 Wel ydych chi'n gweithio, Corena, a dyma am fewn i fod y tîm bod, fod tynnu unrhyw o'r Corena i ymwneud ar y cwrtig, fewn ei fydda i fan ar gyfer Llywodraeth Yngrifreddymaeth Cymru. Pwysig yw dych chi gwybod i ddiweddwyd, ac y cwrdd fawr yn rhan fydd yn rhan sy'n gweithio eich rhan i ddweudio cwrdd o'i ddweud i rywun Hanf natuurlijk fel hyn yr ymwneud, felly mae'n ddweud iawn i dtwng mwyaf ar yr cwrddig. I was asked to say a few introductory words going into this development day. I've been coming to these since 2015, where many people in the room have been coming for much longer, particularly Celine, kicked this up many years ago. So, from my perspective, a few thoughts about why this community is special, and also what's changed since 2015, and I think that's summarised by this incredible banner here, and the theme of the climate emergency. So, what's special about this community, from my point of view, I've seen an immense commitment to climate justice, to taking action that provides material support, to build the resilience of the poorest people, and most vulnerable communities in the world, but also to enable them to take action as well on the mitigation part, and to be actors in confronting the climate emergency, as well as build resilience. It's a community largely of practitioners, but also the links to social movements, and it's about doing stuff on the ground, so it makes a difference in the most vulnerable communities, the communities at the front line of climate impacts. But it can also have an influence in the bigger negotiations. We've seen that many times through many agendas. So, it's kind of unique in that sense. Now, given these unique characteristics, what has changed since 2015? Well, I think in 2015 we were pretty optimistic, maybe on a bit of a high. I think if any of us had been told at that point that global greenhouse gas emissions would be 4% higher than they were then, we'd have been pretty impressed and pretty shocked. And of course, as that stop builds up, the ask to deal with it to hit 1.5 gets steeper. This fantastic artwork gives the carbon budget figures, which are now less than 10 years at current rates of emissions, to hit 1.5. And the recent UNEP emissions cap report gives the figure that global emissions have to drop by 7% per annum to give a fighting chance of hitting 1.5. Which we're in countries, of course, it's probably twice that, and it is an incredibly steep ask. The signals in the natural world, particularly perhaps for the icy and sea green land and Antarctica, but also the Arctic ice, are alarming. Show logical worst situation, I think, than scientists were expecting many years ago. So there's that element too. Climate finance still isn't doing the job it needs to do for the poorest countries and the poorest people, both in terms of value, but also in terms of how effective it is at providing meaningful support to the communities at the front line. In short, this adds up to the climate emergency, which I think is the summary of this banner. We shouldn't feel, I think, that the efforts in the Cops and events like this have failed or are futile. I think it's up that made a material difference in many ways. One way I would pick out is the Paris 1.5 degree target. The least of our countries played a huge role in getting that onto the Paris agenda. It was a much closer thing, and we'll probably remember that, that it came through. With that 1.5 degree target, we would have had the OBCC special report on 1.5, and I think if you look at social movements, that really supercharged them. It was critical that that was done. So it kind of supercharged the street level movements. The school strikes had started before. Extinction in the UK was just starting. The summer has moved into the US and started before. Many other global movements, but the 1.5 degree report has provided that global narrative. So that was a key thing that came out. In the end, it will be shifting the politics that makes a difference. If we're to get on track, we need to see government shift, we need to see the politics of climate change shift, and there are signs of that happening in some key countries. Some of the stuff in the US on the one side of the political spectrum about the Green New Deal genuinely can match the scale of the challenge. We're seeing similar things in the UK election happening later this week from some of the major political actors, and I think perhaps most strikingly the recent law in Denmark which provides a much stronger legal framework for urgent litigation that we've seen before. So for this community, what does being in climate emergency mean for us? For this community, how can we contribute? So let me just start with you starting thoughts to sort of guide some of the thinking here as a contribution. One question is how we can contribute to recognising the need for transformation of speed, which is one of the themes of this event on all fronts for mitigation and adaptation, for building resilience and also for climate finance. Does this phrase, winning slowly as the time is losing, we are starting to win in many areas, but we're not winning first enough, so it's that question that's been in this critical. How can we contribute also to getting serious, more serious about climate justice? That's a question of finance reaching the communities at the frontline dealing with the worst damages. It's also a question of starting to give meaningful shame forward to loss of damage to this critical element of the Paris Agreement that's been a struggle to get to a material point that we need to take forward. How can we contribute also to an enhanced ability to deal with the worst, to deal with extreme events which in some cases will get more frequent, but in most cases will get more serious, whether it's droughts, floods, cyclones, wildfires. There is that question of urgency there about improving our capacity for resilience in those events. How can we contribute also to making the realities of the climate crisis as it impacts the most vulnerable people in the world and the communities at the frontline in the poorest countries? How can we contribute to making that visible on a global scale? And finally, the most important thing involved is probably the shifting of the politics. This is a practitioner forum rather than sort of fundamentally an advocacy forum. But what can we do also to help build that momentum in the social movements on the streets, which in the end is the thing that will shift the politics and the Paris Agreement with its bottom-up structure I think we always recognise that. So it's not about trying to do everything ourselves but it's about thinking what does this change situation mean for developing climate days? How can we reflect the climate emergency in that thinking? And a final thought, which is that next year when we come 26 in Glasgow in the UK, obviously critical to have raised our mission in the New York after MDCs, obviously we're not yet there yet in terms of what that looks like and the way which Hamilton is shaping up for that particular G20. But there's a question I think again this year being for it, how can it best make its best contribution to meeting the challenge of COP26? Also something we can reflect on through the day. So thank you very much for hugely looking forward to the discussions here and again a final word of huge thanks to the organisers for doing such a incredible job of reorienting us to be able to help development climate days in Madrid for COP25. Thank you.