 WIPO launched in November 2013 a new online marketplace connecting a wide variety of groups seeking shared innovation and environmentally friendly technologies to address climate change. The idea with WIPO Green, first and foremost, is to create a technology exchange for environmentally sustainable technologies that leverages that enormous power of the internet to create a global marketplace. There are a range of roadblocks to successful innovation and diffusion of green technologies. Entrepreneurs and inventors may lack the expertise and know-how to ensure their innovations can reach as wide a market as possible. Funding can be difficult to find despite the increased resources that have been made available by the international community in recent years, and people on the ground may not be aware of the many and varied new technologies entering onto the market even if they have a specific need for them. The WIPO Green database and network matches owners of new technologies with individuals or companies seeking to commercialize, license, or otherwise distribute a green technology to accelerate innovation and diffusion of green technologies. This interactive marketplace connects technology and service providers around the world with those seeking innovative solutions to address these problems. WIPO Green's objective is to become a go-to platform for green technologies. Since its launch, the number of uploads and participants are rapidly growing, with partners pleased with the initiative's potential and achievements. WIPO Green means a lot to us because right now it's helping us to broaden our scope to different regions in terms of technology traffic and also help us to broaden our markets with a low transaction cost. We're hoping and we're also anticipating because currently there's a huge demand for bamboo but that we can't even meet our demand. People should really get involved and especially involve with WIPO Green because there is a lot of opportunity and a lot of prospects that will really help them to broaden their scope and also engage in those industries in the green economy. I think the greatest strength and opportunity for us within WIPO Green is access to a network of global players. The technology that we've developed has global application but we don't have the resources to take it globally ourselves. The WIPO Green network will give us access both to business partners, potential licensees and also potential funders to help scale our innovation globally. We hope that will accelerate green-based tech startups to access other markets, clients and maybe adjust technological needs. So provided that we can do that, WIPO Green will be a certain platform that is different from other platforms that will really help with the transactional process as well. WIPO Green is the one that we can present our technology in a possibly to be disseminated around the world and this will be a very powerful tool to challenge the climate changes in the world. China and India are on the forefront of energy seeking. They're also largest engages in agriculture globally and our needs for healthcare are so many. Typically, green technologies have very large application in these areas so I think Indian companies are excellent innovators, there's entrepreneurship there but if we can create these platforms I think they can take these technologies forward, apply it in local context and bring out some substantially relevant products for rural communities there. What you're going to have here is a tool where people can find the technologies they need to make a difference for their business, their environment as well as their local economy. I think it's the focus of WIPO Green that gives it its edge that will give it the opportunity for people to say I'm looking for a sustainable technology I'm going to go to WIPO Green. I would absolutely encourage them to join WIPO Green and they should be using WIPO Green not only to launch their new technologies but as a check against how their existing technologies can be brought to new markets around the world. WIPO is the perfect place for WIPO Green to be hosted because it is an opportunity to bring an international perspective to a truly global marketplace and that's what is the benefit that WIPO can bring to this initiative. The WIPO Green is a big opportunity. I think it's a wonderful opportunity not only to transfer in Brazil but to share with other countries and in benefit of the society. I think the message is climate change and issues of sustainability are here. We cannot run away from them. We've got to be developing technologies and intellectual property that address these issues and where we do have technologies and IP that we're not using. Let's perhaps expose that and let's promote and facilitate technology transfer to those that actually need it in a way that makes sense.