 I'm going to report now on the first day of CBA 8 in Nepal. It went very well. It was a long day. We started with the inaugural session, which was graced by the Chief Guest, the Prime Minister of Nepal, Honorable Kaurala. He was chaired by the Secretary of the Ministry of Technology and Environment and also the Joint Secretary of the Ministry, Prakash Matema, who is also the Chair of the Leaseable Countries Group in the UNFCC. We had speeches from Atik Rahman on behalf of BCAS, one of the co-organizers myself on behalf of IID, Sam Bikastef on behalf of CDK and Balaram on behalf of Liburd, who are our local host organizations. It went very well. The Prime Minister was very inspiring. We all were very inspired by Nepal's efforts at allocating 80% of their global funds for adaptation to the local level and also the very innovative lapas that they have produced the local adaptation plans of action. So those got a good round of applause and support. We then had plenary sessions on mainstreaming, breakout sessions on various different topics. We have records of all of these on our website, so please go ahead and look at www.cbaa.org. If you want to see them, we will also have recordings of the major speeches that were made in the inaugural and we ended yesterday's sessions with a plenary with well over 300 people all playing a game, which was both great fun but also a learning exercise on how communities can adapt or manage to deal with disasters. It was designed and run by Pablo Suarez from the Climate Center of the Red Cross and everybody had great fun. There are videos and photographs on the website and a lot of tweeting going on about it. And then in the evening we had a reception hosted by the government of Nepal where they very kindly provided us with very nice Nepalese food and some cultural programs, dances, Nepalese traditional dances. So everybody had a very relaxed evening and enjoyed themselves and a lot of getting to know each other, networking. And late at night we had a small group meet to talk about the upcoming Kathmandu declaration which we want to produce on the last day. We started a little drafting group. We have a little early structure for it. We are going to seek inputs from our participants over the next two days and on the night of the 29th which is tomorrow night we will finalize it and on the morning of the 30th at the closing session I will announce it publicly to the world and we hope that everybody will then pay attention. We will be live streaming the opening at 11 am Kathmandu time and we hope that many people will watch us at that time and many people will be aware of the Kathmandu declaration which will be the main outcome of the conference. And I will be reporting back again on the second day's events later on.