 Distinguished guests on the podium, Chair, friends, ladies and gentlemen, great pleasure to be here. And it is on behalf of one of the Center for Mass Studies, on behalf of the organizers, it is indeed a great pleasure to welcome you all. The community-based adaptations have started with spontaneous actions that ordinary people across the world have been doing as the scientists were talking and establishing that climate change is already here and now, while some politicians have been discussing is there a climate change issue. For most ordinary people, we have done service in Asia, Asia and America, where you talk to a farmer, often they say something isn't right in our life. The seasonality which used to dominate and fix their agricultural calendar is shifting. The pacification is not coming in during the time where they expected. Creativity is being affected. One of the lessons from IPCC knowledge in the government panel of climate change is that it is the extreme events that will affect the life and livelihoods of the communities, people and their own, though the means will be fluctuating gradually moving over years, decades and centuries, but extreme events are already showing in big ways and this is evident in Cyclone. So the people have to act in the leadership of the, they act, which is often that they have practiced, but based on that, through the professional scientist, the policy makers, they act in 2005 and very soon, very soon found it's communicating adaptation. So various issues are taken and you know, here the issue is monitoring evaluation. We used to talk of billions, this issue was that 50 or 50, we mentioned about wonderful commitment may become a bit more difficult initially. It must go hand in hand.