 My name is Salim al-Haq. I am a senior fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development and also director of the International Center for Climate Change and Development based at the Independent University Bangladesh. And I'm going to talk a little bit about the upcoming eighth international conference on community-based adaptation that's going to be held in Nepal from the 24th to the 30th of April. It's a seven-day-long event in which the first three days people will be going out to the field in batches of about 20 to 25 and spending two nights and three days hosted by a local community looking at what they're doing to adapt to their conditions, particularly the vulnerability to climate change, issues related to their adaptation activities. And then everybody will come to Nepal to Kathmandu to the capital where we will have another four days of sharing and discussions. The theme for this conference is on financing local adaptation. And we have chosen Nepal for a particularly relevant reason, which is that in Nepal, the government of Nepal has decided at the policy level to allocate 80 percent of the global funds that they receive for adaptation to climate change to the local level. And they have developed a very innovative local adaptation plan. It's called the LAPA, or Local Adaptation Plan of Action, that they implement at the very local level through the panchayats, which are the smallest units at the local level. So we want to highlight that practice and share it with the rest of the world. We're expecting roughly 300 people from all over the world. We have some very important dignitaries coming. The conference itself on the morning of the 27th will be open by the Prime Minister of Nepal. It will be addressed by the chair of the Green Climate Fund, Governor Salseda from Philippines, as well as the chair of the Adaptation Fund under the Framework Convention, Mamadu Hunadia from Burkina Faso. We also have senior representatives from private sector finance, the Munich Refinance, the Rockefeller Foundation. And on the closing day, on the 30th of April, we will have the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Ms. Cristiana Figueres, there as well. So we are also hoping to bring out this time, on the 30th of April morning, a Kathmandu Declaration on Finance and Local Adaptation. And we are already in the process of drafting that declaration, which we will discuss during the conference and finalize on the last day and release. One final point for those of you who may be interested in following it. From the 27th onwards, we will have some live webcasting of the opening session on the 27th and the closing session on the 30th. I will be doing a daily video log of log on the proceedings of each day. We will be interviewing some of the participants and video logging them and uploading them on the website. So quite a lot of material will be made available on the website. We're going to be using social media and Twitter. The Twitter tag is hashtag CBA8. And we encourage all of you to register as VIPs, which in this case stands for Virtual Interactive Participants. You can register online at www.CBA8.org. And I hope you will register and follow the event in real time.