 Kiora. My name is Mark and I'm honored to be part of the second cohort of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship and really to draw from Sir Ed's inspirational life and a commitment to service. It's been an interesting journey. I first came to New Zealand over a year and a half ago and traveled over 4,000 kilometers from Russell in the north to Teanu in Milford Sound and elsewhere in the south. It was an incredible experience and it made me want to come back and be in New Zealand. This was before the Edmund Hillary Fellowship was announced and so when I heard about it I knew I had to apply and try to join this terrific community. This time we've spent together this week, getting to know each other in the welcome week for the second cohort has been very meaningful and very exciting about what comes next. I was really drawn to EHF and what it tries to do in terms of its incubation nation to sort of inspire innovation and to draw on the amazing sort of natural beauty and entrepreneurial spirit here in New Zealand. Now I have a vision of really focusing on climate resilience collaboration made easy. Now the made easy part is really the key because if something's not easy it might be hard, it might still be worth doing but you're not going to get everybody to do it. So with that in mind I've really focused on thinking about different solutions and drawing on my past experience. The idea of making this challenge easy, it really draws by 20 years of work in this space as a social entrepreneur including the last 13 years leading a US based nonprofit organization I founded, the Sustainable Endowments Institute. What we've tried to do is really break down and sort of try to tackle the challenge of looking at how institutions want to aspire towards reaching sustainability goals and sort of the reality of where they are and where they're going. 11 years ago my organization created the first green report card of its type to evaluate and grade universities across North America on their sustainability practices. We looked at over 300 institutions across that region and what we found was there was some good work happening but there was a pretty large disparity between the goals and the opportunities that existed and the actions that these institutions were taking. But over the course of five years that we did five editions of this report card terrific things happened and among other things more than three times the number of institutions committed to carbon neutrality at the university level and what we then saw was now that these commitments existed like here in New Zealand with the 2050 goal. It was a matter of taking the commitment turning into action and sort of two of the areas where there was the most need and opportunity was around looking at the finance side and figuring out better models for getting capital to flow into the space and also on the data side. Data can help drive action but everyone when we looked around was still using spreadsheets. Spreadsheets, spreadsheets, more spreadsheets to track all of this information and not sharing it in a collaborative way. And so where we are today is we really wanted to make a difference in helping New Zealand and engaging with the community here to do more around this. So my project for the Edmund Hillary Fellowship is called the Sustainable Impact Hub. And very simply the idea behind the Sustainable Impact Hub is to help New Zealand businesses and organizations get easy access to capital. Again made easy, right? Get easy access to capital and to find the best contractors to actually do the work because not everyone knows how to install new lighting systems or new heating and cooling systems or how to weatherize their own buildings. And so the idea behind the Sustainable Impact Hub is to really to connect these dots to make it so that those that do have capital, banks, philanthropies, individuals can actually invest in your own communities and get a good rate of return at the same time. And also on the contractor side the existing contractors can get more projects, can create more jobs and help out in the local community improving the quality of the life and quality of the building stock in these places. So there's a tremendous, a tremendous opportunity here. The Sustainable Impact Hub technology is based on an existing GRITS web platform that my nonprofit launched four years ago. It's currently in use by over 400 institutions across New Zealand, Australia, the US and Canada. The great news is, is that about 75% of the technology needed to build and launch the Sustainable Impact Hub, we've already built and is in use as part of the GRITS platform. So we're already three-quarters of the way there and we're just getting started. And so really what though what it comes down to is, there's a lot of advantage here but really what it comes down to is, is the, is the people and focusing on how we can sort of empower everyone to get involved in this. And so my, my colleague and cohort one friend Rod Orham and I are leading a session this afternoon on this question of you know how do we reach this net carbon zero goal by 2050. And so if you're interested in this, I would encourage you to, to join this afternoon in the conversation and get involved. There's a tremendous amount of opportunity and there's a lot still to learn but I'm really honored and excited to be part of this community. Kia ora.