 And welcome again everyone to the session on the we call it the generation gap, which is going to be an intergenerational dialogue between established institutions like the GCA also representatives from the COP 2016. And as well as participants who belong to civil society organizations and establish institutions who are seeking to work on putting young people at the heart of the work they do. To get it started, we are trying to use this session to answer some very critical questions, which we know sit on the on the minds of many young people and very thoughtful organizations as well. And one central question is how can we ensure adaptation and development that respects the radically different priorities of new generations. And this is a very difficult question to answer. And with your brilliant engagement and participation in this session, we are hoping to develop a pathway or some recommendations on how we can achieve that. I'm really looking forward to your contribution to the session when you can. Part of the reason why did we created this session at CBA 14 was that over the past years we've seen that young people are seeking to influence decision making through different approaches. I believe have also been the attraction for participants at CBA 14 to join this session. Because it was part of the session description that we see that different young people use by various approaches like protest social media campaign petition flash mobs to express themselves and express the changes they wish to see. At the same time, we know that institutions are struggling to take on all these demands that are coming from young people and integrate them into policies and make it actionable. So how do we achieve that. And that is the reason why we've got it here today. To open the session, you'll have a short poll to get to know who is in the room what your experiences are where you're coming from and to get some statistics is behind this event. So I will ask our zoom supports from CBA 14 to launch the poll and please take some few minutes to respond to these questions. And then we will get to know how diverse we are at this event, and we can get it, get it going. So I'll you and Lynn, please launch the poll. Thanks. Great. So I believe you should have the poll now on your screens. Feel free to scroll down once you are done answering the questions, which are sort of showing up so question one and two. And afterwards you can scroll down. There are five questions in all. And we will wait for majority of you to respond before we close it. So please do so. You can at age, gender, regions you are calling in from your knowledge on climate adaptation, and as well as your occupation. Once we are done with this, I will invite five representatives of the youth adaptation network being established by the Global Sentinel Adaptation. And they will talk about the outcomes of the consultation that have been held in the region, as well as key questions that they have for the GCA COP 2016 and the Climate Adaptation Summit coming up next year. And afterwards we will have representatives from these organizations responding to these questions. So the youth reps please be ready to step in once the poll is done. So we have 50 respondents out of 63. Great. I think we can close it when we get to 90% of the poll. So Lynn and Aliona kindly help on that once we have 90% of the participants voted. Okay, we're on 87. If you haven't voted, please do. So we can hit 90%. So 89%. I think the challenge is that people are still joining while we vote. Great. Okay, so I think we can close it now. We have 58 people. Okay, now we hit 90% brilliant. Okay, so let's share the results and see how diverse we are at this event. Great. So interesting. We have people within the age of 13 to 20, which I find very impressive and I'm very happy to see that for a Zoom call. And I'm very happy that we could we could manage this. We have sort of majority between the ages of 26 to 30, which is great. I'm very happy that we have 36 plus people also on the call to bring in the perspectives of the older generation, and as well as establish institutions who are joining us today. So that is really awesome as well. We have a majority of the people that between 21 and 35, which is great. So it's very youthful event. Gender-wise, we have majority being female. I'm very happy to see this as well, given that there's a lot of work going on by different organizations to really mainstream gender, even in the youth conversation as well. We have great representation from Asia, from Europe and from Africa. That is awesome. And we have representation from Latin America, Australia, Pacific region and North America as well. And we have sort of people with somewhat knowledge on climate adaptation. And I think this is really the argument for why we have we need to have more events like this to really put focus on climate adaptation. And I want to talk about the youth adaptation network, which we are putting together. And yes, we are very diverse in our sector. We have policymakers here. We have researchers here. We have private sector here and we have civil society here. So we have everything we need to really get to the objective we set for ourselves, which is to be able to develop a pathway on how we can really accommodate for the radical needs. And priorities of new generations. To move to the next step of this event, I will be inviting five young leaders from around the world who will talk about the outcomes of consultations that was held by the Global Center on Adaptation through the youth adaptation network. All across the globe. They will be talking about what were the outcomes of these youth consultations and present key questions to our panelists today. So first, I will call Russia Hassan on the Middle East. I saw the floor is yours. Thank you Joshua and then now for creating this meeting and welcome everyone to this meeting I would like to welcome everyone. I am Russia I am from Syria and located now in Cadiz, Spain. I am my PhD candidate in climate and natural change and global natural systems and climate change and University of Barcelona. I provided some insights about my region problems regarding climate change and climate adaptation issue. I illustrated that the climate adaptation is not a priority in my in my region, unfortunately, due to many problems and issues including political instability, environmental lacking of environmental technical skills and lack of freedom and political freedom so youth cannot express their opinions in a healthy way. If we can say more over I during the COVID-19 phase we were hit severely by economic crisis. So I would like to ask that how would you link climate adaptation to the needs of people, the people who are trying to to fulfill their day to day basis needs, basic needs? This is my first question. Thank you very much. We will take all the questions and later on Karina and Mike will respond to that together with Matt. So please go ahead if you have a second question. My second question is would you provide extra support and extra financial aid to the use of the Middle East to build their capacity and try to raise awareness about the importance of climate adaptation. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. That's really key questions coming out there regarding political instability and survival, linking that to climate adaptation. I will take next Zai from the Amazon region and an indigenous representative and a bit of a background so there was a consultation held particularly for indigenous people within Latin America with a huge focus on the Amazon area and together there was a second consultation with indigenous representatives across Latin America, Canada and Asia and we will have Zai sharing some insights on that and posing key questions that came out of this consultation. Zai, please, over to you. Please unmute. Great. Hi, good morning. First I would like to say sorry about my English. I need to improve. And if you have issues and I will be able to translate Portuguese to English for you. So please feel confident to express yourself. Yeah. Okay. Who can translate like this, right? You can say that I translate for you. Oh, that's great. It's because my English is fine. I speak but it's still a little messy, I understand much better. And here it's early in the evening I'm a little lazy like that. But anyway. I don't know what to say in English, but first I would like to say I'm very happy to be here today. And I think this is very important. And I would like to talk about my, a little about my, my place here. I have a big problem in the lands, indigenous lands. We have a lot of invasions. I was in indigenous lands and there we can see. I don't know what I'm saying, I don't know what I'm saying, I don't know what I'm saying. There in indigenous land, I was there in the local land, not only in the local land, but in all indigenous lands in London. We can find enormous killings in the lands of indigenous lands. And I respect the rights of indigenous rights and the rights of the forests. And it's the best thing to continue. Chai said to us that not only in the indigenous lands in Rondonia, but in other indigenous lands over Brazil. We can see this respect not only of the environment by the invasions in those indigenous lands but also of the indigenous rights as well in those locations due to the deforestation that it's constantly happening in those regions. And so I've never seen my whole life. And look, last year was a very critical year, but I've never seen so much smoke and so many burned, as is happening now. And we can't say that this is not connected to climate change. This is directly related to climate change, the life of these populations that live in these indigenous lands. And now for the whole population, because these smoke, they are not only in indigenous lands, they are only in the forest. But they can be found on the streets when we come back to indigenous, to the city, because at the moment I'm in Porto Pedro, which is the capital. And in the city you find, you wake up, it's full of smoke, you know? And this is directly affecting the lives of people, because Porto Velho is one of the cities that COVID is growing instead of decreasing. Okay. And Chai also said to us that this year has been a critical year because she has never been so much smoke and fog because of the burning of the forests. And she said that last year was an extremely critical year, but she has never seen what happens this year. And this is not only affecting the forest itself, but you can already see this smoke going to the city. So when you go from the indigenous communities to the city, so Chai said that now she's located in the capital of Hondonha, which is Porto Velho, you already can see those smokes from there and also in the roads from the forests to the big cities. And this is a problem that is affecting even the health. As we can see that in this location, where is she? It's that she's in this location where she is. The cases of COVID, they are increasing instead of decreasing as in the rest of the country at this moment. So it's a problem of health, public problem. And then my question is exactly how these policies, I will call them like this, how and if they will actually arrive at the people who are at the base of the fight of the climate change that we indigenous peoples understand. How in fact we are going to be benefited or how in fact it will help us in our fight because today it is said that there are no more climate changes. We call them climatic emergencies because you can no longer change what has already been done, just decrease the consequences and how to help us to be able to reduce these consequences. If in fact it will arrive at the base of those who are there in the village, because we know that there are n difficulties. I will translate and I will close to move on to the next one. Thank you, Ana. Thank you. So Chai asks us if those policies that we are proposing, they will really reach the grass root organizations, especially the indigenous communities, because she says that it's extremely, and she knows that it's extremely hard to reach those communities for any different types of challenges. And she wants to know how it's thought to be done and if it is going to be really effectively done to those communities. So this is her question and she also mentions the importance that nowadays we talk about climate emergency and not more about climate change, because we need already to act and to do because people are really suffering, especially indigenous communities. So thanks a lot. Thank you, Chai. And over to you, Josh. Thank you. Thank you very, very much, Chai and Ana for making this possible. And I know that our speakers and panelists will address these issues to the core of it and provide the solidarity and confidence that is needed to address these issues. To move on to the next representative is Olumide Idou, who is with Africa Youth Initiative on Climate Change, and was a critical in the partnership that was needed to hold Africa Consultation. Olumide, please, over to you. Please don't have to tell me yourself. I see he's on the call, but he's not on, he's still on mute. And while we wait for him to unmute, I will quickly then take Sarah Fahinkan from our network in South Asia. Sarah. Thank you, Joshua. And my greetings to you all. I am Sarah Fahinkan and I'm currently working at the International Center for Climate Change and Development, Iqat, Bangladesh, and I'm representing on behalf of the Youth Adaptation Network of South Asia. I have previously participated in the event, which was held day before yesterday. Firstly, my heartiest gratitude and thanks to all of you for participating in this event, particularly this session, which not only aims to bring a change in our biological environment, but also our social environment. As it is high time to partner with our young leaders across the globe to encourage collaboration, resilience, and capacity building, which will ultimately benefit the local communities, and will bring a change in the mentality of many. So we know elder Asian people accepting to changes and requirements of the youth is rare and needs to be changed, to be honest. And what could be better than starting off with the youth itself, right. So, who are the current leaders as well as has the ability to upscale the generations to come. As the climate change intensifies over time it is quite evident that the youngsters are the ones who are going to face the actual hardness of climate change, causing increased wildfires, blood drought erosion of coastal areas rising temperatures, insect outbreaks and whatnot right. So, young people of South Asia are tapping into their skills to speak up for climate action, which was prominent in the regional youth consolidation of South Asia, youth from different districts of Bangladesh participated voluntarily and spoke on their difficulties and solutions related to climate change. We know consultancy, we know consistency is the key to progress and amongst the problems discussed what we mostly, what mostly came up was the lack of consistency. Similarly, speaking of education education helps to adopt to climate change, but most people in the disaster prone area have no idea of why these disasters are taking place. Time and experience might have taught me how to adopt but mitigation is something which could be only taught by experts, particularly climate experts. If these topics are added to the primary level textbooks, maybe then they can take necessary measures to adopt and mitigate climate change from a very young age. On the other hand, change in education related approach is crucial and more practical knowledge is encouraged and was encouraged in the session as well. And bookish knowledge and updated knowledge on climate change is to be provided to the young learners talking about advocacy advocacy requires the experience and workshops over knowledge, which will help in rising awareness and insurance specific climate change related information climate change initiatives need to be implemented in rural and remote areas. Connect can come in connect demands demanded to addressing networking issues and fascinating to guide them online campaigns and monitoring of activities should be done from the GCA, but but but but there is less availability and limited access of training opportunities in remote and disaster areas of Bangladesh and countries like Nepal, Bhutan, etc. So there is very limited or absolutely no accessibility of internet coverage or phone network where meetings like this cannot be arranged campaigns and youth training programs is to be done by volunteers and experts by going there physically. Here youth training program. And here the youth training programs is to be done by volunteers of GCA by helping them physically going there right so by training particular groups on adopting climate change and sending them far off to train other groups and communities and so on and so forth. So, this is particularly my take from the South Asian adaptation network. Hope I could outline the overall concept of consistency session. So, I would like to have a question I would like to add a question, which is, since the South Asian countries like Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan are prone to natural disasters. The question is, how GCA is aiming to provide a for the remote areas of Bangladesh. Thank you. Great. Thank you very much Sarah, quite a lot of different things that has to be addressed by our, our senior participants here. I want to repeat a couple of things which I find very, very important. One is limited opportunities or even no opportunities at all for communities where the risk is even much higher. And while you were talking I could see that our colleagues in the South Asia region were not in their head, constantly in support of this. And I would like for you to see the responses that comes out of that. And I think that also for Martin co 26 team to really how do we bring such voices to the co 26 in areas where virtual engagement is probably not even possible when you do virtual events. And for that, I will quickly take Kehal, who is part of the youth environment, Europe network and Kehal and his team have been very supportive and partnering with us at the GCA to hold consultations in Europe. Over to you. Thanks, Josh, try to be fast enough. And using environment here we go to the European consultation last week. It's very clear listening to all the other youth speakers that in Europe, I think we are very, very privileged both when it comes to the opportunities that we have and also in the effects of climate change that we are like, exposed to our far far reduced compared to a lot of other regions in the world. And, but I guess they're always improvements in terms of involvement. And we're just some of the points that were highlighted in our session. And I'll draw attention to now. So for example, from a European perspective, there are actually quite a lot of different formal dialogues and mechanisms for young people to get involved. And with both national and EU bodies in terms of giving a platform to their voice or getting involved in the decisions. And but one thing that was brought up was how there aren't quite as many opportunities at local level, or for individuals who aren't involved in such organizations such as why or again for individuals who are entrepreneurs or working in business sectors fighting climate change in terms of all of the business side of things. And there are much less opportunities available to them in Europe. And so that would be one issue to look at in terms of being inclusive and supportive to those smaller levels in terms of creating solutions for adaptation in Europe. And then one of the other issues that was highlighted was how it is so much more empowering for young people to be involved in in workshops or hackathons where they get to basically interact and meet and connect and network with other young people. Rather than some kind of a webinar to educate them or to have different awards for competitions where they don't really get to interact with anyone else, the opportunity to be able to make connections and to kind of learn from and co-create solutions with other young people is extremely valuable. So that's another point that could be brought up and certainly expanded on in terms of the work of different organizations in Europe. And then lastly, the one I wanted to raise was, and I have been very impressed with how GCA has handled involving young perspectives and as I said, it is something that is quite common in Europe. But there was quite a strong voice among the young people at our consultation and just noting how, although young people are often included in these conversations, it can often feel that it is in a very tokenistic way. And that as great as it is to be able to be given these opportunities and if it doesn't actually feel like anyone is listening to you and any real action is being taken on anything that you said or at least leads to any kind of outcomes, and that can feel very tokenistic and kind of patronizing. So I guess my primary question to the people on the call here today is how you might plan to give more power to the voices and decisions of young people at international summits such as Cal26 or the climate adaptation summit, or at least find better ways to incorporate their perspectives in a way that isn't so tokenistic. Thank you. Thank you very much, Kail. I saw Mike, Karina, Adriana, and Odin Jahed. I know Matt and his team are also taking note of this in terms of engagement towards bigger conferences at international level. And I think this also sides with a comment I saw in the chat box from Cheryl Soi, where she was also talking about how to really bring in indigenous knowledge towards the climate adaptation policies, said that we have a bottom up approach and then a top down approach. So these questions will be answered. Now, finally, we have a representative from Africa, Urumide Yodobu, who was part of the Africa Consultation, and he will quickly talk about what were the key messages of the consultation as well as the questions that we will throw to our panelists here to answer. Urumide, over to you. Okay. Thank you, everyone. I hope you can hear me very well, right? Yes, we can. Can you hear me? Yes, thank you. First and foremost, thank you for giving me this opportunity to also share a little bit of a point from Africa after our consultation. We're able to get, like, three key outputs, which I think is very, very important for everybody to also actually to listen to what we're saying. First and foremost, my name is Urumide. I'm the Communication Director for African Unititiative Climate Change, and our aim is like an umbrella. Hello, Urumide. Hello. Yes, we have a background sound, so please hold on. Great. Please, a very strong background noise. It's not my place. I can hear you very well. I don't have any background noise. Okay, great. Please proceed. Can you hear me now? Yes, better now. Please proceed. Okay. So, like I said, African Unititiative Climate Change is the network umbrella of young people in Africa working on civil society across all over Africa. But this actually gets from our conversation. One of these is to understand the issue about climate change because awareness about it. That is one of the key strong aspects. And the second one, which everybody is talking about. I'm so sorry to interrupt. Would you mind switching my camera off just to try if the connection will be better? If you just switch your camera off and we'll see if we can hear you better. Okay. Thank you. Can you hear me now? Yes. Can you hear me? Yes. The first point I raised here is the need for capacity building for young people to understand the issue about climate change because awareness about the problem will enhance the chances of adaptation. And people will be able to have more understanding. Because if you see, I don't know where from the survey we filled where we started, the last part is actually talking about how do we actually understand adaptation? And which this is one of the key conversations for African youth to actually get the learning of adaptation strategy. The second point is, like I said, African youth, we are looking towards because of the job unemployment, we talk about investment opportunity around the economic side of the SDGs. I'm using that, the economic dimension of the SDGs. So we are looking at financial support to support the youth adaptation initiatives that can help young people, that can help you to actually drive that sustainable change and build back better for economic growth. Then the last one is inclusion in the development and implementation of a national strategy plan. Because most of our adaptation plan in Africa needs a lot of implementation, though we have a lot of fantastic policies, fantastic idea on ground. But how can we make sure that implementation of this national adaptation plan is being worked on so that it's going to make a good opening grant for young people to work effectively and to enjoy the issue of a build back better green recovery. And adaptation strategy. So those are the key strong output and I think these are the things that we want our global leaders, African leaders to start looking at how they can mainstream investment opportunity for young people when it comes to adaptation issues. Thank you very much. Brilliant. Thank you very, very much. For laying out this really fantastic points on education investments and inclusion into the policy and implementation process. I mean, being at the consultation myself and being part of the other consultations. One of the comments someone made was we always hear there is a project by the government, but we never really know what exactly it is. Or we don't really understand what these projects are but there are always reports on projects during the conferences, and we don't know what this really mean, and how we can be part of that. I think this is something that I've been looking forward to hearing responses from from our GCA colleagues, and also the call 2016 to really provide support and remarks on this. So let's get into getting responses and beginning the dialogue and interaction. So, first of all, want to quickly introduce Mike, Karina and Matt. So Mike is the, is working with the GCA Karina also with the GCA lead in the private sector initiatives there and Matt is the engagement and partnership lead for COP26. Mike will start by introducing himself, and we'll give remarks and responses to the questions that have been raised but also talk about the GC is work. Mike, please. Hi Josh and hi everyone. And first of all, let me just say a big thank you to everyone for joining today's session with Josh for kind of moderating it kind of expertly and to kind of our hosts that IIDD for putting on a CBA 14 because it's a great opportunity to have these types of conversations. I'm going to try and keep my remarks super short because there are something like 7080 folks on the line that's meant to be a dialogue so me just killing you by PowerPoint is not going to energize, it's not going to inform, it's not going to take the conversation forward. So what I'd like to do is very briefly outline who the GC are, what our plans are, briefly on kind of youth leadership. In doing so try to answer some of the questions put forward, apologize if I can't answer them all but some of them actually will require me to have probably an hour in myself just to kind of answer that because those are good questions. And but also encourage folks to use the chat function because such as the way of zoom is that only one person can talk at the same time. There's not so if way but I've already seen some great ideas I've made some notes. So if I don't respond to them now and make notes and you know we're going to take these ideas back and kind of really kind of use them to inform our work at least and I'm sure that my colleagues from COP 2016 would be thinking exactly the same. So I'm going to ask the colleagues running the zoom to share my screen, which is great. Thanks so much, Lynn. We'll share that screen my PowerPoint. I'm going to run to the next night. Thanks so much. And so the slide will soon move on, I hope, to show very briefly kind of who the global central and adaptation is where an international organization hosted by the Netherlands set up just a few years today. And with offices kind of headquartered in Rotterdam office in the north of the country in the Netherlands but also with offices now in Beijing, Dhaka and Abhijan and so covering South Asia, Africa and China. Today I've come across the global commission on adaptation. And if you can go into the next slide, please, Lynn. The global commission on adaptation was set up, chaired by banky moon, Bill Gates, Christian Georgieva, and it's a kind of time bound project to really kind of accelerate the political kind of visibility and do what folks were just saying on the call now about awareness raising raising awareness level at the kind of a higher political policy making level about why adaptation is so important. And the global commission released a report last September and he kind of opening of the UN General Assembly with heads of states and the other commission members there kind of really kind of focusing on kind of why adaptation is not just urgent and needed but also on become opportunities and them as a little made a said, bringing out the kind of the economic benefits of adapting now because if we leave it too late financially the cost again and kind of rise exponentially. And so the adaptation commission, not only come out of this report because made the case but also wanted to kind of take forward and kind of enact action on this agenda. So it's not just enough to write a report and leave it on the shelf and that's it you've also got to put forward recommendations and action and that's where the global central adaptation comes in next slide please, Lynn. Which is we've been set up to act as a solutions broker. There's a lot of great work going on around the world. A lot of great work with your organizations already doing yourself. A lot of great work by the governments by community organizations by companies, but actually it's a it's not enough and be there's simply not enough of it is being shared with each other. And so, as a solutions broker we can bring together these various stakeholders, whether on programs and action, agenda setting and advocacy or knowledge and acceleration to kind of make the changes which we feel are necessary to really kind of bring adaptation to the level that is needed. And we can have free revolutions that we talk about in this space is a revolution in understanding. So make sure that people are aware and understand much better kind of what is needed for adaptation and revolution in planning. So that these risks of the climate impacts in the coming years are better understood and incorporated into planning for businesses for companies for local governments for community organizations. And I think that these risks are better understood and made for taking into consideration when making decisions and revolution finance, because as folks will know on this call, certain promises were made about supporting communities already feeding the impacts of climate change as part of the House agreement and kind of those finance flows currently just aren't happening at the scale that is needed. So as a solutions broker we help kind of find those solutions without their those needs that are unmet and try to connect them with those kind of governments and donor organizations that are helping to and want to support them. And the bank community on the left because he's the chair of our board to so he's not only the chair of the commission but the chair of the global center in that position to missing from this slide is any mention of youth. And I think that's for one good reason, I mean you could put you into society organizations, but actually we don't want to pigeonhole you in any one area, because if you go into the next slide. So our youth program is to make you central in driving that application agenda implementation. We want to put young people wherever we work, and in whatever we do involve perspectives of young people. On the right hand side is some of these projects which we're going either setting up now, like the efficient network, which I'm very glad that colleagues and just spoke about just now, but also these other projects to be launched over the coming years, including a solutions challenge. So, I hope responding to some of what Kyle said about not just giving young people to the table but also allowing them to interact with others and enter kind of in a kind of positive collaborative sense to kind of really to utilize the kind of energy and ideas of young people and to make them together so kind of the sun is greater than the past. There's also kind of a scheme placing kind of young the winners of that challenge within the global center so they're kind of hands on experience on kind of working in this space, not just with us but with our partners and they'll kind of ask Karina to say a bit more about that after me. And also a big piece on education because this came out very strongly in the questions before education in the broadest possible sense. So yes, there'll be online kind of resources and materials and being led by our knowledge and science hub. And also it's the capacity building which folks spoke about both in the chat on the side and in the questions earlier. And also, and this is where I'm really keen to hear the ideas of everyone on this call is kind of how do we provide education and awareness raising and skills training in a way which reaches those who otherwise don't have a chance to take part in this. And we've had a few ideas outside about kind of training young people to then go out into the rural areas where they live and so they become able to change themselves so very much putting young people driving out of the agenda. I'm really keen to hear the experiences and views of kind of those on this call as to how we can make education and awareness raising as accessible and as effective as it needs to be. I think that's my last slide, which I, which I hope kind of kept things as short as it needs to be. So, Lin, if you could maybe kind of stop sharing now and let me just quickly look through my notes to check whether there's any questions, big burning questions there which I didn't answer. I mean, I'll just say thank you first to Rasha, Chai, Sada, Kayo and Aruma Day because as I said your questions were excellent. I think I've said as much as I can at this stage so I'll just pass over to Karina and as I said I'm really keen to kind of have this conversation in the kind of time that we have and and for this to be a start for kind of more such conversations. Thank you so much. Thank you Mike. Karina please. I love your background. It's just absolutely wonderful. So I had to say it. Well, thank you very much. It was really interesting and I won't take too much time either because there's many on this call I would like to hear from. I wish we had a whole day but I guess even if we had a whole day I probably wouldn't have the answers to some of these questions because they're just too much and I'm not sitting on some of those funds myself but I think just as both Rasha and Chai and I think all of you were talking about how interlinked the social and environmental challenges are. I mean climate change, migration, which there was a lot on in the chat box, indigenous rights, human rights, jobs, investment, education and solutions. It's all really complex, interrelated cross-border challenges where solutions varies between different regions and no stakeholder can solve almost any of these on their own. So it really, you keep coming back to this kind of collaboration, partnerships, public, private, government, private sector, academia, working together and I think the youth has a really important role together with NGOs, civil society, etc. to push, to keep pushing for solutions, keep pushing your questions, but I think it's important, I worked a lot with the private sector and there you do play a very important role together with consumers and civil society in pushing companies to do more because they could be doing so much more. But I think it's also important, I'm derating a bit, I'll come back to the trial, it's also important to know where your friends are, so many times the sustainability heads in companies are young people's and civil society people's friends because they are pushing inside a company. So push and have knowledge behind what you say and do so that you also give roses when good things are done, so to speak, and that you put your money where your mouth is when you buy brands, when you buy things and make a big fuss about it on social media, why you choose one and not the other, etc. You can have a lot of impact there because companies listen more and more on that. But anyway, back to the kind of social and environmental and the interrelatedness of all these challenges and the solutions. For the first time ever, we have a joint roadmap in the world in the SDGs. So I also think it's important to link the work you do back to the SDGs as we do at the GCA as well. We kind of anchor all the things we do in the SDG agenda because the good thing with that is, even if it's so broad and impossible and all the rest, it's somewhere where everyone working in the space can plug in what they do, so to speak. And you can go back and you demand things and you link it to the SDGs. And so back to the GCA and business being an important piece of the puzzle, both when it comes to the business is important for the problems, but they're also important for the solutions. And some of the solutions we just need, technological innovations, we need innovative business models, we need their reach, we need their investment, we need jobs, etc. So we are pushing a lot at the GCA and trying to find ways to encourage business to work more resilience and adaptation. And it is quite, it's a bit of a new area. A lot of companies are very engaged in the climate change mitigation space, more and more net zero strategies, more and more reducing emissions strategies. The big companies have them and it's becoming more and more mainstream. Resilience and adaptation is starting up. So for the youth, I was speaking too long, for the youth, the last one, so for the youth leadership program, what we're trying to do is invite companies, we're going out with invitation out to 100 CEOs and companies asking them to come, youth leadership partners, which means they would be part of helping to judge and also give advice and scale up some of the innovative solutions that comes out of the solutions challenge. And they will host, if they agree, we are trying to get this to happen, host winners of the solutions challenge in the company as an stash, what do you call it, internship. We also want them to send young staff to GCA is to be part of the same intern program so we open the channel for dialogue because the good thing we want them to hear your ideas your questions your solutions and, and we want you to we want everyone to learn from each other and coming back to my final world which is what I spent my whole career on is the trying to make the different sides work together collaboration partnerships, joint definition of problems joint definition of success joint road maps and trying to move together. And still needing to be pushed by activists as yourself. And it is so true. As very last word, it is so true where, where, where are you now. Who was he saying that one of you saying that you that you are you inherited the planet and all the climate change issues that previous generations, especially ours have created. And that is very true. And you're in your full right to push for things to change fast. Thanks. Thank you very much Karina. I'm just going to pick a couple of things which I hope will make a limited very happy and others who also hammered on the point of creating opportunities in terms of investments, and also on the path of sort of training programs and Karina thanks a lot for emphasizing the work you are doing now to bring in enough private sector partnership to allow the GCA to provide enough opportunities opportunities for young people, and also to sort of polish the ideas and the innovative innovation that they are developing to make it possible to move towards idea to implementation. So thanks a lot for that Karina, as well as of course that they need to increase advocacy on the last point. So really great. Matt, I'm looking at you now as the last speaker for this for this session. What do you have to say. Yeah. Hello Josh, and thank you very much for inviting me to be part of this just to say so my colleague Nikita is on the call as well we're both from the cop unit in the UK. And are in the team in the UK government responsible for coordinating work towards the cop. It's been it's been fantastic hearing all of the thoughts comments so far. And those on the chat as well as Mike was saying and Karina as well very keen to sort of keep the space for discussion and dialogue rather than try and fill up the time myself here. I'm taking notes as I go and very keen that this is a start of a dialogue that that we can have as as the UK presidency going into cop 26. And very much sort of support the themes around collaboration partnership working absolutely you know see that as a critical part of the lead up to cop. I thought I'd just say just a very short bit on the UK is kind of priority leading into cop and then a bit about how we would like to work with a range of youth organizations young people and pick up on some of the great sort of questions that have been added asked here. I mean the overall approach that the use UK's got is I'd emphasise ambition and inclusion as the sort of two key elements of our approach to the cop 26. We know that we have to approach the presidency in a fairly inclusive way to get the most sustainable outcomes. I think as others have said we have to be ambitious we have to be ambitious because we're off track to meet the Paris goals. We need national governments to come forward with much stronger national commitments and NBC plans. We need them to be three to five times greater than they are now so we're asking all countries to come forward with more stretching plans. And that's where we want to work with partnerships you know from states cities business but young people have a huge voice here in in raising the pressure on national governments to come forward with more stretching plans themselves and we have to be more ambitious because as as many people here have already been saying the impacts are absolutely being felt now of climate change. And as the last five years have been hottest on record and we're seeing impacts right the way across the world with the most vulnerable communities effective most and young people affected the most. So adaptation of resilience is a priority for the UK presidency and that includes the commitment to the hundred billion climate finance that includes driving forward the work from the young cast call for action last year. A lot of fantastic work from Egypt Bangladesh Netherlands Malawi St Lucia and others. We're very keen to keep pushing that forward to tangible progress and and a focus on disaster preparedness and the response to natural disasters. So as presidency we in the UK will work very closely with the U F U and F triple C with Chile Italy and a wide range of state and non state actors the engagement with non state is it is incredibly important. And so to make it a genuinely inclusive and whole of society Cobb that's where we need to link in with the various youth groups the full range of young people across the across the world. And I think the the challenge from cut out. You know this cannot be tokenistic this needs to be very genuinely amplifying and showcasing the solutions and I love the focus that a lot of speakers have had on solutions and the opportunities for solutions that are being led by young people. You know we're very keen to learn from the experience that a lot of you have had engaging with cops in the past about how we can do that and what the the best ways that we can do to give you the the capacity to be able to showcase those those solutions. I mean we're working some of the practical things we're doing as the presidency we're working with the Italian government will be hosting the youth event and pre cop in Milan. And that will bring together a 400 or so delegates just ahead of cop 26. The cop president designate so Alex Sharma he's established a youth and civil society round table that's going to be coached by two young people. So we're using that as one of the roots for engaging with civil society in our plans we're working with young go and you and F triple C on on our preparations right from the, you know the practicalities of putting on the event itself and having ensuring access for all communities. Josh your question about how we ensure participation, you know when virtual engagement is not possible for all is it is a very very strong one and one we are very alert to. And is why we are we are planning towards a physical cop based in Glasgow where the engagement of indigenous communities and young people is incredibly important. We'll obviously try and learn lessons from the use of virtual as well. So we can augment and make it even more even more accessible. So I think I mean I heard some of the questions as well raising challenges around access to finance. Which so access right to the local kind of levels of climate finance that's incredibly important it's something we hear very strongly. And UK is doing some specific things around, for example the life AR program, but more widely we're committed to work with donors. So donor countries with the multilateral development banks and national development banks, the various climate fine funds to make sure that finance is more accessible. And, and some questions around access to education again will work very closely with the action for climate empowerment and the work around natural national strategies on that that really, really important challenge and where we can be doing more please just want to hear from your experiences. So just a few things picking up there from from the comments. And again, thanks very much for asking me and Nikita to be part of this. We're really keen to keep this going as a dialogue and really to learn from the experiences you've had about about how to make these international events and cops, genuinely inclusive. Thank you. Great. Thank you very, very much, much for for that excellent remarks. I will just take some few minutes to give sort of a summary of what I've heard so far from our panelist. And afterwards we get into a dialogue where we'll be looking at participants here to provide solutions and sort of talk about how you see things moving forward to then sort of advice. In the course of 2016 the GCN other organizations here, who are hoping to put in their efforts and resources to put young people at the heart of their work. And you can already see Mike already put some questions in the chat, which is supposed to help you start thinking around solutions that you can offer. I see your hand raised going to come to you in a minute. But before we move on, this is what we've had so far. So Mike started by giving an overview of the commitment and dedication of the GCN, the team behind it, as well as the Global Commission on Adaptation. The work they've done over the past two years with key focus on education advocacy connects and innovates with focus again on not just connecting young people to young people, but also putting young people in touch with policymakers and influences. And this is something that the GCN is working on. Quickly also talking around how it's not just youth as a different in outside of the work of the GCN, but rather making it part of the overall work. And typically many organizations will have a youth program, which is separate from the way they do. And I really like that in this case is more central to all the activities. So thanks for that, Mike. Quickly to Karina mentioned how she is putting in a lot of effort to bring in private sector partners. You mentioned about sort of 100 companies coming in, providing spaces for young people to come and learn from these companies, but also the company providing the space to train young people. And I think that really corresponds to the remarks we received from South Asia, from Africa, and also from Europe around providing resources and space where people can have access to opportunities and opportunities that are not just tokenizing them, but really giving them the skills to move towards implementation. So that was really awesome. Then we had Matt who talked about how the COP26 team is making themselves ready for all the consents you have around youth engagement. But I really like is also that he is here together with Nikita and the team to listen to what you think should be the best approach, but more significantly he's made it very concrete that it's not just sort of meeting with people who have the means to, but again providing to indigenous communities and other minorities to be present at the COP to be able to interact physically, which I think is very, very important for the audience here. There are still questions which are not resolved yet and I'm very keen on this, and I know there are no straight answers to some of these questions, but I'm looking at the chat. I'm looking at the conversation that are happening and I'm picking on two things which are very, very critical and I think you've participated here will perhaps have some responses to this. The issue of migration refugee crisis, political instability, and how the climate adaptation process itself and climate engagement can help resolve these issues. So how do we link migration, political instability refugee crisis to the way that the climate adaptation community, and this is not just a question to GC or just a question to COP26, but also to everyone. And I will introduce Adriana Valenzuela, who have a long history with a UNFCCC. If you have anything about UNFCCC you have her here, you can shoot out here, and she will try to respond to that. But Adriana's role today is to help us think about or help you to really talk about your best practices to provide responses to her. And so she'll be asking about some challenges she has seen with youth engagement over her long years of working with the UNFCCC and try to get you to provide her and the audience here, what you think should be done. And to do that, Adriana will go on with her questions. Also, Mike already put some questions in the chat. We're going to have a format as to how people respond to the questions if you want to do this verbally. So the format is we're going to have selected individuals Desmond and Lubinua within the South African region, Nujang Rai, South Asia, also Indigenous community representative, Nishat from the Middle East, and Manau Bida from North Africa. So these four individuals will also give their remarks. I've noted Amad, who has his hands raised, and also a colleague from India, Tashwan, who is also going to give remarks. So Adriana, please over to you. Hello, Joshua. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, everyone. It's a pleasure to be with you today. As Joshua mentioned, I joined the UNFCC Secretary seven years ago, and I have been managing the agenda on Action for Climate Empowerment that is about education, training, public awareness, public access to information, public participation and international cooperation, but also as part of this agenda, youth empowerment is central. I am delighted also to see Mike and the other colleagues from GCA as well from the upcoming COP26 presidency. Before I move to the questions, let me just share very briefly what has happened in the UNFCCC process and how youth have helped to shape this international agenda. The Paris Agreement is this universal agenda that provides the general framework about what needs to be done on climate change, and this universal agenda highlights importance to promote no only mitigation but also adaptation. And the Paris Agreement recognized one of the key principles is intergenerational equity, and also article 12 of the Paris Agreement recognized that if we don't raise awareness, if we don't empower every person to take part of the solution, we will not be able to address this challenge. Climate change is one of the biggest challenges, but also provides an opportunity. And as you said, there are many questions, and the questions, the responses will be joined co-design, what we can do. Also, 2020 is a very crucial year. Why? Because, as Matt said, parties are reviewing the national determinate contributions that are action plans and COP24 in Katowice, the parties agree the Katowice package that is the action plan for the Paris Agreement. And this decision highlights the importance of youth participation in climate action and also invite countries to include the topics of education and training, public awareness, public access to information as part of the national determinate contributions, as part of the national adaptation plans, but also any other climate policy. And we have seen many youth organizations and youth leaders participating at the national level to try to contribute and to update this agenda. One of the key points is that the COP25 presidency, Chile, include these elements and they are going to design this national strategy. But also, 2020 is a crucial year because there is a global program on ACE and governments are reviewing this global program. And they are going to define a global program to be adopted next year at COP26. And it's about what can we do to raise awareness, to promote climate education, to make information available and how youth can contribute in this process. Then I am delighted to be here. And I think that you, you have the passion, the creativity, and you also are the ones that are implementing solutions at all levels. And for that, I would like to get back to you. And to know a bit more about what good practices do you know, either in your city, in your country, or also you can be aware of other good practices in other countries around the world. Then what good practices do you know about public engagement, especially engaging youth as part of the climate solutions. The second question that I have for all of you, and then you just start thinking, is what are the challenges that you are facing. We know that you are passionate. We know that you have, you want to participate. But what challenges are you facing when you try to lead climate action. Another question and maybe the most important is what do you need. And we heard already, we need education, we need capacity building, but what more do you need to really become this adjudge of change and lead adaptation solutions in your communities, in your cities and in your countries. Then three questions, good practices, challenges, and also your needs. Then over to you, Joshua. Thanks very much, Adriana, very concrete questions. I'm not going to take any further time. I'm going to pass it on to the lineup of you speakers who are going to contribute to this. So quickly to you Desmond. You can choose to answer any of these three key questions. And afterwards I will take Murang and I will also like to say that beyond these three questions. There were also concrete questions again from Mike, which were also in the chat. And if you have responses to this as well, you can please respond to that. Desmond, over to you. Thank you very much, Joshua. I'm really glad to be here and to meet everyone here. With respect to these questions, I think that we, when we come to the issue of climate adaptation, we probably would not have so many of success stories to share. But then when you look at the micro level, we have seen examples of how especially the private sector have succeeded by integrating young people into their leadership structure, putting young people into how they design and implement projects. And then with time, they do not need to do so much work to actually provide the next steps. But then that is also where another missing gap is because when it comes to policy level, we realize that, like it is already noted, private sector young people are kind of missing at the formulation stage, which is very crucial because if they are missing at the formulation stage and a lot of young people are scattered around in every country implementing and doing education, it means that they are not able to even do it according to what national plan has. And that is where I think we need to look at. When it comes to youth engagement, like my question first, I think that if you want to engage young people effectively and inclusively, we first of all, one thing, one option is to train a number of young people from different communities and give them the opportunity to go back and also further train their colleagues and keep the momentum on. But this can only happen with commitment. But even on top of that, what is also required is to find a very strategic way to streamline young people into the national policymaking process. Because that is where I see the main gap. When we look at the indices of South Saharan African countries, we realize that most of the processes were engaged at the sector level, and these sector levels do not have young people among them. How do you get the young people include their voices? So even if we train these young people and they have the confidence to do an independent consultation, their work might not be seen credible by national leaders because they are not in the structure where these decisions are taken. And I think one last thing that I would like to talk about is when it comes to the issue of how to ensure that community level implementation happens and then it can trickle down to support the prevention of migration, climate-related migration and wars. The thing is that we need to look at the current problems and convert them into solutions. If you realize so many of the youth and the youth networks that are scattered around, what they do is to try to digitalize. They are trying to innovate. Some of them are improving soil biodiversity and some of them are converting so many of the resources that are discarded into goods that can be used because climate change has affected their areas of living. So let's look into how do we make sure that we identify these organizations and then capitalize on these initiatives that are originated or that they themselves initiated and then we give them the opportunity to explore more and to expand. I think with this we might have a good start. Thank you. Thank you very much. That's one very concrete point. I'm going to give an overview later on. I'm trying to make sure we give enough room for people to really speak. So I'm going to move on to the next speaker. Alright, South Asia Indigenous representative of the youth adaptation network. Please go ahead. Thank you so much, Rasha. Hello everyone. My name is Nyangai. I'm a 19-year-old PSC-Everybody student and I'm currently serving as a program intern at White Feet Foundation, also Youth Environment Education and Development Foundation, which is an organization that especially focuses on Indigenous communities, women, children as primary stakeholders for the community. So I will try to answer the question given by Adriana with trying to focus especially on the Indigenous community. So Indigenous communities, they live in harmony with nature and depend upon agriculture as the main occupation. So definitely climate change and all the crisis has affected all the groups equally, but I believe it is the Indigenous community that are more affected, that are adversely affected by it. So the different generations in the Indigenous community have different ones, different priorities and different needs. So I studied the research, one of the research done by Donald Michael University, which said that when you look at, when you research from the bottom of community, you realize they're concerned. When you talk bottom position, one might ask how will the two-degree climate change affect Indigenous communities? Whereas when you are researching from bottom to up community, you realize the concern might be smaller than a two-degree change, like what will happen to their crops when the rain is delayed by week. So a week or two delays in the rain might not affect so much in the urban areas, the urban farmers, but a week delay in the rain for the Indigenous farmers, it affects them adversely. They depend upon traditional farming in the 21st century, modern world, and the delay in the week affects their crops, which is their livelihood. It affects the whole year. So think about how that delay affects their poor income. They can barely make their living, and like Adriana already said, quality education. We must focus on quality education, but that is not the only answer. Policymaking. So we must, I believe like we must include Indigenous community in policymaking, in research and everything like, since Indigenous community, they work closely with the environment, they are close with environment, so they know more about the minute changes happening in the environment. Since their whole life depends upon, since they sustain their whole life upon agriculture and the resources around them, the flora and faunas around them, I believe they will be more cautious, they will be more helpful in researching, which might help to create a climate crisis, which might help reduce climate crisis. So that is it. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you very, very much. Very useful for the conversation. Quickly, I will take Nisha Shafi from the Middle East Arab youth climate network. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Josh. Thank you, Anna. Thank you for giving us opportunity to speak from here from the Arab country. I just want to be very precise in terms of adaptation, like I mentioned in the consultation that young people are very far away from the real conversation. We need to bring more young people and this part of the world adaptation is not a key component discussed even in the climate sphere. In terms of the government capacity building, there are a lot has to be done and I think even our government conversation are far away from adaptation. So I think young people have a great way to engage and getting into young people like Arab youth climate, that would be a great way to engage in the local community, that adds an advantage because we are very much connected with the local community. In terms of good practices, I would say engaging community-based activities would be a great way, engaging in the Gulf Arab countries where most of the things are done by government, when community doesn't play a crucial role. So this was also I shared during our conversation during the adaptation consultation that we are left out because they feel it's a government engagement, which is now falling apart. But in the Gulf countries, you can see that the government feels young people and community has a great role to play in terms of environmental climate change. And moving on to how you can do, you know, it's not only capacity building and funding and also long-term, you know, no stock taking of what has been done because some of the time you start program and you don't know what has been achieved so far. So there is no stock taking sort of any program in the past. So that would be a key objective to find out what has been done end of the year or probably a year around survey or something like that should be done. Beyond that, I think engaging governments, when it comes to the Gulf States, especially the GCC countries, I believe pushing the government to engage with young people would be a key objective. Even from the COP26 team, I would think the Italian embassy or not through their sub-government, then our embassies can be engaging young people here because civil society space are very low in our country. So that would be a great way to keep the programs going on and engagement at youth level. Thank you very much, Nisha. Thank you very much. Quickly, I really like the point on long-term stock taking. That is largely missing in all the youth work that has been happening. It's very, very difficult to keep track on who came last year, what did they say, who is saying what this year, how do we make sure that there's consistency. It's a really great point on that, Nisha. Really thanks for that. Quickly, let me take Manal Bida from the Africa Youth Climate Hub, representing the North Africa region as well. Thank you, Joshua. First, I would like to thank you all to send the GCA for organizing this wonderful event. Let me first express how grateful, how thankful, and how honored I am here to be here among you today. I was very inspired by the youth interventions earlier at the beginning of the session, and even I was really inspired by the interventions in the chat in the comments. It's always hard for me to see that young people are taking the lead for action. I would like to start off my intervention and make it very short by a quote I heard from an Nigerian colleague a few months ago. He said, it always seems that the least predicted are always the most affected, and I totally agree with that the African continent is currently the most affected by climate change and will be the most affected by it in the years to come. But far from just being victims, young people here in Africa are taking the lead for action. They are driving their communities, and they are driving the climate adaptation agenda. I personally have witnessed that many, many times. And recently, two weeks ago, I had the energy facility, a different session of the webinar organized by the GCA to launch the youth adaptation network in Africa. And it was truly surprised and very shocked to see that African African youth are driving actions, despite the financial problems lack of technology lack of capacity buildings and so on. Today I would like also to propose solutions, some solution I see that can solve and that can enhance youth participation involvement in climate change adaptation. First, I would like to emphasize on education climate change should be included in education personally, I would never ever get involved in climate action if I had not learned about it in the school elementary school when I was eight years old. I knew by climate change and since then I have been interested by it and I have got involved. And if I had not studied about that at that time, I would perhaps never get involved in climate action adaptation and so on. Another thing I would like also to propose a solution in terms of policy making a decision making, perhaps the problem that is currently happening in North Africa, and also in other parts of the world is the lack of trust and communication between governments and young people. We see that governments are still not trusting young people in terms of decision making and so on. And here the solution for me, I wouldn't, I don't blame governments or adults for doing that because every one of us would not risk something new. The solution here is in the hands of young people. We are currently showing that we are strong. And if we continue our action just like this, if we continue and show the governments and the adults and the decision makers and national leaders that we can make decisions that we are able to do that, that we are strong enough to make the right and very correct decisions. And for sure that trust in that communication will increase by time. That was it. I really hope that was kind of helpful. And thank you again for organizing this wonderful event. It was truly a pleasure to be here among you. Thank you very, very much, Manar. That was really inspirational and awesome representing the Africa written in the consultations that took place. Really appreciate that. Quickly I will take Tapaswani who was from India and wants to really emphasize on the need for research. Quickly to you. Hello everyone. I'm Tapaswani Sharma from India, and I'm a member of Yungo and the Youth Adaptation Network. We are all the world is experiencing the effects of climate change and so is India. And in the climate change report, it was also mentioned that in the past few decades, the temperature has increased by 0.7 degrees Celsius. And this will continue to increase if we do not take appropriate action now. And this increase in temperature is also affecting food security, the availability of fresh water resources and even public health. And so I believe that in order to efficiently combat climate change, we need new innovations and new innovations best come from young people, students and the youth. So a lot of young students don't even have the access to internet. So the question that I have is how do you plan to reach out to these students? And one proposal that I would that I also have as being a research oriented student, I believe that all students should be involved in major, minor research projects to help them get a better perspective and a better look on what is exactly happening in the world in terms of climate change. Thank you. Great. Great. Thank you very much. I'm very mindful of time and they're very limited on time right now, even though we have still a lot to talk about what I'm going to do is that please use the chat function and put in a lot of your ideas as much as possible. For the next five minutes before we wrap up the conversation and jump off, I'm going to sort of talk about some critical things which have come up, which will also make young that they use because you really see what they think and what could happen next. We had a lot of conversation around education, train of trainers sort of getting people to represent at the community level and expand on ideas. This is really brilliant. I know the GCU adaptation that has a strategy in place for looking to issues. So, Mike, if you want to sort of highlight this a little bit, please, you can do so in a few seconds. What I'm also trying to do is I know that we have other stakeholders on the call. I see WWF Netherlands. I know IED website here. I know ECAD website here. I'm going to open up the floor a few minutes for these other institutions. If you have anything to say to sort of contribute to the conversation on how we address these issues, that would be really, really brilliant. And then we will take final words and we will be out of here. So please mind with us for the next five minutes so we can do this. And thanks to Karina and Matt who joined us earlier and had to leave because of the time. Quickly, Mike, do you want to mention or talk quickly about what GCU is going to do about this train of trainers toolkit idea adaptation champions? Yeah. It's too short a time to really give it due justice, but just to say that we want to do a train of training process, working at the community level, but not on our own, working with partners to do this. So there's a lot of great tools, not great resources out there. And so actually hearing from the colleague you just mentioned, Josh, is perfect and hearing ideas from this call is also really kind of incredibly useful. And thank you so much. I saw a colleague in from the Scouts, for example, we had a very good conversation with the second general of the International Scouting Association movement about how we can work with them on their environmental program. So there's lots of different avenues and lots of different partners we can work with to make sure that adaptation is inserted into the into the schemes already there and to kind of try and when you get to know the introduction new schemes. Thank you very much, Mike. I'm looking at I see representative from WWF Netherlands. Is there anything you would want to contribute to this? Sorry, I find the camera lost. Hi. Thank you very much. Yeah, well, thank you all for a contribution. I think it again shows how important is to look towards the future, not only looking about adaptation and impact for youth and indigenous peoples local, but also the environment people depend on. I think it's, there is a lot going on and what we see and we're currently working on programming also that is focused on movements on a group of young groups of young people finding each other, including in the Netherlands where we also see it is going on a lot of people have opinions and we were exploring, for example, collaboration with the young youth movement or bringing together all kinds of youth groups in the Netherlands, not just for education and capacity strengthening, but also pulling those forces together for actual influencing politicians in the Netherlands of making those statements, engaging in SD discussions. So I think that's really important. And that is not just happening in the Netherlands. It's happening worldwide. I think just giving a push and a platform for these kind of movements is important and what we also want to try to support more and engage and see more. So take, yeah, take more where you can. Great. Great. Thank you very, very much. We have, I mean, we have over time, two minutes over time, but let's manage that. Quickly, I see in the chat that some green from IED and Anne, she would have provided options to further the conversation. This is amazing. So please, if you have stories, projects that you're working on, on adaptation, please send them to Anne. She's posted her email address in the chat to make it possible for us to share the work you do. And to further the conversation, you can join the Hoover app. There's details provided in the chat for us to take this conversation forward. Thank you everyone for coming. Adriana, I'm just going to come back to you to give me a feeling of your satisfaction to the answers you got to your questions. Thanks a lot, Joshua. I think that every time that I participate in any youth consultation, I always get inspired, and I think that is what is needed at this point of time, you know, working in the multilateral process and knowing how important have been to achieve the Paris Agreement and the SDGs. Now we have the challenge of implementation, and I think every one of you can play an important role, and I would be very happy to join GCA very soon in October, and to support all your initiatives. I think that what we need to do is establish this partnership to build already on what exists around the world. And the most important is, it is the generation that can make a change. Many people say that you are the leaders of the future, but I think that you are the leader of the present, and we need to establish this intergenerational partnership and to support different initiatives and really looking forward to continue working with all of you from the GCA. Then congratulations for this wonderful consultation. And I think it's just the beginning. It's a very exciting agenda, and there will be many activities that will be organized, then back to you, Joshua. Great. Thank you very much, Adriana, and we look forward to welcoming you at the GCA. I think you're already here with us. We look forward to welcoming you at the GCA in October. I'm going to pass it on to Ana, who will wrap up the event by showing the way that we've been doing with young people briefly with sort of a one slide on how many people have been talking to and what partners we've been working on in the youth program. And I will also please plead with colleagues, Lynn, if you can do the poll again, if it's really that we get people to fill the poll again, you can do that. But quickly, Ana, please show the work that we've been doing with youth partners who are already on the call, and we will wrap it up. Thank you. Thanks, Josh. Lynn, if you can share the presentation, please. So, here's for all of you. I'm extremely, first of all, I'd like to say that I'm extremely happy with this consultation and working with you. As Josh said, I'm really happy to see a lot of known faces here today. And this map shows exactly what we have been doing just two weeks time. And I can say that I'm super excited and super proud of the work we have been doing with the youth partners that are here today with us in this call. We managed to have now I just looked to the numbers again, almost 700 people, part of the young from more than 100 countries all over the world. I think this is a great achievement for us that are starting to work within the GCA. And for you guys that work with us in our consultations, we said that one of the most important aspects would to be to build up our programs in a known tokenistic way. And this consultation of today and the consultations we have been doing with you. It's just to show that we really take it serious. And this is just the beginning, as Adriana said, for a lot of nice work that we will be doing together and we will do our best to facilitate and to put young people in the same table and to be considered as same stakeholders in the adaptation agenda, as we always say in our talks in our consultations. So I think this is a great way to wrap up here to show that we are all in this together and we are going to move it forward. So thank you so much and looking forward for the next steps. Thanks, Josh. Great. Thank you very much. I'm looking at Lynn. Do we want to do the poll again? If not, we can take a group photo and then the session. Great. So the poll will come up again. I mean, we feel this in the beginning, but I guess some people joined later so you can quickly fill this in a few seconds and then we take a group photo and we end the call. And if you want to join the youth adaptation network, I'm going to put a link in the chat and I will do that. If you click on this link, you can sign up for the youth adaptation network. And I think I can actually do the group photo while we fill the poll. It shouldn't interrupt it. So let's do that. If you can put your cameras on, I will really appreciate that. And I'll make a group photo with everyone. Great. Okay. The difficulty is trying to get everyone on the screen, which is really difficult because we have more than, more than many. Just take three. I've got three screens of people. So you need to kind of like take one by one. Okay, first shot. Great. Perfect. Now I'm going to take the second shot with different people. Great. Second shot. Please smile. I see Juliette putting your camera on now. I'm going to give you some seconds. Brilliant. Great. I have the second shot. And now the last shot. So everyone has to smile the entire time. Great. I see Kasim. Okay. Brilliant. So now we are done. Thank you everyone for coming. Really appreciate it. And we will follow up with you on some of the activities that will come out of this consultation and this intergenerational dialogue. I hope you enjoyed it. And please, you have the emails of the speakers in the chat. Please get in touch with them if you have any inputs. And we hope to work with you on the youth adaptation network. Thank you very much.