 Today is the 30th of April. It's the end of our CBA 8 conference. It ended at lunchtime today We had two sessions in the morning. The first was a plenary session of the conference people only we reflected on the conference on The field visits. We had some nice fit it photographs shared about the field visits and then We agreed on a way forward, which was to agree on the Kathmandu declaration which I'll talk about in a moment and on pledges that people made to take the Kathmandu declaration forward wherever they were either in their organizations or in their countries or International meetings and so forth and then after the tea break we had a formal closing where we had the number of VIPs and guests from Nepal attend the chief guest was the deputy prime minister of Nepal and the Special guest was the chief secretary of the government of Nepal We also had the chair the secretary of the ministry of science technology We had Dr. Tick Raman the executive director of BCS in Bangladesh Camilla Tullman the head of IID in London and Christiana Figueres the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on climate change They all gave very rousing speeches and everybody finished on a great spirit The Kathmandu declaration was released to the media Basically, what the Kathmandu declaration says is three things. It's the Kathmandu declaration on financing local adaptation So it has three major asks two to the global community one to the national and sub national The two to the global community is firstly to increase the quantum of assistance financial Input that is going into adaptation as opposed to mitigation and secondly of the Finance that is going to adaptation at the global level Our demand is that at least 50% of it should be directed to the most vulnerable at the global level That means the most vulnerable countries like the least developed countries at the national level That means the most vulnerable communities within countries So our third target of advocacy are national governments who are the ones who will decide What to do with the money they get of the money? They generate themselves for adaptation and we are asking them to allocate 50% to the most vulnerable communities To monitor how that is spent and to report how that is spent and we are asking them to emulate the example of Nepal who have decided to Allocate not just 50% but 80% of whatever they receive to the local level to something that they have Done in Nepal a very innovative feature with the LAPA a local adaptation plan of action and the government of Nepal are resourcing them So we're using Nepal as an example. We're hoping that the green climate fund will follow suit We had the chair of the adaptation fund with us for the whole Period of the conference Mamadu Hanadiya from Burkina Faso and they are already practicing many of the things we're asking for So we're asking everybody to have a look at the Kathmandu declaration Take it to heart take it to the appropriate people and demand that Funding for adaptation is increased funding that is available is allocated to the most vulnerable And that at least 50% of adaptation funds go to the most vulnerable countries and people