You know, at first glance, it is a global issue.
Climate change is the epitome of a global environmental challenge,
it affects all countries, it affects all people around the world
and we all contribute to it, all countries contribute,
although in different measures, to the climate challenge.
And so it's kind of logical that you need to have a multilateral approach,
at least also to dealing with this problem, to coordinating,
to communicating about this problem,
to seeing what different countries are doing, you know,
how it all adds up to getting towards a common goal,
even if a lot of the action ultimately happens at the national
and even at the sub-national level
and in the private sector and in civil society.
This being the quintessential global issue
is an issue that we need to have all countries participating in the discussion about,
and the multilateral process is the process in which even the smallest and, let's say,
economically or politically least powerful country will have an equal weight in the discussion
at the table of these multilateral debates and negotiations.