 Today is Thursday the 17th of November. It's the penultimate day. Tomorrow the pop ends There are some final negotiations still going on on the CMA, but more or less Much of the work has already been completed. It's one of the fastest cops. We've seen Normally we go to the very last minute, but in this case many of the issues have been resolved, which is a good sign I'm going to talk today about an initiative or several initiatives that we've been involved in Two of which have gone very fast in the last 24 or 48 hours One of them is a networking of universities from developed and developing countries We held a side event in Kadi Ayad University a few days ago on Tuesday And then since then this morning we did another one with the Ringo constituency in the UNFCC Blue Zone and we got a tremendous amount of support So we are now going to launch this network of Universities and think tanks from both North and South to engage with the UNFCC Particularly the Paris Agreement Article 11 on capacity building which focuses on long-term capacity building and not just short-term consultant-driven Capacity building so we now have a very good initiative. We've got a couple of partners Kadi Ayad University Independent University Bangladesh and possibly Brown University and the Colorado State University in the US as well So that networking of universities, which is both North and South is going forward at the same time we have been talking to a smaller number of Universities from least developed countries and we now have a university of Senegal the University of Gambia University in Nepal Macarena University in Uganda Subway in a university in Tanzania and the University of Khartoum and Sudan and we are going to form a consortium of 10 Universities from least developed countries So these are very specifically in the poorest countries in the world and also very specifically focusing on adaptation And not mitigation and then within adaptation. We will focus on Community-based adaptation working with the most vulnerable communities We have got the country the universities and parts people to buy into it We'll go forward and write a concept note on this in January in Bangladesh We hope to convene the whole group all of all 10 of them. We will do some more planning and Discuss with others to for collaboration and then in June during the community-based adaptation 11th conference That will be placed happening in Kampala hosted by Macarena University we will announce the activities of the consortium so things are moving very fast But in a very positive direction And on the UNFCC front as of tonight we do have the Paris Committee on capacity building They will be having their first meeting in May So we will try and do both our initiatives the university network and the LDC University Consortium we're calling it LDC universities consortium on climate change or luck for short LUCCC and both of these initiatives should be up and running by the time the Paris Committee beats in May in one