The shift we saw in washington yesterday about 4 00 p. M. We dont need to be on this all day. Every other network is going to cover it up and sideways come but this this is original actions by a president of the United States, really reminiscent of what we saw in 1876. It is a story our Washington Team will cover. This election of 2020 continues. Jonathan that tuesday night still continues in some ways. The news of the last 15 minutes is on the vexing front. Pfizer on the vaccine front. Pfizer set to file today for emergency other ration emergency authorization use. Think that has been the sequence, and each time there is a lesser market reaction. Jonathan i tugofwar continues. If we think about the tugofwar right now, the tension is phenomenal. On the one side, the darkening near term outlook because of the restrictions in the of the economy, and then the brightening forward outlook it can get vaccinations started in month. In the last 24 hours, the Federal Reserve and the treasury se
Expressed interest and are considering participating and then we certainly have, you know, many managers who are engaging with Portfolio Companies around climate risk but perhaps not formally through that initiative. Okay. And then my other concern is, we talked about diversity and i like what youve done in terms of the work around that. Do we use that same [indiscernible] in terms of rps and other things, do we really apply the sfers criteria for the type of diversity were looking for across the board, including [indiscernible] and other sectors . I cant fully comment on that. I guess what i can say is, you know, there is proposition 209 in place in california i know. Thats why i i know. Up to a vote, thats in november. But we do not i want to make clear that we do not ask about diversity characteristics when we send out an rfp or enter a new relationship or a new contract with an external party. Were wanting to be not running afoul of distortion . The board is engaging, we do request
Ask the public to participate remotely by writing to the board or leaving a voicemail message. For all comments received in advance of the meeting we have received and we appreciate these comments. While Technology Allows us to hold these meetings via teleconference, it may not be as seamless as it would like to be. There will be gaps in some airtime, staff at times the staff transitions between the speakers and the callers. Know that we are doing the best that we possibly can and we ask for your understanding and patience as we are all learning this new way of working together. A reminder to the Board Members to mute themselves to minimize the background noise. Board members will have to remember to unmute themselves to comment. Again, were going to ask everyone to be patient as we make these adjustments. Madam secretary, roll call, please. Clerk [roll call] we do have a quorum. President bridges . Number two, communications. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and t due to the covid1
Calmly as discussed we did initiate x. Amount his own therapy and he received his 1st dose of that yesterday and our plan is to continue that for the time being today he feels well hes been up and around our plan for today is to have him to eat and drink. Out of bed as much as possible to be mobile and if you continue to look and feel as well as he does today our hope is that we can plan for a discharge as early as tomorrow to the white house where he can continue his treatment course. Tens of thousands of people have been marching through the center of the russian capital as protest against president lukashenko and to a 9th week demonstrators headed towards Detention Centers in minsk demanding that Political Prisoners be freed but hes used water cannon and cordoned off streets witnesses have reported many arrests. One essential asias poorest countries kyrgyzstan has been voting for a new parliament and 3 establishment parties looks set to dominate preliminary results suggest the party
distortion . Just for point of clarification, i didnt hear you call my name so i didnt respond aye. But to respond, yes, i support the motion. [indiscernible]. I will call the vote again on item 11. [roll call] i vote aye. Theres something wrong with this computer. You have five ayes. The motion passes. Thank you, madam secretary. Next item, please. Number 12, action item, update on strategies to address climate risk in the sfers portfolio Climate Action plan. [indiscernible] on this item as well as the previous five, theres a great amount of information [indiscernible]. The tenor of the item is on page 37 [indiscernible]. Bill, sorry to interrupt you but we can barely hear you. Can you hear me now . distortion . The centrepiece of this item is on page 37, table 10, Additional Companies to [indiscernible]. I did want to also draw attention to theres just a voluminous amount of information in the report and thanks to andrew for organizing it all. There is a significant decline as far as