 First, I would like to thank Ricky for inviting me over. Urban Age, the city program of the LSE and the collaboration with the Deutsche Bank are for me and my organization an inspiration to address the problems in my organization in central government, national government in the Netherlands concerning the lack of content-drivenness and the focus on process and short-term result. Possibly ending in total reactivism of politics and bureaucracy. As director of national planning of the Netherlands and responsible for the recently developed long-term strategy for the Randstad, the new planning act, the new national architecture and design strategy and the preparations and spatial research for a possible Dutch Olympic bid. Climate change look like the strange duck. It's a famous Dutch expression, but it's not. The Dutch approach is what I will tell you a little bit about in the next 9 minutes. The Dutch agenda on climate change is of course marked by our physical condition. We are for a larger part almost 50% below sea level and we are very good at being there. The forecast on climate change that the sea level will rise 35 to 85 cm in this century and in the long term for more than 2 m. Higher winter water levels in the rivers, vulnerable to flooding from the Rhine and the Meuse rivers, more space is needed to retain floodwater. In our national spatial strategy, water is one of the structural principles that structureizes our spatial design. Climate change does not change the way of thinking or our approach towards spatial planning because the Dutch are used to incorporating coping with water and water levels in our planning system. Most of the Randstad is situated underneath the sea. In the Randstad, more than 50% of our income is made. More than 50% of our people are living and we all live beneath the sea level. For example, the Dutch government, we never decided to move away to Germany or Belgium for instance. Now we keep on investing in this western part of the Netherlands. But it takes a lot for development. We have to do this properly. It's not considered necessary to relocate. We want to continue to invest. But climate-proof, sustainable Delta puts the Netherlands in an international spotlight in a way. We can teach the world, actually we're doing that, but we forgot to teach ourselves the same. So our engineers are working all over the world, but not as much at home. But it's not only about adaptation, it's also medication. There's a lot of talks about numbers and if they're right or wrong. There's a problem, climate change is a problem in every perspective. Ben Page said yesterday, what is measured gets done. I would add right or wrong message, it gets done anyway. We recognize the urgency and scale of the global climate challenge. That is why we're pursuing a 30% reduction in our greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, relative to 1990. Preferable as part of a European effort. At the moment in Poznan, there's an international climate change conference to get ready for Copenhagen next year. And the Netherlands is pushing to get to a real climate change agreement in Copenhagen. But there's no silver bullet for climate policy combination of measures. We talk about regulation, finance, technology and behavior. These measures should be on a global reduction. And individual cities can take the lead. There are various cities, even in the Netherlands, that have a strong climate policy. There are also various cities in the Netherlands that want to become climate neutral in the near future. And there are possibilities to reduce CO2 emissions through spatial planning. The government is considering various options. One option is to bring together heat-demanding companies and companies that have excess heat. Excess heat can be used by companies that need heat, and heat can also be used by residential areas. Back to planning. The Randstadt Urbanism, actually its core business. We made a long-term strategy for the Randstadt, combining international competitiveness with sustainable and climate change-proof Randstadt. We have high ambitions and want the Randstadt to become one of Europe's top regions. It is more than an urban area. It is urbanism in a green-blue delta. And it is one system. The task for the next decades is to build 500,000 new homes between now and 2014. That means greatly densifying and restructurizing our old and aging living and working locations in the cities and transforming disused sites into new urban areas where the residential and employment function can pursue the goals. Climate change and urbanism is quite a task. Changes to combine tasks with spatial planning and other aims. There are the conditions and implications for city and the development of the Randstadt. Our next step towards climate change and adaptation was to install a delta committee. A national committee that should advise the central government on what to do. And they came up with three big advices. Come up with a delta program, finance it in a delta fund, and fund it in delta law in a delta act. They focused on safety. They focused on adaptation. But they made an advice for the next 100 years. A delta act will anchor the political administrative organization and funding within the president's political system and the current legal framework. It is guaranteed by a delta fund. A delta fund that consists of one until 2 billion euros a year for the next 100 years to make the Netherlands climate-proof. And the political administrative organization of our water safety is based in a group where national, regional and local authorities are combined under chairmanship of the prime minister. The cities can take the lead, and that's what it's about. They can take the initiative. New Amsterdam climate and the Rotterdam climate initiative are actually pursuing the goals to working together with companies, with the harbor to get to this mitigation and adaptation issues. Rotterdam and Amsterdam do change on that. You can see the green line where the goals are set for Rotterdam. And the question to me was if climate change is such a big issue and the financial crisis is too, do we need to reinvent planning for that? For climate change we do not reinvent planning, because we invented planning in the Netherlands towards adaptation in a way. But something has to change. If you have 10 problems and you want to solve them all in one, you create a new one and then you have to solve 11. Integration doesn't make it simpler. You have to look at all those problems, pick your fights, and choose that attract a dose that generates other perspectives. And then add the 11th, because we need this integration, we need to know why. And complexity and bigness are always an excuse to not do, but talk. Talk about process instead of content and acting upon the issues. Everyone should be in charge. The politics trap is to stay in the top level of act and react, forgetting to combine it with think and do. And forgetting their history. Once we have this timeframe when we really know where we came from and where we're going with a long-term strategy on planning with a long-term strategy on climate change, we know how to act today. Our bureaucracy has turned into a process-oriented short-term focused bureaucracy. We're changing this again, and climate change is helping us consider this change. So the Dutch approach is about think, do, and act. We invest a lot in research programs on climate change, on adaptation, and mitigation. We do a lot in projects and pilots, and we try to make the leap from react to act. We have to think, do, and act, and tell our stories. Thank you.