on track to deliver the world we need.

And I'm a stubborn optimist.

So I want to uplift the ground we took because it was important ground.

But I also want to be very clear that I left Glasgow with a very visceral feeling

that there was this escaping generational and trust gap,

that we are almost unable to bridge because we have become so deeply divided

and we're essentially in a crisis of trust. And so we're facing an existential climate crisis,

but the greatest barrier may be that we don't have trust. And so let me try to give you a few

things to feel hopeful for that I do think came out of

this cup because I think it matters for us to spring into action to have hope.

And so what I would like to uplift, number one, is that I think the agenda, the climate

agenda, is becoming more holistic than it has been.

It's no longer just about reducing greenhouse gas

emissions as important as that is. Nature is on the agenda. And we're at least talking about

justice and inclusion. We weren't doing that just a few years ago. Now we need to act on it,

but at least we're talking about it. So a more holistic agenda. Second, I believe this COP will be remembered as the COP where business and finance showed up.

And we can say that doesn't matter because the COP process is created for governments,

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