 Och välkomna, Vardy. I'm I'm Bonets. I'm Deputy Director General here at Sida headquarters. I want to welcome all of you to today's conference on aid and our changing environment. I'm very pleased to see all guests. Many of you have traveled long to contribute to today's program. And this meeting brings together leading experts. As we saw development professionals from ministries and donor agencies, parliamentarians, policy makers. From our partner countries. Civil Society, researchers and students. We are here to listen and discuss what makes aid work or maybe not work and how aid may contribute to sustainable development. You are all very welcome. Sida is happy to cohost this conference with our partner, ju en ju wider. The word institute for development, economic research and institute institution of the United Nations University and also Danila. And I think Sida has supported ju en ju wider for a number of years. Recently intensifying our collaboration within the frame of the recon program. And today we will discuss said what research has to say about how aid works. What has been successful in aid so far in coping with environmental problems and climate change and what could be the role of aid when tackling environmental. Challenges in the future. And how can we as development actors use research results in order to optimize impact and reduce power in the long run. We realize that these challenges are huge and fundamental. And we know that in order to reduce power to and sustain decent living conditions. We need to act in global partnerships and in a consorted way. These global partnerships. Must build on integrated knowledge and inclusive action. As a government agency. As experts in development cooperation. We at Sida needs to build on the best existing knowledge and in order to optimize our operations. We need to be in close dialogue with the research community. Both in Sweden and internationally and furthermore as the main implementing agency of Swedish Development Corporation. We have a special responsibility to bridge the science policy gap and facilitate communications of research results regarding to other stakeholders. It's our hope that the meeting today will be an occasion for all of you to share and discuss research results. And reflect on future directions for aid within the field of environment and climate changes. The research that will be presented today has been developed in the recon program coordinated by you and you wider. With support from the Swedish and Danish government through Sida and Danila and recon fokusis on what has worked in development cooperation. What could be scaled up and what is transferable across. Countries. The recon program addresses five themes that cover key issues in international development assistance. The themes reflect priority areas of the Danish and Swedish governments. It's growth and employment governance and fragility. Gender equality social sectors environment and climate change. And within each team a number of status are being produced and the research findings are summarized in position papers from Recon for each team. And I highly recommend you to visit the Recon homepage. I been there where all these studies and position papers are available. We have invested in Recon to find out what works in development cooperation. So please use the results. Today's meeting is the fifth in a series of seven open invitation meetings in which Recon research is presented and discussed with stakeholders. In the first part today of this meeting starting now ending at two o'clock existing research will be presented and use new research on the role of aid and relation to environment and challenge and climate change. In the second part starting at two o'clock. You and you why there will present the synthesis of research concerning aid and its relation to environmental change. And we look also forward to the panel discussion on politics policies and priorities in aid in relation to environmental change. With these words I would like to once again welcome all of you and all guests and participants and I would like to give the floor to our cohost professor Fintharp director at you and you wider. Thank you very much. I would like to add my words of welcome to those of Bo. It's a great pleasure to be here today. We've been looking forward to this event. It is an important event in the Recon program. Så I thought I should say a couple of words about Recon. I would try not to repeat what has been said. But the starting point for institution such as you and you wider and for the Recon program at large. And I should say that you and you wider means what. Well it's the United Nations University and then the World Institute for Development Economic Research. This abbreviation you and you is sometimes not quite well known. But now you know. But our starting point is that it is really very diverse and very complex. So this idea that any single individual can sort of have it all in the head is just not the right point of departure. When you look to the international debate about these issues you often see individuals who stand up and say that they know everything about it. You have the Dambisa Moyers. You have the east of these etc etc. Our starting point is a different one. Our starting point is that well in order to really come to grips with for an aid and in this case environment and climate change. Well you have to try to bring together a large global network of informed people from different perspectives. And that's what we've been trying to do. So we have been bringing together the UNU wider global network. We have partnered with institutions such as the Danish Institute for International Studies and we have really tried to be as open minded as we possibly can in bringing people together. And as an overall result of all of this there will be about 225 studies that will be available at the end of this year. And as Paul rightly said we will make a number of so-called position papers which will try to draw out to synthesize what it is that we can say. Paul has already mentioned the four key questions. He has already mentioned the five thematic areas. And let me just add why are we engaged in this. Why are we doing this program. Well our point of departure is the development job is very far from done. We still have about 1.3 billion people out there who are living as absolutely poor. We know that poor farmers have for many many years and still today are facing every day in their lives environmental challenges. You are seeing how they as I sometimes say walk with their feet in water regularly and they see their houses being flushed away and so on. So these issues these problems these challenges are still out there. And then on top comes climate change. We know that the global temperature is on the rise and there is a whole range of other issues that comes as a consequence. So we need to develop. We need to mitigate and we need to adapt. And as far as we can see it it becomes relevant to ask the question. Well how can aid help. How has aid help and what can we learn. How can we help provide a better evidence base for policymaking in this area just for the record. I prepared a couple of slides where I've sort of tried to outline the questions that we are going to raise today but I just hear concentrating on the first one. What works what does not work and what could work in foreign aid in the pursuit of a sustainable human development agenda characterized by global environmental change and the need for planetary stewardship. I would suggest that we try to keep this question this focus in mind throughout the day because that's the overall question that we are trying to address. Welcome and it is my pleasure now to hand over to Sharon Joma who will basically take us through the day and Sharon in her kind but firm way will lead us the whole way through part one through part two and to the conclusion at four o'clock. Welcome Sharon. Thank you. Let's do it.