 Dysgrifol y bydd, panelol, ymgyrch, ymgyrch, ymgyrch, ymgyrch, ymgyrch. Rwy'n gweithio gyda'r bydd yw'r hynny, sydd i'n gwneud o'r adeiladau yma, rydyn ni'n gofynu sy'n ddod o'r ddysgu. Rydyn ni'n gwneud o'r hynny, ymddangosion, ffwrdd, yn barhau i'w gwneud. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'n ddysgu ymgyrch, Mae'r gweithio i Suleim a'r Gweithio'r Gweithio, ac rwyaf oedd yn gwybodaeth i'r sloed ddod i mi'n gweithio'r lleol, ac rwy'n gweithio'n gweithio'r proposes. Rwy'n dechrau'n gwahanol yw ei ddweud, gyda fyddwch cyd-ddwy'r cyfeithio, nad yw'n ddweud i'r cyfnodau sydd. Y rwyf yn gwneud i'r cyfeithio'r lleol, is what we're calling adaptation learning exchanges. In defence of this product, I would say it is consistent with and indeed in the spirit of the CBA conferences themselves. These conferences, as I understand them, are about bringing adaptation practitioners together, allowing them to exchange, share experiences, ideas, knowledge, to learn from each other and to form relationships between different organisations and groups. That is what these adaptation learning exchanges are also attempting to do. As a little bit of background, I should say my name is Barney Dixon. I'm from UNEP where I work on climate change adaptation. One of the things that we do in UNEP is to run something called the Global Adaptation Network. This is a global network devoted to promoting exchange and learning on adaptation and how to do it. It has a number of component regional networks underneath this global umbrella. The one which may be known to some of you here is the APAN, the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network. Within GAN, within the Global Adaptation Network over the last year, we've been doing some thinking about what makes for successful learning on adaptation, what makes for a successful knowledge exchange. We've identified three things in particular. One, often what is needed amongst practitioners is knowledge of how to do it, knowledge of practical knowledge, practical knowledge about how to overcome particular problems or challenges. Whether those are challenges of finding necessary resources, challenges of dealing with local administrations, challenges of building support within a community. That kind of practical knowledge which is often what is needed. The second point is that the best people to learn from are those who have done it already, those who have done it successfully, those who in similar circumstances have overcome similar types of problems. The third point is that the best way to learn is through face-to-face exchanges, not through case studies which you've found on the internet or through other forms of learning, but through that face-to-face contact having time to sit down and discuss and work out the solutions to your own set of problems. In the light of those observations, this year GAN, in a pilot phase or an inception phase, the Global Adaptation Network will be sponsoring three such learning exchanges. Each exchange will typically involve two groups or organisations. One is a set of practitioners who want to learn and the second another group who have already done something similar in a not too dissimilar set of circumstances. And to bring those two groups together in order that the learning can occur. The two groups may be two groups within a country or within a region, neighbouring countries perhaps. Or they could be from opposite sides of the globe. We're open on that one. And what we'd like to do at this conference is to identify the participants in the first of these learning exchanges. So if you are a group that has something that you would like to learn about from another group of practitioners, if you are a set of practitioners who you think you have something to teach, then come to see me. And ideally, come to see the pair of you, come together. But if you just want to come one by one, that's fine also. We can see what we can do to facilitate those connections. I will be running a poster session tomorrow afternoon between 4.30 and 6.00 where we can talk more about this. But do come and see me in the meantime as well. Unfortunately, I have to leave very early on Wednesday morning, so basically I'm here today and tomorrow. You'll have to fill out a fairly small form, an expression of interest form, and I will need that either before I leave, but I don't have to have it before I leave or give you a couple of weeks to fill out that simple form. So this product I'm selling to you, these learning exchanges, won't actually cost you any of your cash or very little of it. We hope that global adaptation network can cover costs of travel and subsistence and other related costs in the main. However, this product is not completely free. What it requires from you is commitment, commitment to making them exchange work, commitment of your time, and commitment afterwards to do something to follow up on that exchange to disseminate that learning more widely beyond the two groups who've been participating. Okay, thank you very much. That's the end of the advertisement. I hope to hear from you. I look forward to meeting you. Thank you very much, and now we go back to the more serious business.