 The purpose of the SEI Science Forum is to bring together SEI researchers from all over the world and share our knowledge and experience internally. In fact, this was the main reason we set it up in the first place. But when we did that the first year, it was such a tremendous success and it generated so much interest that we decided that this is actually a conference that should be of interest to a lot of other people as well. The purpose is both that internal one as well as sort of display and broadcast to the world our insights and knowledge about sustainable development around the world. Well, we've gathered here today, over the two days, about 80-90 researchers to explore issues of climate change and biodiversity and economic growth and development, which are key topics that SEI address. It's a fantastic opportunity to share all that knowledge between SEI researchers really and a good opportunity. SEI is like a goldmine of knowledge and also policies. And I think this combination of solid scientific facts, knowledge, good international reputation and also therefore a good notion of what is happening around the world in combination with good examples of policies carried out in other countries or proposals for policies or best available technologies. Now you go about the things. There are a number of reasons why we organized the SEI Science Forum. One is of course to be as a stock taking opportunity where we can really display our research. We can have interaction with key partners but also within the organization, learn from each other, listen to each other and see opportunities also for collaboration between different parts of the organization and different areas of research. But it's also a place where we can generate new ideas and seek different ways of collaboration between different centers but also different research areas. So it's both stock taking and looking forward. This combination of research, international knowledge and policy making is extremely important and I think that is why more and more government authorities in Sweden use SEI in the background work but also in the policy making. I think SEI has a very important role to play, particularly working with the developing world and showing to the leaders in the developing world that their economies can grow, their standards of living can improve and it does not have to be the same way that it has happened historically. But the very good news and I think that's what SEI can convey is that it's possible. It doesn't mean that the rest of humanity cannot reach these high standards of living. It just means we have to be clever, creative and do it in a different fashion.