 Thanks very much for having me here and thank you for the warm welcome. Unfortunately I don't understand my French. I know German fromage, but that's all. So thank you the minister and thank you Nick and the city of Brussels region for having me over. It's fantastic to be here. I'm here to welcome the Brussels region to our collaborative platform for the C100. The Elmquad Foundation works in two parallel channels. First of all we see the opportunity we assess what is the opportunity of transitioning to a certain economy in a certain market or in a certain material stream. And then we mobilize stakeholders from across the board to start working on it together. What do I mean by that? So first of all when often when we think about waste we just think about the things that are happening and we find in our garbage cans. But actually most of the waste in our systems today is embedded waste. It's one that we don't even think about as waste sometimes. If we look at key urban functions such as mobility, built environment or food systems they're full of waste. And this means that the way that we currently operate them is resulting in great inefficiency and is not so perfect for purpose. We just take an example of the mobility system. 92% of the time our cars are parked in our parking lots. Meanwhile we spent billions building new roads, buying new cars, parking lots, congestion, pollution, whatnot. Opening from our mobility systems is just to help us to get easy, safely and cheaply from one point of the city to the other. So why do we keep wasting money and resources in a way that is not helping us to address mobility in the right way? So that's why we think once we identify this is the opportunity we can save millions and millions and probably millions of euros on mobility systems in the city. And this is just one example. We then bring together the right actress that can help us do that. And if we think about how to address that, we cannot just say we are a city, we have certain regulation opportunities that we can do. Let's regulate our way out of it. Well, it's not the way it works like that. You have to work together with producers, you have to engage the operators, you have to engage the public, the users. And work together on solutions that are making sense for the city and for the region that you're operating in. Address some of these major ways in our system. And design one that is maintaining the materials at the highest value of all time, serve the purpose of the system and helps us to decouple these effective systems away from material intensity and the environmental degradation that is currently happening. So what we do is we bring together governments, cities, big and small businesses, innovators and pioneering universities. And we help them to learn together to build a capacity on what is the survey funding, how does it apply for us. Then they have the opportunity to share in between them what are the challenges that we have, what are the opportunities, where are the links for collaboration. And then really work on these collaborations, try it on the ground because until we get our hands dirty and we manage to bring together the right approaches that is a super purpose in the context that where they operate, that is not going to become reality. And cities are absolutely great targets for this time of implementation and implementation. As you can see we have here some of the cities and the organizations we work with leveling. And some of the most interesting things they do are around the cities. And so we work closely with the city of Toronto which is now, for example, published their public procurement documents. That is looking into how to change public procurement requirements in order to be able to contract vendors on a survey funding basis. Now they cannot do it by themselves because they need to understand which requirements their vendors need in order to create and develop survey funding services and products. So that is where we come in at the facilitated dialogue. Another city that we work with very closely is the city of London. It is probably one of the most prominent partners of the Armadillo Foundation. And together with the city of London we shape the circular economy strategy. And now we are helping to bring them the bigger companies such as IKEA, Backstance and Unilever to collaborate with their innovators community and develop city-based solutions for some of the bigger challenges that these companies are experiencing. For example, with IKEA, IKEA is looking into start leasing them products. But you need to start having some pilot regions where you can try it out, learn and then scale up. The city of London actually also is now building a circular neighborhood which is started as a vision exercise within the foundation and some of our construction and architecture companies. How do we build a circular economy neighborhood? Well, after visualizing a bit back in France, the city actually decided to dedicate some lots in the southwest of London. And many of these companies gathered around and now they are trying to build a circular economy neighborhood. They also managed the circular London also managed to refurbish their entire offices based on circular economy principles using the ecosystem of the businesses of the C100. Using leasing, refurbishing and maintaining and so on. And then one last project that we have just started now is Catalonia and couple of the bigger logistics and chemical companies is to try to reach out to consumers through retail and enable them to separate organic waste and then the city is collecting this organic waste, composting it and it's being used again by the block of producers in the city. This is just a couple of examples how by partnering up cities, regions, governments, businesses and innovators you can create a local service economy that creates new revenue streams, new jobs in the city and enables innovation. These are maybe some of my slides that have been lost on the waste but if you see this ecosystem of the businesses and the institutions that work with the Alameda Foundation you'll spot at least 15 of them are present here in Brussels. And I think that really opens up a great opportunity for creating a local and local collaboration across different sectors in the statistics or built environments, textiles and it also really helps us to build on what you've been doing for so long and what's been mentioned earlier today by Alameda and the Minister. It really brings together the innovation, innovative community that is creating and build capacity over the years as a free strategy. There is a very vibrant community already here of people that are ready to do things, they're excited and have experience of doing it as an economy and we can connect these more crossroads and small media businesses to bigger businesses through our ecosystem. And that's why we're so excited to welcome Brussels on board of the C100s. We think that it's a big small city and it's big enough to have a big presence of businesses and academia and innovators but it's small enough that you can really try out things to scale them up and if you compare it to a city like London that has 12 million people, it takes a long time to change things while when you have a billion and a half people, things can really transition fast. So we're really excited to bring Brussels on board and we're also really looking forward to build on a lot of the work that's been done already. We already started collaborations with our research team to bring more of your experience on board on our research on the city. We also collaborate with the food strategy, a good food team that is part of the region. And we are allowing how the circle of principles can help to meet the priority of the city to reduce food waste, to create, to valorize local material streams and to enable better and healthier food production in the city. So tomorrow I'm going to be having a workshop with the local authorities here and I'm looking forward to see which other parties are coming up and what can we do together with the region and with the ecosystem of the Alameda Foundation in the coming years in implementing big projects here. So thank you very much for having me and looking forward to talking to you all.