 Ladies and gentlemen, I now have the privilege to divide for the remarks of Dr. Atik Rehman, Executive Director of the Center for Global Studies, Bikash Foundation. My Honorable Prime Minister, Mr. Shishil Koyal, Honorable Chair, distinguished guests on the podium. Ladies and gentlemen, my friends and many of the faces and people who have been involved in the climate change particularly in the city and movement. On behalf of the organizers, I add my welcome to all of you, and we look forward to a very active and positive victory, and hopefully, with significant outcome of this conference, the eighth in the series of community-based adaptations. Now, to this audience, one doesn't have to reiterate that climate change is already here and now. The Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change in a fifth assessment board of the two working groups have already stated the case of science by categorically that climate change is here and now. The impacts of climate change are already being felt in various parts of the world. Who will face these consequences? Most are the communities themselves, the ecosystems, the enterprises, and the institutions. So our whole economic and ecological system will be is being affected by climate change. One of the built-in tragedies of climate change is that the greatest impact will be on the most vulnerable who happened with the poor, and amongst them, the women and the children and the ages in across the world. This is not to say that the rich will be spared. As we see in the list of events, cyclone, the Hurricane Sandy in USA, the drought in Australia, in California, the most severe cyclone in Philippines, and flood in UK, Germany, Eastern Europe, and many parts of the world. So the days are now here when it doesn't distinguish the rich and the poor. The rich or the industrialized countries and developed album systems have developed certain mechanisms over the period of history to withstand many of these onslaughts. Another tragedy is that climate change is taught in terms of global warming and the Copenhagen summit, as I said, crossing two degrees centigrade by end of the century will be a gross violation of all the system and will create havoc. Unfortunately, the two degrees limit by end of the century probably has been crossed by some other republics of the world, and some are talking about three degrees and 14 degrees. The meaning of that is going to be quite significant. However, the allergy provides the disease to reduce this rapidly by all the countries, particularly led by the industrialists continued with commitment themselves to reduce climate change by reducing the emissions and withdrawing some of the emissions that's already there. This is mitigation. But as a lack of mitigation and increase of emissions continues, the onslaught of adaptation needs will increase and the vulnerability of the poorest will increase. But this group of this community of people, scientists, practitioners, development experts, environmental activists, and above all, people working on the ground to help the poorest, to kick out a good living and include their lot. All those communities who are present here know that climate change impacts are visible in most countries, whether they're Pacific allies, high-end coastal areas, high mountain areas like Nepal or coastal areas or Bangladesh or other countries. In response to that, the community-based adaptation had emerged in the early, about 10 years ago, in 2005. And the first three conferences were held in Bangladesh where it took its first route and the issues discussed in those were conceptualization of CVA and finding the linking of CVA with development and disaster relief action. So this is vital that we understand the link between climate change development and the latter. Subsequently, climate change science, particularly the approach of climate-based adaptation had evolved and partnerships were understood better. In 2009, in the third conference, knowledge and practices of CVA, sectoral approaches and across the world were shared, and a huge amount of information had come that people are already coping. The story is no more, when they shall go, they are already coping under very dire circumstances. In 2009, we looked at the knowledge and practices, and in 2010 and Dar es Salaam Karnia, the CVA practices, across the world, and research and policy guidance were solved. In 2011, in that again, how do we scale up community-based adaptation measures and 2012, in Vietnam, how do we communicate climate change, communication, particularly community-based adaptation, across the world, and in 2013, again, in Bangladesh, again, decided to the world by the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, the issue of mainstreaming, how do we mainstream? And here, we are talking about financing, particularly at the local level. The issue in front of us is, how do we popularize the financials? That makes one of the central issues. As we know, in the process of negotiation, the industrialist countries have committed themselves earlier on, but now has been posted in 2012, 200, 100 billion dollars per year. Sandy Cyclone alone has costed a loss of anything between 60 to 160 billion dollars in the country, which has to matter to the U.S.S. So, the poor across the world are already doing things of paying with their own costs. Nobody else has money, their own money. They are labor, they are tired. The least they can afford. So, there is a need for increasing, rapidly and reaching the funds to the communities as they are. Very often, the international mechanism is intergovernmental, and the funds will flow through the government. It is incumbent of the government, of all government, to reach that finance to the poorest, in the largest amount, and in the rapid rate, in the process of transparency and accountability. Now, those are call orders. However, Nepal has given the leadership, as Jelena said, by committing 80% of all funds to the communities and the poor. Who should like to follow that, or do something towards that. Hence, this is an area for the next few days we'll be discussing the potential sources of funding, how impact are happening and how it can be used, and who would like to give this whole discussion to the level of this cut into declaration which will go forward. With those words, and welcoming everybody again, and thank you to all the good Prime Minister for joining us. I am very pleased to say that this conference has brought together some of the best practitioners, activists from across the world, and we look forward to a very meaningful fighting of activity, starting already in the last level of film business that we had. Thank you very much.