 Hi everyone, my name is Myron Bastos Lima, I am a research fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute and I'm here to invite you to our event on the 17th of June in collaboration with the SEI Bioeconomy Initiative on the Politics of Bioeconomy Promotion. During that event, amongst all the discussions we're going to launch, the book I have recently published on the Politics of Bioeconomy drawing from 15 years of experience in Brazil, India and Indonesia as examples of emerging countries, while taking also the chance to look in detail into sustainable development politics in emerging democracies of the Global South. Amongst other things we're going to discuss, the extent to which Bioeconomy Promotion in these countries comes from international debates, such as European policies on biofuels and bioeconomy, and to what extent these are internally driven processes, how different actors in these countries have faced Bioeconomy Promotion to critique it, to support it, to share their views, what those views are, what debates happen within the specific context of those countries, and to what extent there are lessons for global bioeconomy debates. The bioeconomy, while a very important transition, is not one to be taken at face value without examination of the social and political consequences that it entails. We need to assess who wins, who loses, what are the different forms of promoting the bioeconomy because it's not just one thing. We need to learn the lessons from that experience that comes all the way from biofuels more than a decade ago, to the different forms of bioeconomy that are springing as we speak, to understand ways of doing it in more inclusive ways, ways of having a fairer bioeconomy. These are some of the questions we'll be discussing. I look forward to seeing many of you on June 17th. You can learn more about the event and register on SCI.org.