 So, I'm sorry, dear colleagues, we should start. It will be no live streaming, but it will be after uploaded the video. So good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to this panel discussion on the crucial role of the global, global. What is global? Global, it's global water analysis laboratory network. It was launched by our director general, Rafael Grossi in UNWATER conference in New York. It's address gaps in water-related data and information and sharing knowledge and transferring this knowledge and technology. Today, we have esteemed experts from various fields who will show us and share us experience on progress made on water management, on data, on cooperation, on networking. Before introducing our guests and panelists, please let open this discussion with the video message of our director general, Rafael Grossi. We are living through a crisis. We are living through a crisis and a pollution crisis. They both have an impact on water availability and water quality. Although countries and regions are affected differently, the world is far off track in achieving SDG-6 on clean water and sanitation. But there are things we can do. The IEA has over 60 years of experience supporting countries in generating reliable national water data using nuclear techniques. We use this data to determine the size and location of water sources and the origins of groundwater recharge. We can trace earth pollutants and assess the impact of climate change. We want to bring this capacity to all countries. As part of the UN Water Action Agenda, we are advancing the IAEA's new Global Water and Water Laboratory Network, GLOAL, to support countries in achieving SDG-6. National water laboratories are the cornerstone of a country's ability to manage its water resources and to develop strategies for climate change, adaptation, and mitigation. Through the GLOAL network, countries will be able to generate their own water data to better understand their water resources, strengthen national water resource governance, and increase the resilience of their water supply. We are improving the analytical capacity of regional and national water laboratories and fostering cross-boundary collaboration on transboundary resources. That's how we enable more effective mitigation and adaptation strategies to address climate change and build trust through transparency. We're not only working with countries, but also at UN agency and organizations' levels. Our initial target regions are Latin America, and the Caribbean, and Central Asia. Many countries in these regions are at the forefront of climate change. The ultimate goal of the GLOAL network is to ensure that countries across the globe have the skills and the capacity to meet the water demands of current and future generations. Join us in supporting the GLOAL network and protecting our precious water resources. So now I can introduce our panelist. So today with us is His Excellency, Mr. Juan Francisco Faceti. He is a resident representative of UN Permanent Mission of the Republic of Paraguay to the International Atomic Energy Agency. We have also Mr. Johannes Kuhlmann, who is UN water vice chair. We have with us Ms. Ruth Spencer, she's advisory board member for the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration and UN Civil Society of Women from San Jones Antigua and Barbuda. Also we have with us Martin Krause, our director of technical cooperation. And for closing here we have a special guest, Her Excellency Bonnie Dennis Jenkins. She's undersecretary for arms control and international security United States of America. So thank you for joining us today and let me to start from the first question. I'm sorry, I'm just talking a little bit. I don't know. And Honorable Mr. Faceti, Global Network, it was published to address the global need for improved water analysis and monitoring would enable countries to generate own data and to improve the water management. Please, could you tell us what on which role on global can play for Paraguay? Thank you very much, Mrs. Vistana. Thank you very much for organizing this event, which is absolutely important in these times of climate crisis as it was mentioned by the DG Grossi. And thank you for inviting me to share this moment with such a remarkable persons that are also very much involved in this issue. Yeah, for Paraguay, I would like to tell you that 93% of our exports, 93% are directly and directly linked to water. Water is the resource for, you know, it's the raw material, I would say, to produce energy. Paraguay is the largest producer and exporter of clean energy per capita in the world. We are exporting our hydroelectricity to Brazil and Argentina. So we are very much, this export is very much dependent to water and also we provide food for 80 million people. We are only 5, 6.5 million people, but we provide food for 80 million people. So, and this food is coming from the agriculture as well as the cattle racing and other kind of cattle. So water for us is absolutely, it's our resources that we have to pair and protect. But also, you know, we have a law approved in 2000 that establish or regulate the use of water and also provide some priorities for us. These priorities are, first of all, water for drinking, drinking water, and water for, I mean, water coming from the environment and for the nature, from the nature and for the nature, water for industry, and water for production, for agriculture, and as I mentioned, to cattle racing. And so we need, under these priorities, we need to establish and we need to build a data baseline, very strong, very robust in order to, based on that, prepare our guidelines, for instance, or standard guidelines for water quality, standard for waste water or effluence. So this is one very important objective and goal that we have. Secondly, we are sharing, and this is also extremely important for us. My country is sharing one of the most important wetlands in the world, which is the Pantanal. We are sharing this water resources with Brazil and Bolivia. We are sharing also the largest, one of the largest aquifers in the world, which is the Aquifer Warani, which has a very good quality, water quality for drinking and we are sharing also other fresh waters with other countries. So we cannot build absolutely an environmental policy, a national environmental policy without taking care of what our neighbors are doing with these resources also. So we need to establish a dialogue with them, based on that, this dialogue has to be based in evidence and what kind of evidence we are talking about, water quality datas. So we need to have also this water quality data baseline and to build this, we need to have an update or up-to-date laboratories, capacities, soft and hard technology, I mean soft is the human resources and the hard technology is the equipment used in the laboratories. We need to have also policy, policies and or tools of policies like these guidelines and also we need to have capacities in order to understand all these data. And so for that, we need and also train people of course and finally, based on my experience, I was Director General of the National Institute of Technology and Standards in the 90s. I was Minister of Environment of my country. So I worked a lot with some agencies of the UN system and I can tell you, I can tell all the audience that the most qualified agency that has, that can reach all the regions of the world and has the capacity is developing technology and techniques is developing procedures and protocols is developing reference standard materials and has a very strong technical cooperation and structure is the International Atomic Energy Agency. So for me, from my point of view, the most qualified and competent agency within the UN system is the International Atomic Energy Agency to build this global network. And through this global network, the agency can be a very important support for our countries in order to create what I said capacities at the domestic level and also promote this dialogue between other laboratories in other countries and in order to exchange capacities, exchange knowledge and fulfill with this objective that is envisaged and is defined by the DG grossing. Thank you, sorry for being so extent. Thank you very much because how you show it's a national level, all importance of global but we are trying to bring to our member states. And also thank you so much because you mentioned something very important here about the data. We can manage better something what we understand without data we cannot understand it better. And this was the highlights of UN Water Conference in New York. And here I would like to ask Johannes Kuhlman who is one of the leader in the UN organizations and have experienced this organization but also their participation in UN Water, Johannes. Please could you provide us with the overview of the importance of the addressing gaps in water related data and information and how this subject is covered in the agenda of UN Water-related agencies. Yeah, thank you Julia. Hello everybody. I think I want to start from what we want. I think what we all want and what you have talked about is resilience or is a system is a country that can provide the services and the livelihoods that or the conditions for livelihoods and security that the people want to have. So we want to have resilience. We want to especially have that because we know our boundaries are so changing now. So I don't know that 50 years ago we thought the world we live in is a stationary process. Now we know it's not the case. And so we need to rethink our systems that are all targeted to, okay, this is a stationary system. And if I have a problem, I just provide from the outside a different input into my system and networks. But now with climate change and with population growth and with water demand we are at a situation where this model doesn't work anymore. We cannot just go somewhere else and get some more that we have understood that now. And to provide now management schemes or different ways how sectors and countries can work together to provide resilient water management solutions, we need to first and foremost know how is the water resource changing in quality and quantity over time? And how can we create systems that can provide storage function or cleaning function, natural cleaning or infrastructure to clean water, to supply clean water in the right place at the right time? And to do that, we need to understand this water cycle and to model it for prediction. For understanding the water cycle the global provides this one best chance to validate how old the water is and how long it stays where. If we don't know that we cannot appropriately plan for water security for the future because we plan with X amount of water. We want to have that also in the future but we don't know that of this X amount, the half was maybe fossil or is not renewable or so. And this is exactly why we are using the isotope analysis and why global is so important in this regard. And then we also need that for validating climate models or global hydrological models for having the right compartments in our models. We cannot use any extrapolation and any forecast into the future if we don't know which compartments we are addressing. If it's a black box model, an empirical thing where we don't know how that water changes we will predict something that is likely not going to be realized in 30 years or so. That's number two. And number three, I think you have already alluded to that is the potential of something like the global for countries to come together across, I don't know, political divides and we had that in New York in the water conference. We had countries talking about a global water information system or community that are coming from very far ends of the geopolitical spectrum. But it creates a chance for people to work together on something that provides a benefit on the global scale. So I think this is a little bit the gaps that I see, the understanding and knowledge, the prediction and the peaceful cooperation on topics that are not, yeah, that are mutually beneficial for all. So first, I should stop here, I think, Julia. Very much so, cooperation is important. Networking is important. I think everyone agrees here what networks makes us stronger. But we have scientists, we have policy makers, but what about society? Please can now I address the next question to Ruth. Ruth, civil society expert. How will human rights process guide the water conversations and become fully integrated in the international, international, and regional level? Thank you. I'm from a small island and everything connects. So water is a key nexus to food, health, so many things production. And you know that the UN passed a resolution that human rights agreement, everyone has rights to a clean, healthy environment. And without water, you're going to be dirty. You're going to have poor health sanitation problems. That's what forced me to start working with communities, with water, because the nurse of a major clinic called me and said, I'm seeing too many, you know, impact in children, the older ones, from not having water. And the island has traditionally suffered from drought, not enough water. And if you go into the archives, because when I'm doing the research with the groups, we go into the archives. And since in the 1890s, the British built five reservoirs on the island in strategic places where the soils and natural infrastructure was well suited. And because of the ongoing drought in the island, we started to restore these reservoirs. And we didn't know where they were because over the years they weren't used and a lot of trees and vegetation covered them. But the older heads told us where they were and we started to clear. And we found that all these reservoirs had no quack, but the covers, the reservoir covers were all rusted, the galvanized and the spillways that took the water to the reservoirs were all covered with trees. But we have been restoring them. So I'm not going to blame climate change for our water problems. I think it has resulted from poor planning. You know, you don't. Right now we have no groundwater resources. Our wetlands are in deplorable states. Actually, our landfill is in a wetlands and you can imagine everything is thrown there, e-waste. So the very mangroves are degrading. So our focus for water is on the soils. We have to build soils. To enable that filtration, that purification of the water. And the community groups, they don't have a lot of funds but our mindset is the circular approach. So what we have been doing, like waste, organic waste, everybody likes a nice lawn. So you see people taking the lawn mower, the weed rockers and all the grass is pushed aside. But we would go and pick it up and we take it to our gardens, to our plots and we spread it out. All the leaves that fall, we use it. All the fish guts, you go to the market. The people are selling the fish when they're doing with the guts nothing. We bury all these things. And that has been helping our soil. And it also increases the water hold in content of the soil. So when the rains come, the waters can go down. So this is how communities have been adapting to the drought because when schools have to close, many times there's no water. If you follow my country and the news, maybe two, three days a week you have water. It's really the week. We have transition to desalination but there's a major cause with desalination. Electricity costs and the technical work with the location of these desal plans was not perfected. And you're hearing all kinds of problems. You have to change membranes. One membrane costs 8,000 US. So it's just sucking out money out of the government's treasury. So we are in a dilemma for the local people how they're trying to adapt. Those stories are not being told in our national reporting. And sometimes I wonder what the data is going out when you don't include your local stakeholders, especially the local groups. They're not viewed as stakeholders. The government sees the Chamber of Commerce, the unions as the stakeholders but the local people who are on the ground, on the front line seeking to protect the very ecosystems because we have hoteliers, we have investors giving protected areas for the investment. One of the cost and mangrove, so the local people have to cry out, you hear them on the radio. I have mentioned to my partner here, my country ratified the Eskizu Agreement. Does anybody know I ever heard about the Eskizu Agreement? The first international human rights agreement for Latin America and the Caribbean. It came out of the 1992 real summer but it took almost 26 years for it to be adopted. So it came into force, 2018. But that agreement basically said, governments alone don't take the answers for environmental problems. You need stakeholders, you need the public. And so we use this agreement which is legally binding push for our inclusion. Give us the information. We don't want to hear something on the radio. The government is bringing in this program or this project. Give us the information, come to our communities, let's discuss it at local ownership and buying otherwise you're gonna have lots of gaps with implementation. So me as a local community representative, I come to these meetings to be a voice. Lots of things are happening locally, but that data. Of course, the conventions, I talk with chemicals and pollutions because we are trying to stop the importation of these chemicals, use for spraying mosquitoes that are killing the pollinators. We have to cook our rice really underground. We know what's in and we have to alert the government. Things are not going right. There's somebody cutting down trees. That's not right. We have laws, but our laws are poorly enforced. So we need this empowerment of the local people. This new knowledge that's needed into our science processes. So this water connection, it cuts across a lot of conventions. Biodiversity, climate, we work with in the oceans, with the Minamata Convention, it's a lot of fish and we have to test it here. We have to, you know, the mothers and the children at risk. Lots of local action going on, but you won't hear about it. So that's a response to that question. We want to be included. Our voices are important in this new era going forward. Thank you. Thank you for highlighting how data important for local people, for local communities. And this is one of the targets of Global to make countries able to generate own data, not only rely on external experts, but also to build very strong internal national capacity. And here we'd like to ask, thank you so much, for Sherry Martin, please. Because we just solve the different problems, especially also on small islands. How agencies support member states in different, solving in different water related problems at national region and even international levels. Thank you, Julia. And hello everybody. The advantage of being the last speaker here on this panel is that I can actually pick up on some of these things that my fellow panelists have said already. And I will start with the ambassador who mentioned that in Paraguay, the IEA is considered to be the most important UN agency supporting the country on dealing with water issues. That is surprising. You might have thought maybe the UN environment program would be the most important UN agency and not the IEA. So we need to think. How come that the IEA is linked to the agenda of climate change, of climate adaptation and of course the water issues? What is that linkage? So if we step back a little bit. You know, the climate crisis is actually a water crisis. Climate crisis manifests itself as a water crisis. If you think about the changing precipitation patterns all around the world, you think about flooding. Even if you think about sea level rise or if you think about the world, the world is nothing else but the sense of water in a way. So the climate crisis, when it comes to livelihoods, when it comes to agriculture, when it comes to industry manifests itself as a water crisis. Now the IEA and Johannes has explained this, I think very eloquently. The IEA is not only the weekly watchdog that is related to the big geopolitics and issues happening there that some of you might have seen our DG speaking on CNN and BBC about all the crisis in the world. But the IEA is much more. The IEA is also an agency that does research and promotes nuclear techniques and technologies such as isotope hydrology techniques that play an important role when it comes to generating data and finding out what is happening to the hydrological cycle, to the water cycle. The water cycle doesn't know any national boundaries. It's transboundary by nature. It's actually a planetary cycle. Remember, I mean, in school, we have learned about the water cycle and all the precipitation that it goes into the river and the ocean and then it's a truly global issue. So to have a technique available, isotope hydrology that allows you to trace water drops, each water drop has a particular fingerprint, if you want that fingerprint can be detected with isotope hydrology techniques. And we can trace the water drops now and much more you have explained this, Johannes, with the age and the flow of water and so on. And that is something very unique and very particular where the IEA comes into play. You also pick up now on something that Ruth has said. You know, what are we doing in the space of water? Yes, a little bit of research, but also capacity building and technical cooperation with countries. Now, what does that mean? Capacity building, of course, means also training of scientists who work in the laboratories. And this is where Global is a network of laboratories comes into play because it is a program to train scientists to help them to manage better those isotopic techniques and so on. But capacity building is much more than training of our scientists. It struck me what you said, Ruth, that not everything can be blamed on climate change. Sometimes poor planning and poor implementation of policies or no enforcement of policies is the root cause of water-related crisis that communities are experiencing. So capacity building and the way we do capacity building is also strengthening institutions so that they have better skills in planning and implementing their agenda. So institutional capacity building, which is very different from transferring knowledge to a particular scientist in a laboratory to handle a particular instrument, it's very different. Institutional capacity building is part of the global agenda. And that is what we do in technical cooperation in the IEA. We help our member states build such capacity so that they can better respond to that water crisis that we are talking about. I will leave it at that, Julia. While and global sounds more similar versus we are addressing the global change now. We are addressing global change from net worth for increasing the capacity for enhancing it through knowledge transfer, for technology transfer, but also to link between people. What is important for us to not to have outside local communities, but what everyone have access to the data and versus capacity is what we are sharing. And here I would like to back to Ambassador Pasetti. Please, can you tell us your vision, how the global network can empower countries to develop water management capacities and support international efforts? I say, as I mentioned, the agency, I mean, countries has needs and the agency can answer, can provide answers to these needs. And as we mentioned, the agency has developed since many years ago, probably 50 or 40 years ago, techniques for isotopic hydrology. The agency has not only the equipment, but also the technique, the protocols. The agency has the experience of transferring these capacities to other regions, to African nations, to Latin American nations, also in Asia, but also the agency has the capacity and the knowledge of putting together experts, scientists, and not only at this level, but also creating an interface where this technical level can discuss the results with politicians, those that are in charge of preparing policies, preparing laws or instruments of policies, such as laws, regulations, et cetera. So these are the needs we have and those are the capacities that the agency has in order to respond to our needs. The agency, from my point of view, also is very efficient because it has already the interface in place for every region of the world. For Middle East, for Asia, for Africa, for Latin America, even for Europe, and in this region, I mean, in these interfaces, experts can discuss their findings. Experts from different countries, from different regions can share also these findings and their knowledge in order to update the capacities of those countries that needs more in order to be able to stand at the same level to discuss policies or to discuss the results in order to build based on these results, build policies and instruments of policies. So this is, from my point of view, the needs we have and also the answers that we need. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you for highlighting needs and also gaps what we need to feel and to reach this level of more or less equal access to all data. So because we have different gaps in capacities and laboratories and data generation. And those gaps have been very discussed on UN Water Conference. Yes, Yaghanze, I think you will confirm it and I would like to ask you, what was the step from this UN Water Conference to now? What was done in this period to fill this gaps what mentioned with our speakers, panelists and at the global scale? Yeah. I think that question has different dimensions. So there is a political dimension or policy dimension to that. And that's because the UN or we are on our planet, 193 member states. So we need to find ways how to motivate and you know that from your governing councils, we know it from ours. And it's a process where you have to agree with the UN system alone. I represent maybe the UN system together with you or so. And then we have maybe other UN people here but the UN system alone cannot resolve anything. It can just catalyze and provide the framework and those interactions and interconnections and empower and help people at the technical level. But it's first and foremost really a question about do we want to do something together in a different way? Because it's not to scale up our efforts and scaling up alone will not work. We need to think about what do we need to do differently in our interrelations between the 193 members because it's clear from the water conference that the hydrological cycle that you've talked about is a global common. It makes no sense to break it down into the German part of it and the Russian part of it. And I talked to some German ministers some time ago and it was a very political, very emotional discussion about Russia. And then I had to tell them, look 80% of the green water Germany exports is actually subsidizing the Russian agriculture. And you cannot deny that fact. You can also not say I don't want it for a political reason. It's the earth system. So what has happened since the conference that 193 member states have agreed that they want to follow up from the conference because it had no negotiated outcome. There is no resolution, there is no negotiation from the conference. It's recommendations that are about the water information that you support the technical aspects. But we have now an agreement that we want to transform a recommendation process into a more, let's agree on something concrete. And together with that comes the development of the UN-wide strategy for water and in bracket sanitation because that's the legacy we have from the Millennium Development Goals. But it's really about mainstreaming water in all the other different discussions and interconnecting the biodiversity, the food, the energy, the climate and water, years of what is one earth system. It doesn't matter which angle you take, you always deal with the same system in the end. So there's now a member state agreement that we need to go beyond and transform the way we work together. And there's a UN process that should help this in terms of developing the strategy. And in the strategy, some of the main catalyzes from what we had before or what we have now, the global acceleration framework for SDG6 are reflected and one of the five is actually data and information where again, the global is a very important part of that. Thank you very much for updating us about processes but also reporting on the results that we achieved till now after UN Water Conference. And here I would like to back to Ruth to continue. So we had a lot of different commitments now that have been done and how you can summarize that, how we can engage local data and local level but everything also will be reflected in different processes. For example, in reporting what mentioned by Johanna, so how we can ensure what local community can take voice there. I'm from a small island state and it's always quoted that one of our vulnerabilities is limited human resources. I don't buy that argument because within our island, there's lots of knowledge. People want to contribute but they're not invited to contribute. When I'm working with the local groups for example, we were building a community system, I need drawings, I need technical drawings to submit. And I would go into a church and I share the project, I share the proposal and somebody's gonna put up their hands and said, I will assist. I got a small grant to install 10 solar panels. I can't do it, I don't have that background. I go on the radio, somebody call me up. I will assist you. So a lot of the work is being in time. People want to contribute but they're not included in the process. So that's why I'm saying HR, the island is full of skilled people. It takes extra work from government to go out to the communities. It's not an eight to four job. You need to vote when the people are there, when on a weekend, an evening, meet with the groups but nobody want to take, to do that extra work. But that's where you see the success. That's where you see the ambition, the energy of the people because they want to be part of nation building. And with all these commitments, I think it's 830 commitments made. Of course, how are you gonna implement without people? We can't get it done, but we need a new outlook. We need a fresh thinking about the value of people, the value of human resources. Right now the JEP Small Grants is the only dedicated funding we have on Island because Antigua is classified as a high income country. And so you're writing to agencies when I talk to my sister there from South Africa, when she tells me all the grants she's been able to. I said, but let me say that because we are high income and a lot of the resources are going to Africa and LDC. So we have to work with in kind and you know, but we are getting things done and we are willing to support the government. I assisted the Department of Environment with their adaptation, accreditation, GCF, they wanted to know what kind of processes, models we were using underground. So we contribute, but when it comes to the implementation, the big design of the programs, we are not really included. And we could do more. The targets are urgent. We have to move with pace and we're willing. And once I, you know, the alarm, you know, we need agenda policy, we need this to work, but if you don't include them, if you don't invite them, you're not going to have, you know, that hasty reception that buying to these processes. So I want people to start seeing the people different. There's more in the people. We just need to bring all that energy and we'll get things done. Thank you, Ruth. Thank you for bringing us this energy. We should always remember about locals. We should always remember about how are they important and for us and also networking, building not only between scientists or between policy matters, we should be integrated in one of the first networks. Thank you so much. And to conclude our events, I would like to invite Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins to give her closing remarks. It's always yours, Bonnie. Well, thank you. Thank you for inviting me and I can say, I've truly enjoyed this panel. I wish it was going on a little longer because I think there's so much here and so much to talk about. So as I said, thank you for inviting me. I know the IAEA very well and all the wonderful work that IAEA is doing, not only on safety security, safeguards, but in all these other areas that is happening with the IAEA. So I commend the work that they're doing and very happy to continue to work with all of you and DG Gross in what he's doing and also looking at the role of the IAEA in supporting, you know, important initiatives like global security needs and also the UN sustainable goals. Which are also important when we talk about glow six and clean water. As we have already heard, there are a few things as essential to our existence as water. Water is life, it is a vital resource that we rely on to protect our health, feed our families, provide energy, grow crops and sustain wildlife and the environment. Feeding the UN sustainable development goal six to achieve universal access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene is central to achieving all of our collective goals. Yet many obstacles remain. De-stabilizing conflicts around the world threaten our precious freshwater resources while climate change further exacerbate stress on those same resources. These dual threats strain economies, worsening inequality and health security and increase the likelihood that access to water may not only fall victim to a conflict, trigger conflict as well. That's why in my role as under secretary for arms control and international security, I am using all the tools at my disposal to address this critical issue. Often people think of the hard security work my staff does to combat weapons of mass destruction. However, our work goes hand in hand with building a more prosperous world. For example, under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the NPT, the United States has made explicit commitments to leverage the peaceful atom to descend. And for over 50 years, we have honored this commitment working bilaterally and multilaterally with the IAEA to leverage nuclear science technology to improve people's lives. For example, we have conducted more than five million, we have contributed more to five million dollars through the IAEA's Peaceful Uses Initiative since 2010 to support IAEA activities that help countries manage cornhole water resources. With unique expertise in isotope hydrology and experience working with member states labs and institutions across sectors, the IAEA is well positioned to help address the water security challenges we see today. Isotope hydrology is a viable tool for collecting the data we need to monitor existing global water resources. It is important that we help countries build capacity for using this tool. It is equally important that we develop standard isotope hydrology data collection techniques and norms so that we can create information sharing platforms that help with comparative data analysis. The United States was proud to participate in the IAEA's launch of the Global Water Analysis Laboratory Network at the UN Water Conference in March. Through the IAEA's Peaceful Uses Initiative, we contribute approximately $650,000 to this global to global including funding for initial coordination activities and expert technical support. The global network will not only support the IAEA's capacity building mission, but will also encourage the standardization of data collection techniques and promote information sharing on a global level. But we must do more. Specifically, we need to work collectively to identify the key data, resources and skills that we need to develop effective climate change resilience strategies, including incorporating the voices of civil society. In partnership with the United Kingdom, the United States launched the Sustain Dialogue of Peaceful Uses in August, 2023 to reduce barriers to access nuclear technologies for peaceful purposes and amplify IAEA programs. With a participant-driven approach, the Sustain Dialogue brings together diverse stakeholders, including national policy makers, the private sector and the broader international development community to identify the most pressing development needs in a region and actionable steps that should be taken to address them with nuclear science and technology. In doing so, we aim to expand the cohort of nuclear champions who appreciate the full potential for nuclear science to play in addressing the UN SDGs. In June, we convened a cadre of experts in Jordan to discuss responsible water resource management in the Middle East and North Africa and heard a clear need for a more robust monitoring network across the region to provide high quality data. We also heard about shared challenges in creating sustainable laboratory programs in Morocco, Tunisia and Jordan, challenges that can be addressed through institutional mentorship like that provided by global. It was clear our partners want global to help build national and regional capacities to understand and manage existing water resources. A key reason for U.S. support to the program. Financial challenges such as those posed by climate change and water insecurity can only be addressed to sustained collaborative efforts. The global network is an essential piece of this effort. The United States is proud to have supported it from its launch this past March and I encourage others in a position to do so to also consider supporting the global network so that together we can forge a better future and work towards a water secure world. And I also wanna mention that my colleagues who are doing the sustained dialogue are actually going to different regions around the world. So I mentioned the ones in Jordan and that region but we're also doing other such engagements. So I just want folks to also know that as well. But just thank you so much. This has been a great panel. I've learned a lot. So thank you for everything you're doing for this very important issue. So thank you. Just to close our panel, I would like to thank Ambassador Bonnet-Enkins for her words, closing remarks. I would like to thank all panelists for this amazing, sharing the amazing experience that helped us to develop better. And thank you auditory but watch us online and thanks to all the colleagues but all other people who are supporting this initiative. Thank you and let's continue together.