 Ladies and gentlemen, we have now arrived almost to the end of this closing ceremony. And now I would like to welcome to the podium Dr. Krishna Chandra Poder, Secretary at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, the Chairperson of this closing ceremony for the closing remarks. Thank you. Chief guest of this closing session, honorable Prakash Mansingh, Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal. Excellency Christiana Figures, Executive Secretary, United Nations Premordial Commission on Climate Chance, Director of IAED, Ms. Camilla Tolman, my dear colleague Dr. Salimul Haq from IAED, Dr. Atik from Vikas, Bangladesh, distinguished delegates, government officials, media representatives, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon to you all. Now we have come to an end of the International Community-Based Adaptation Conference. I feel greatly honored and express my greatest satisfaction for arriving at the successful completion stage of this conference today. In fact, week-long program for this conference was a huge task ahead of us for the organizers. However, it has been possible to conclude with forward-looking Kathmandu Declaration, only because of your dedication, hard work, time reaction and cooperation. Allow me to shallot all of you who took part in this conference and met significant contribution to make this conference highly successful. This conference has set a new milestone in the history of CBA journey. Everything we discussed in the past called for new additional, predictable, timely, financial support, but we never knew how that was possible. But we could never achieve that, and today we have got some way forward. If we work collectively towards this, yes, we can achieve that. Several case studies and experiences shared by distinguished delegates over the week and from your reflection from the field visits has demonstrated that sufficiently. We are happy to host this conference in Nepal, but more happier with the quality outcome of the conference, the Kathmandu Declaration. I thank you all those who took part in the preparation and drafting of this excellent declaration. Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to share some of my own observations towards this conference. This is attended by 62 country participants, 450 participants and excellent academicians, 24 sessions in eight planaries, 16 parallel sessions covering various aspects of adaptation. Finally, this is the conference which could cover the most widest possible areas in adaptation. Secondly, I am highly impressed with the enthusiasm that the conference has demonstrated. There were rich discussions and debates and deliberations, huge youth engagement in climate change adaptation around Kathmandu, excellent cooperation among stakeholders, rich discussions on financing adaptation as well. Adaptation is our survival strategy. Honourable Deputy Prime Minister and His Excellency, the Chief Secretary has already made remarks what I had to make on behalf of my country, but I would like to assure our firm commitment as the leader of the LDC, Nepal is fully committed to serve you all. This conference has enhanced our understanding on the CBA and made us more capable to lead discussion on behalf of the LDC countries as well. There are still several challenges, colleagues, such as how we can reach the most vulnerable communities they need, what is the fastest way to address the problems they face, how we can build resilient communities and whether financing and capacity building would be the reality in the days ahead. As already mentioned by our Chief Secretary, and also reiterated by the Chief Guest, Honourable Deputy Prime Minister, there is no time to waste and lose. We must work collectively or gently. Allow me to thank some of the key personalities around this conference. Firstly, I would like to humbly thank the right Honourable Prime Minister for his inaugural time and space that has guided us throughout. Likewise, let me also congratulate and thank our Deputy Prime Minister, the Chief Guest of this closing ceremony for your remarkable guidance for the days ahead to make climate change adaptation a successful business for each one of us. Chief Secretary, who is very eminent and expert dealing with such matters and he has been very instrumental to guiding us to lead even the LDCs from our colleagues I am grateful to him for his excellent and special remarks. Christiana Figures, you are welcome to country, our country, and I know you have enjoyed few hours, but you suffered more for journeys. If you have more time, please despair. There is lot more to explore in our country. This is a living university to learn how climate change is affecting the world. You are welcome and I wish you very successful stay in Nepal, Bhutan, and everywhere you go during this trip. Thank you very much for your inspiring speech as well as your commitment to our resolving climate change problems together. All these speakers, I would like to thank you very much for your excellent preparation back at home and your excellent presentation here in Kathmandu. All the panelists are thankful, we are very thankful to you all panelists for your excellent time and deliberation and thoughtful discussions. Members of the technical and organizing committees are very committed. This is the demonstration. I would like to thank you all very much as well. There are excellent facilitators around the conference, not only in Kathmandu in this hall, but also we have several volunteers right taking you from the airport and also touring through the country even in the difficult times when you had a traffic jam. Some of you dance, I know some of you feel very painful situation. I am sorry for that, but we could appreciate only for your adaptation strategy that you could make, come back to Kathmandu and make this conference a successful one. Likewise, I would like to humbly salute the communities who have taken their time, given time to all of us to tell the stories of success, how communities have been resolving the problems locally, whether or not we have been instrumental to be working together to resolve their problems. The field trip organizing communities and the institutions including WWF, Libet, practical action and all of you for your hard work. I would like to thank the Vittal Organizing Committee, the Salty Auberai, Salty Everest Organizer, event organizers, the poster presenters, the exhibition participants and the institution. Allow me to propose a big applause for all of them together. To ask them, let me thank the organizers, IAED, particularly Shalimul Haq because and Clean Energy Nepal for their hard work over months. I couldn't believe how hard it was unless I could see myself being a part of this conference. Particularly the IAED at home, the young people, including Sunilji and all, you are very enthusiastic and I congratulate you for taking the lead in collaborating and hosting this together with the government. I also propose a big applause to you all organizers. I can't name you all, but I only can thank you, thank you, all the co-sponsors who you are, you know, each of them, a big thank to all of them. It's time we wish the least as Christiana has already mentioned to grow up. Finally, on behalf of the government of Nepal and on behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to express our sincere appreciation to all the distinguished participants for all our international delegates. We wish you to have more time in Kathmandu and in Nepal and a safe Zowni back home. I hope this conference has been very useful to all of us in some or other ways. If nothing else, the conference in Kathmandu would definitely be a memorable one to all of you. This has added responsibility to take care of the planet Earth collectively. And I wish all of you to be able to contribute towards this. I once again assure our firm commitment towards the climate change convention processes and also to work together with you all. Let's face the challenges together, let's resolve them together and let's enjoy the living together. With these words, I now finally conclude the adjourn of this 8th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation. See you in the 9th CBS somewhere. Thank you very much.