-: I've always had a very strong environmental ethos.
I tell people, it's really something my mother instilled
in me at a very young age.
My mother was like recycling before
it was even a thing in the US
and so that's always sort of been my driver
and I have worked in environmental management
in various areas since I started my career 30-plus years ago
and I came to working on climate because it just,
it has become such an urgent issue
and it's an issue that benefits from the skills
and expertise that I've built up over time,
and so it's just something that I've been drawn to
and that I feel like I can contribute, so.
In the work that I do now
and that I have in fact done for some time,
most of my clients are US government clients,
and working with the US government just comes with lots
of challenges frankly.
Bureaucracy, inefficiency,
and so for us, we're always trying to
think three steps ahead
and do things on parallel tracks while we wait for approval
of this, we're already working on what we're
going to do when we assume
that mechanism is going to be approved.
So that's most of it.
I don't want to get into politics
but the current situation with our federal government
and particularly the White House is an incredible challenge.
Just for a little bit of history,
it took eight years under the Obama administration
for the US to really get onto the cutting-edge
in terms of climate change research,
science, and action, and I fear we are losing some
of that cutting-edge expertise
and ability to take action now.