 So the next session is called the many roads from Paris research for International climate policy and here to moderate it is our US colleague Marion Davis Thank you very much. Oh, sir. Okay. Oh, I'm Steve. You're me. Well, yes My name is Marion Davis. I work in the SEI US office in Boston and I also handle climate change communications for SEI and I am SEI's focal point for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Which basically means I am the one who arranges our presence at the conferences every year As you probably know, this is a very important year for international cooperation on climate change This year in Paris, there will be about 40,000 people Including leaders from all over the world Trying to negotiate what they hope will be a historic agreement the first time ever that there will be a universal climate change agreement with obligations for every country To combat climate change and transition to more resilient low-carbon societies Making this happen will take an enormous amount of work. Some of that is happening right now in Bonn as a matter of fact even as we speak But it will not end at the Paris conference. It will continue for a long time after that This is why we have called our session the many roads from Paris, not just to Paris I'm gonna cut right to the chase and introduce our first Guest, we are very honored to have Ambassador Jacques Lapouche Yes, he is the French ambassador to Sweden and he was also French ambassador for climate negotiations in 2013 in 2014 he's a career