 I'm Andrew Gordon, I'm the director of IAEA, and I'm really delighted to be welcoming you all to this conference, this event, towards an inclusive blue economy. We believe that in the moment, ocean ecosystems are under huge threat from pollution, from habitat destruction, overfishing and climate change, of course. We know that a billion people worldwide rely on fish as the main or only source of protein, and more than 300 billion depend on small-scale fisheries, in particular, for all or some of their land uses. It's a vastly important area, and one that hasn't been in the forefront of development thinking for much of my career. We urgently need policies and legal frameworks at the local, national and global levels to secure the long-term health of these precious ecosystems, but also to ensure inclusiveness in the way they're managed and the access to benefits from the oceans. We do have some positive momentum at the moment, particularly in terms of the increasing consciousness of public to worldwide. The ocean plastics issue is huge in the UK, as I'm sure most of you know, and it almost acts like a kind of gateway drug to consciousness about the health of ocean ecosystems. Huge mobilisation there that wasn't there a couple of years ago. Of course, that has brought with it more focus on policy dimensions, more focus on science in the media. We have this unique moment also in the international process to develop a legally binding instrument, an international legal binding instrument for the governance of biodiversity or host seas. Oceans and the blue economy will be a major feature of IID's work for the next five years. We're just developing a strategy for the next five years at the moment and thinking hard about how to take up forward as best we can in terms of particular strengths and connections and networks and knowledge. We can bring in and focusing in particular, as you will have seen in the agenda, on both a sense of the urgency of conserving these precious ecosystems for the long-term benefit of all humanity, but also how they can best be managed in such a way that the people that depend on them for livelihoods will be doing their own poorest and most vulnerable in the world. That that audience and that interests are also going to take. So we're doing four things. We're supporting a range of countries that are sort of clustered around the least developed countries in the negotiations for the BBNJ process by the BIPL jurisdiction. Again, looking for ways of finding out, I think the tagline that we've used is how half of the planet can be governed for the benefit of all the lots of people. So again, a strong focus on inclusion as well as sustainability. We'll also be seeking to improve or help to improve understanding of the economic and social values of small-scale fisheries. Informal production in general is often underestimated in the way countries manage and plan their economies. And there are some real dangers when the significance of small-scale fisheries for nutrition and also for ecosystem services and also for livelihoods is not properly recognised. At the national level, we'll be looking to engage planners, policy makers in looking at the ways in which fiscal reforms, expenditure and taxation can be managed to ensure inclusive and sustainable outcomes in the economy. And finally, we will also be looking at how we can best understand how to monitor SDG-14, life-givar orders. What does monitoring and evaluation and learning for SDG-14, what should that look like? All of this work will be done by our oceans team led by Esam Mohamed. Esam, could you just, I'm sure many of you know Esam. So a huge thanks to Esam for driving this work programme so effective for us. And one of the things we really hope to do is to start the right conversations to help us make the progress we need to make. Conversations between policy makers, communities whose livelihoods are at stake, political actors, scientists, business and others who can make a difference, whether it's publics, worldwide or even consumers. So we're delighted to have you all here to start those conversations and many thanks to all of you for being here. I also want to thank the Swedish government for the support they've given us in starting up this work programme, which is deeply appreciated. And I'm delighted that we have a recorded keynote from Isabella Lovin, the Minister for Environment and Climate and Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden, which is coming later in this morning's session. So I really think it's a moment, if you like, a moment of opportunity, as well as a moment of threat and danger. There's a lot of focus, it's a unique moment where we can try and harness the energy, both in public consciousness and in global policy and in national policy, to make the progress we need to make. That's all I want to say at this point, so I'm going to hand over now to our facilitator, Gillian Martin.