 Well Ben very kindly said I was a grandfather of CGFI. I thought, that means I'm getting a bit older. But it also means that you can look after CGFI for a day and then hand it back. So that felt pretty good too. I'm about to introduce Ian Williams and it's a particular pleasure to introduce Ian. I was lucky enough for eight years to sit on the Council of the Natural Environmental Research Council, NERC, to sort of try and help to provide a bit of a bridge between environmental science and the city and finance. It was a true joy when a few years later a NERC, along with UKRI, became the key driver really and supporter of the CERAF programme of which CGFI is part. So, great to welcome Ian Williams, strategic partner director at NERC. Ian. Good morning, everybody. It's great to be here. Thank you, Rowan, and very exciting to be here at the start of this second conference for CGFI. So, for those of you who were perhaps less familiar with UKRI, just a very brief introduction, we are the largest public sector funder of research, innovation and skills. We invest over £8 billion a year in that sector. Of course, part of that and very important part of that is our contribution to the net zero agenda, or as we often call it the net zero plus agenda. In this context, a plus refers to biodiversity, essentially, and the broader environmental context. A recent look across UKRI's portfolio, we estimate around £800 million of investment in research, innovation and skills is made to support the net zero plus agenda. This includes, most recently, a cross UKRI programme, which we call Building a Green Future, which is a £75 million programme that cuts across all the research councils in the UK within UKRI to do just that, to build a green future. As I talk for the next few minutes, we'll talk more about UKRI working together across its research councils, because as you'll be aware, no one individual research council, no one specific scientific domain can resolve the big challenges that we face in green finance, but more generally across the environmental sector. Just a quick word about NERC, Natural Environment Research Council, we study the whole globe. That means, from the top of the atmosphere, right down to the depth of the earth, the oceans, underneath the oceans, literally from pole to pole, and the land surface as well. Also, that is done through our six centres on the left-hand side of the slide. Some of those have been collecting data in various guises around the world and about the world for over 100 years. We know a lot about the world. We have a lot of data about the globe, which I'll refer to later, and what's important is how we make use of those data, as others have referred to. As Rowan said, about three years ago we started looking deeply, if you like, at developing a green finance portfolio, and that started off with what we referred to as the SERF programme at the centre for greening finance and investment. It was a £10 million investment that NERC made with Innovate UK to enable us to grow the green finance sector, to work on collaborating together with the data, but also collaborating with the finance industry as well. Since then, this portfolio has grown a little bit further. The greatest investment is the £17 million investment, integrating finance and biodiversity, to put the biodiversity question into the heart of finance as well. That is also jointly with Innovate UK. We also have an economics of biodiversity programme, jointly with the Economics and Social Research Council, and a newer programme called Renew, based at the University of Exeter, which is part of our change in the environment programme. We've seen a growing number of investments made by NERC, usually in collaboration with other research councils, to develop our green finance portfolio. Just to dig a little bit deeper for a few moments into the data and analytics, as others have already mentioned this morning. Last year, about 12 months ago, NERC launched its first digital strategy. In our context, digital strategy refers to everything from how we collect the data out in the field, using various technologies and platforms, all the way through to how that data is stewarded, looked after, curated, through to the analysis, making those data available, and then through use to enable, digitally enable decisions. Whenever I talk or come to a green finance meeting, the data is critical, and I've spent a lot of time talking about it. The stars on that cycle of our strategy is really where a lot of the green finance work sits, on the left-hand side, the use of the data, if you like. We NERC hosts environmental data service, which comprises of five different data centres, covering the main domains of the globe. You can see them here, I won't read them out. But as I said, we have a lot of data about the globe, over 30 petabytes of data, collectively across the environmental data service. The first three of these on the top, the earth atmosphere and the solar, terrestrial and freshwater, and oceanography and marine, to use those data centres, you have to register, so we know how many people are using those data. And alone, just those three have over 200,000 users. Interestingly, and very positively from my perspective, is more than half of those registered users are not from academia. So just under half are from academia, researchers, but more than half are from other sectors, which is really a good indicator that people are really using this data for all sorts of reasons. But data in itself is great, but it isn't going to get us too far. My final slide is about how we work very hard to put this data into context, to make it usable, accessible and available for all sorts of uses, but as we referred to earlier, particularly around the green finance agenda today. So we have the data service, but we put that into context. We have the Jasmine compute facility at the bottom right of the slide. This enables these very, very large data holdings to be able to be analysed essentially located next to high-performance computing facilities. It's really important when handling the large quantities of data that the environmental science community uses. We also have the Data Solutions Hub, led out of the University of Manchester, which is aiming to support the user interface, if you like, of our data, to enable the data to be more accessible and to be more easily findable, but also to help with the integration of our environmental data with other domains. That's very important. We spent a lot of time talking, for example, with the health domain. How can we link health data with environmental data? A very important component. We see this as a wider context, as an ecosystem, if you like, to support and enable the use of the vast amounts of data about the globe that we have. It's fantastic that we'll be hearing about some of that later today. I will leave it there for the moment. First of all, we stand by ready to support, particularly across the research councils, to support the Green Finance agenda. The interdisciplinarity of this work is really important. Secondly, we really want to work with you around how we can use our data, make our data more available and convert our data to information that is enabled to be used for decision-making in a whole range of industry contexts. Thank you very much. Ian, thank you so much. Please give our thoughts out to Duncan and the wider team for both the financial data and wider programme support that NERC gives.