As we enter the festive season, I wish everyone a joyous holiday season and a riotous New Year. I will be taking some needed time off until the New Year and hope to begin 2024 with renewed creativity for our governance research. With COP 28 now in its last week, it seems we go forward one step and sometimes two steps back. Let’s hope for major break throughs, bold leadership by governments and industry leaders as we move through this very critical period for our humanity. These are indeed very difficult times to be hopeful, but I recall the words of one of my heroes, Greta Thunberg, you get hope by acting. Let us all act and speak up and out for climate change and biodiversity throughout 2024.