 Morena far now. I'd like to start with a phrase I've googled you. I want you to remember it because it's crucial to this story. Matthew asked me ten minutes ago if Ed's legacy would be happy with what has been happening here in the past few days. And I can assuredly tell you that the answer to that is yes. You asked me if I could try and express something of Edmund Hillary the man. I should stress to you that while I had the enormous privilege of knowing Edmund Hillary the man for four years. I didn't meet him until he was 83. And I met him because I had had a half-assed idea in terms of a change of career and suggested to some very good friends including my brother of some 30 years here, Aniki Goodall, who's the chairman of the Hillary Institute, that we might like to create a legacy internationally for Sir Edmund's remarkable leadership work. And what we meant by that was not just the obvious heroics that he's well known for. Everest, the traverse of the ice. Dan telling us yesterday wonderfully he's about to do the same thing but Dan's going to be traversing the ice with highly sophisticated tech which many of you have had a hand in providing. Ed did it in a tractor. Similarly, there's some rather wonderful photographs if you haven't seen them. Have a look. Ty and I managed to source up to some time thanks to Peter Hillary writes to some of the National Geographic Photography and there are some wonderful photographs from the National Archives in the UK of that one of them is of a tractor hanging over the edge of one of these crevasses. The other thing of course is that the Everest climate itself speaking of technical issues while today relatively commonplace in fact arguably now being exploited. Of course at that time particularly the traverse of the Hillary step which is the last piece of the mountain which juts out was an extraordinary achievement but again Ed would tell you that it was an achievement which was certainly not his alone. It was the product of an extraordinary team effort coordinated by John Hunt who was a remarkable Englishman and of course supported by the Sherpa communities of the region without whom it simply would not have been possible. The point about what we were trying to do however was that for 55 years post those heroic ventures Ed gave his life largely to building capacity in the Nepalese valleys in his way of giving back to the communities who had supported him and as a result there are now generations of doctors and pilots and teachers from that part of the world who would candidly have not had that kind of an opportunity. He built 14 bridges, five hospitals, 23 schools and when I say he built them he built them physically with teams of Kiwis and teams of internationals who were all part of that. So the spirit of this man was far broader than just if you will the extraordinary heroes journey stuff that he is well known for. So our ambition was to try and honor the core driving passion of this man's leadership and our task was to build an organization which could in its turn look for people who would honor that tradition and so we built quite quickly an international board many of whom are in fact still with us. Unique and I did a review last year and were frankly humbled to find that after a decade absent death and we lost Ray Anderson to cancer and Bridget Culliff and the wonderful Belizean feminist leader to cancer they are all still with us. Helen Clark is still the patron. She sent greetings last night to you all. She has of course had a very good weekend in terms of her protege having an assumed power. So we then having established this board and having established a group of exceptional calibre to help us in this search program we set about doing just that. And so the first Laureate was chosen in 2009. I am the founding director of the organization but frankly I'm a glorified scout. What do I do? I come up with a short list of six by the 31st of March every year and I give it to that board and Unique chairs that board and he makes the hard decisions with the board and I step out of the way. And the first remarkable leader was Jeremy Leggett who may be well known to some of you at least. Jeremy of course famous for his work in the solar industry equally famous for having founded carbon tracker stranded assets. He's written four or five books. He's a powerhouse in Europe and of course his dominant driver is climate change. He was followed by my bossy friend here who's now left the building. She's got bored with me already. Oh no she's moved. Oh, hear me. And Peggy and I. Right. Oh dear. Live. Suffice to say I've spent many an energetic day in Shanghai with Peggy and when I say energetic I mean I've been at Crook as some of you may have noticed in the last 24 hours. Believe me if you go spend a day with her in Shanghai you'll be dead. It's utterly exhausting. But rather wonderfully productive and Peggy of course is an enormously gifted bridgehead between the extraordinary opportunity that China represents in terms of the larger challenges we confront. She was followed by Amy Christiansen who runs Sun Valley Institute. Amy was a Beltway girl. She's worked for several presidential administrations in Washington. She's a remarkable convener of gatherings of key influences and has had a very real impact on policy. She's a bit depressed at the moment as you can imagine and it's been a difficult journey. Moving on next in line is the extraordinary Atosha Sultani. For those of you who haven't heard of Atosha she's the founder of Amazon Watch. Basically her story was at the age of 13 she was vaulted from Tehran to Akron, Ohio when the shower was overthrown and she at the age of 19 was called to go to the Amazon and she didn't understand why but once she was there she decided that was what her life was going to be and indeed it has been for the last 30 some years. Atosha was followed in turn by the remarkable, the only, to a kind of taino really in terms of our country close to us in that sense. The former president of Kiribati, Naughty Tong confronted again as many of you may know with the reality of 103,000 population living on Atos which at most have about a decade left. This is not fiction, this is fact. Every two weeks the Tarawa Ato famous site of the battle between the Americans and the Japanese in the Second World War is washed over, it salinates their water, their coconuts, 50% of what they used to be, yadda yadda yadda. Naughty will tell you that his father at 87 spends his time rebuilding the rock wall in front of his Udapath. We're talking about a 4,000-year fuck-up up here. He will die there. Naughty is 67, he will die there. He cannot make and will not make the same promise for his eight children. So in terms of the migration issue which of course is another one of the existential challenges of the age, these islands are in fact the canaries in the cage and we need to get very serious and I'm hopeful that this administration in fact, do you think Roderick, we might even be able to get some movement here in terms of getting serious about how we can support our cousins up in the Pacific. Naughty was followed by Mike Brune. Thank you, Piggy. Yes. Mike is the head of the Sierra Club, executive director of the Sierra Club. Shortly after Trump's election, for the first time in almost a decade, we found our own website under heavy attack. It was under heavy attack from trolling, from people who felt that because we had an association with Mike who was clearly somebody who needed to be trolled badly and was an enemy of the state, they needed to reach out and hit every possible access point of his life. So we had the unusual situation where we had to say, as an institute, we acknowledge second amendment, sorry, the first amendment, but we will not allow unsigned, basically bad shit behavior. And as Mike interestingly however, in terms of the resistance in the US, he's an extraordinary gifted communicator. I've spent time with him in Kentucky in the heartland of the coal economy. With the help of Michael Bloomberg, he has been largely responsible, his organization for shutting down over 300 coal mines in the US in the last decade. But his ability to actually work with those communities around what actually now is crucial, which is workforce transition. Because regardless of what Donald might think, coal ain't coming back. And so the reality there is that Mike, in fact, has seen a decided uptick in support financially for the work of the Sierra Club and membership rising. And as Obama said the other night, when he came out publicly ready for the first time, there is still capacity here to rally, there is still capacity here for hope. Yes, we can. So Mike is at the forefront of that. Then we found ourselves working with a remarkable economist, an Englishman called Tim Jackson, who was responsible for the seminal work, which is basically looking at the issue of limits to growth and prosperity without endless growth. And for those of you who are interested in this kind of thinking, he is a very, very able communicator of this and again has written several key books in this regard. He's based in the UK. And then quickly moving on here, our current laureate, as you heard yesterday, who we will be bringing to this gathering in April is the extraordinary Swede Johann Rockström, who is the guy who invented the planetary boundaries idea. He is also in terms of Peggy's work, an advisory chairman to the EAT Forum internationally. He is an extraordinarily gifted communicator, but he's thrown us a challenge in terms of the year that we work with these laureates. And the challenge is he wants to write the seminal work called the best story in town. And speaking up, I've Googled you, he doesn't want it to be, in technical terms, anything other than an old paperback, which you can shove in your back pocket and buy for $9.99. And he wants to sell at least 10 million copies of it. So his challenge is firstly the best story in town. It better be damn good. There's a few other books which claim that, notably the Bible and the Koran and his level. But what Johann's trying to say is that we're living in an extraordinary time in the sense of the challenges we face, and let's not underestimate those, of course. But also it's like a renaissance time, that we have an enormous capacity because of the unique nature of this age to really create the future that we would like to see if we're prepared to get serious about that and do the work. So yes, by the time he gets here, just as Charleston did last year, we're hoping that we'll hear from Johann something of the book. He's wanting the visit with us to be part of that process, and it will be published for Christmas in 2018. So coming all the way back, to finish, the I've Googled you link is that when I first met Ed and Anaki and David Cagan and Chris Dorgan, the others had encouraged me that it was probably a good idea. I talked to the man having hatched this idea. I was terrified. The first thing I had to do was get past his shield, and his shield was a woman who was legendary in Auckland at the time. She was known as the Rock Viola, and she ran an organisation which celebrated Kiwis who were outstanding public figures, and she provided opportunities for them to reach out and speak, and Ed was one of her clients. So before I could even get to Ed, I had to get past Deborah, and Deborah, speaking of cancer, was in fact dying of cancer, and she'd been given three months to live. And so she wasn't in a good state, and I wasn't in a good state, but she couldn't be less like a Rock Viola. She was absolutely delighted and very generous, and within a week I found myself meeting Ed and June, and June Mayhew, who's Ed's second wife, of course, Ed's great friend Peter Mayhew, who tragically died on the Erebus crash. June and Ed got together some years after that, and she's also a terrifying figure. So June and Ed, I walked into their home in Remueira, and Ed strode across the room, and he said, I've googled you, and this was coming from an 83-year-old, and as you can tell, I'm not usually stumped for words, but I was stumped, and he'd had one pager only in prep. So before I could say anything else, he said, where are we going to do this? Not should we do it. Where? And I said, well, it's international, focused Ed and, you know, Helen's involved, and all these good folks are going to put their hands up. And he said, well, we need to do it inside of the Maunga. And the Maunga, of course, that he was talking about was Al Raki, where he had spent his youth cook in the South Island, claiming training. And so the New Zealand trustees, the International Board being one layer of this, the New Zealand trustees were based in Christchurch as an outcome. But the joy of working with Ed thereafter was that the only condition he put on it was that we didn't start until we were ready. And he then, basically, we raised an initial capital loan fund of two and a half million. We were ready in that sense, and we were ready to get the journey underway. And he said, well, we're going to launch it. I'm going to the ice for the last time. We're going to launch it on the 22nd of January. And I said, that's my 50th birthday. And he looked at me as I was confusing him with somebody who gave it to him. And that's exactly what he did. And I spent the entirety of my 50th birthday on the phone, building media calls. But that was not the burden that then befell us, sadly, because the following year, on my 51st birthday, we attended his wake. So he was literally only with us for a three year period. But it was an enormously enriching, personally, and very generous exchange, working with this quite remarkable man. And Simon, his life, when he knew he was failing, but still had this enormous generosity of spirit and vision to reach out and say, yeah, let's do this. And also, let's do this as a global citizen. Ed saw himself absolutely as Kiwi fundamentally, but he also saw himself. And of course, in his daily practice, he was absolutely a global citizen. So to finish, Matthew, what we have here, he would be very happy.