 When we talk about the Asia Pacific region, I'm not going to talk about a country because I'm not going to speak about France here I'm not going to speak about my wife's country in Indonesia because many people know better But if you talk of the Asia Pacific region, this is not a region for where average means many It's a region of superlatives and in a region of many contrasts You have the highest mountain peaks in the Asia Pacific region But you also have some of the country that are less than five meter above sea level You have three of the most populated country of the world and you have the smallest country with new way Which is 1,600 people which is about the number of participants in this in this meeting You have a lot of rainforest But the 26 person average Ranch from 17 percent in Southeast Asia to 60 or 75 percent in Brunei or Papua Noghine At the same time and although rainforest are very important as the Pacific region is home to very very endangered, threatened and Ultimately important dry forests and and one of the the main organizer of this this conference Australia is the driest continental nurse, so they do have a lot of rent of dry forests All these countries all these people with all their difference I think are all going together for one reason because forests matter and Forest matter for C4 C4 is a center for international forest research Have been created in 1993. It's headquartered in Indonesia in Bogor and our aim since we have been created in 1993 as early about breaking the old conception about forestry and expanding forestry beyond what is considered as classical in our world and That's why we we have considered element like what are the underlying causes of the forestation We are involved in the first system for certification of forestry developing Caterin indicator in 2016 we developed a new strategy Because we thought that following the 2015 Paris agenda and 2015 declaration of the sustainable development goal We had to add up our strategy and show that forest and forestry would contribute to the 17 SDGs and not simply the CSDG 15 life on land and from that We have continued working And we developed the largest Integrated research program on forestry's and agro forestry with partner for mecraft and another international and national organization And our purpose is to make sure and to ensure that forest and forestry contribute to the sustainable development goal as they should and That they improve the livelihood of local people. They improve the economic Returns of forest, but at the same time protects diversity and the environment. I Could speak for hours about forest and forestry. I mean I've been involved with that for more than 37 years now but in terms of the Maybe some entry points where people don't look really sort of forest are very important for food security and nutrition Our research in Indonesia show that Among various land use type the people that have the more most diverse diet are the people that live In where they have the most diverse forest and agro forestry's Forest matter for agriculture There is a significant effect of having a forest near an oil palm or Omaze plantation in terms of yield because of the natural pest control Exiled by forest Forest matter also in terms of climate change not simply because of They are carbon stock. They do they are combatable also They have a significant effect in cooling the atmosphere They have a significant effect in creating rains in places that are far away from where they are creating rivers in the skies and What is happening when you deforest in a place like Indonesia as an impact as far as China and Beijing in terms of the amount of deposit of silt that is happening And there is one ecosystem which has been close to my heart for a long time that and Compass all the issue you can think about forest. It's a pitland and mangrove's and Pitland and mangrove's although they represent a small percentage of the world forest are probably the richest and the most carbon rich Ecosystem in the world and also the most threatened and I think I can only encourage and Command Indonesia for all the efforts that Indonesia is currently doing in terms of Restoring and rehabilitating pitland and working on mangrove's and My last word will be that C4 is a research capacity development and communication organization We are not big. We are working with many partners and we are willing to work with anybody in this room For whom forest matter. Thank you