 This session is something different, what the previous speakers present it... My background is coming from the environmental and social sciences. I'm not actually presenting any specific paper, but research work from the previous year. We are working with the climate mitigation, adaptation and natural resources governance research with our partners from various countries. And today I thought that I'm actually presenting environmental collaboration, what we mean and understand with environmental collaboration and how it's actually linked to the climate change and also these risks, what climate change is already having but also creating in the future. And once we are talking environmental collaboration, these types of collaborative actions for example, often those are related to conflict resolution, conflict mediation actions but also the responsive natural resources and collective actions to mitigate and also to adapt to climate change. And once we consider these, what type of processes are environmental collaboration, there are certain descriptions, certain norms in these type of processes, for example public purpose, inclusiveness, representation, shared decision making, third party facilitation is always or often connected to these type of collaborative actions, committee, conveners, power balancing, deliberative and collaborative platforms. So for example in our studies these are so-called descriptions of the processes in these countries which we are working with. And then if you look the terrorists for example from the social sciences or political sciences, they connect to collaboration and collaborative decision making often with the reason-based decisions and how those are foundation for the cross-group democracy and empower deliberative democracy. And yes, we as the environmental social science scholars as well we agreed very much with these political sciences. But same time we are also a bit critical because sometimes also these participatory processes might have a risk that those are undermining the for example existing governance failures and also these so-called uneven playing fields which sometimes also are connected these type of collaborative processes for example between the public, private and people partnerships. Where for example you might know these processes where for example private sector is quite in the different balance and these so-called uneven playing fields can be very visible in these type of processes. But also we use this term as symbolic violence which comes from the philosophy purdia meaning that it's these type of situations are sometimes quite naive that when the people for example do not have the same resources or same information or same possibilities for example negotiating in these type of participatory processes this can be also the violence. Not maybe in the violence in the physical means but the violence in the symbolic way. And then what we also have studied in these processes how these collaborative processes are connected with soft security. Yes we do agree that environmental collaboration it can be very well demonstrating these type of processes where the soft security are promoted through the civic skills participatory and collaborative approaches but also in these type of social processes to for example mitigate the conflicts and these measures to mediate the conflicts which for example in these current climate conditions sometimes are just creating the situations where people need the very different type of civic skills like the previous presenter was also saying that once the conditions are harsh people also it's impacting to our society in very many ways elections or food conditions or for example in migration and in these situations the environmental collaboration but also these type of skills to promote soft security comes more important. And we have been also working with the large project here in Finland with the youth studies and youth researchers and which also claims that this climate chain environmental crisis and support for sustainable transformation also requires the social debate which actually not only here in Finland but globally the youth have been very active in debating but also if you look the climate actions which youth have been very active often these actions have been seen very critically or even sometimes seen that this is the risking and conflicting in our societies when youth are for example demonstrating at the streets but our research we see that this is actually this youth debate and also the demonstrations this is the way how youth are showing their ways to act and it's also important that we see that this demonstration can be a way to drive the chains what can be called as transformation sustainability transformation which this current climate crisis are also very important And just to showing the one example from the Finland Finland have been one of the first country actually building up this type of networks among the countries relation to this youth peace and security which are called in UN processes as UN regulation 2250 and Finland was among of those countries for built actually the action plan to how to implement how to support not only the youth but youth organization and the state in various levels to actually support the youth in not only the peace building but also the various soft security ways and for example this environmental collaboration conflict resolution course series which we have been implementing here in Finland and among of our partner countries it's one of these examples how us adults can support the young people with these soft security skills and for example this during the COVID yes we couldn't organize the face-to-face courses but once you are innovative it's also possible to do this type of training and research through the web based systems and these seems to be year after year we have more applicants to applying to participate these courses and these courses are also related to term environmental citizenship which stops on one of the scholars who have been studying these type of environmental processes but also this intergenerational learning processes he see that environmental citizenship is a commitment to the common sustainable futures so that it's not only us as individual persons but this type of intergenerational knowledge sharing plays very important role in environmental collaboration and this environmental collaboration it's also a possibility to co-create social innovations to get something which is not only as somewhere top-down blueprint interventions but how it creates for example space for the youth to create their own innovations to support the soft security and their own actions in our society and one type of this what we call as intergenerational learning and knowledge co-creation models related to mitigation and adaptation to the climate change is this model which have been created with the youth and the youth organization but also different type of organizations here in Finland the youth could share their own understanding of the climate change but also together with these volunteer adults to then create the new ways to act in our society the other example comes from Tanzania where the climate change has been very much changed to for example agriculture, forestry to certain sectors have been for example changed the climate so that it's very difficult to see when the planting seasons are for example starting when you can for example carry out the fire protection activities in the certain areas in Tanzania and there through these collaborative processes environmental collaboration offered the possibility for these different actors in the rural level to actually create and share their own experiences and build this type of collaborative processes how they could mitigate the forest fires for example then one of our recent studies which we are studying here in Finland is this UNESCO Manon Biosphere Reserves this concept of Manon Biosphere it's actually quite old concept and this Manon Biosphere Reserves is global network but for example here in Finland it's gave a very positive example in the eastern part of Finland how the different actors with some times are actually having very conflicting interest how they are actually creating the platforms to discuss shared understanding of the for example when the tourist enterprises and the forest sector is functioning in the same landscape, same areas and this type of collaborative actions also promotes the idea that when there is the conservation areas these conservation areas can also give new type of livelihoods for the local people of course there in previously there was a lot of this type of cross boundary collaboration between the Finland and Russia but unfortunately in this current era those actions are not continuing but concluding environmental collaboration is it the rhetoric or key for the soft security yes there is a lot of scholars who are very critical towards this type of processes and participatory actions and yes I agree with them that sometimes these can be what for example this our colleagues who have been studying the Nepal and various other countries and they are for example saying that this can end up to be empty promises or themselves to means to reproduce the existing political orders or powers or what earlier I was saying that creating the symbolic violence or sometimes actually the real violence for example what we have been following in one of our case studies in Mexico but however I'm also arguing that climate change and the conflict risk requires the new type of skills and ways to act and these type of facilitation skills and collaborative ways to mitigate and also to mediate the conflicts these should be considered as civic skills and these type of skills like what we consider for example as here in Finland the first aid skills which are then for example as school trainings and the various workplaces for example here in Finland you can get the free courses for the first aid skills and in our understanding also this type of collaborative skills facilitation skills these should be considered as well the skills which are in everyday day life we should learn so thank you very much