 It's incredible to come together, it's a gift really, these few days we have to reach for the deep transformation that we all seek in how humanity interacts with one another and with our beautiful planet. I want to thank most especially those who've come from far far away, most of you have come from far far away. And also, beyond the geographic dimension, I want to thank those who have come from a far in cultural ways. We're crossing many, many different sort of realms of human experience, many types of careers in the room, many types of backgrounds. And all together we're reaching really for something that none of us in our path could ever hope to achieve, you know, on our own. It's something we can create only together. And coming together is just the most joyful part, I think, of the week we have ahead. To develop, number one, a shared language, a shared framework for thinking about valuing nature and for cracking open pathways to green, inclusive and sustainable growth. So we're here to be reflecting and in very technical terms as well as just sort of life experience terms on the many connections between people and nature. How we value nature, how we can value nature in the many, many and very diverse ways in which we experience and depend on nature, you know, in meaningful ways even with all the complexity. How can we simplify through this development of sort of a common language, a common framework for thinking about these values and for making our thinking something that's simplified enough to be actionable in decisions. That's not so difficult for others outside of this room to take on. We need the whole world to be taking on what we're developing here. So actionable tools, actionable approaches that are simple and yet meaningful. And that can help us transform policy, finance, management in farming households through to big institutions like the banks and companies and big governments represented here. So it's fantastic to have everyone the warmest welcome. And I know in this week we'll have a lot of joy both in advancing our understanding together in opening these new pathways and also just in getting to know one another one on one. And I want to welcome up really quickly the leaders representing the core partners of the natural capital projects. So please pop on up quickly. You know who you are and we'll just pass on the warm welcome and then tell you we'll get down to business as to what's going to happen. So good morning from the University of Minnesota. It's really wonderful as Gretchen said to see everyone in this room, not only from so many different countries, but so many different backgrounds. So my own background is is in economics, but but I've spent a lot of time working with ecologists and other natural scientists and other social scientists and really thinking about how do we integrate, you know, the two egos. So economics and ecology, thinking about how do we take care of this wonderful planet that is our home. And we really need to be able to integrate our social and economic systems with our ecological systems in order to do that. So I'm thrilled to see the huge range of backgrounds of people in this room and from organizations. And I'm particularly excited and I know we are going to speak in a moment that that we have welcoming in here a new member of the of the family the Chinese Academy of Sciences and working with them on an on a range of a project and to see so many of our Chinese colleagues here. So with that I will pass along to Rebecca. Whatever her name is. I'm Rebecca Shaw. I'm the Chief Scientist for the World Wildlife Fund. And I also want to welcome our new partners to the net cap projects partnership, the Chinese Academy of Science really exciting to have all you here today, and really looking forward to to the discussions over the next few days. I'm going to be here from the beginning it starts right now to the very end because I don't want to miss a moment. We're at a place on the planet where we really need to figure out some big things. And the natural capital project is a platform for the kind of thinking and the kind of analyses we need to do as scientists with social scientists with policy to really begin to think through how we're going to build a sustainable planet. I don't want to think of any place I'd rather be than here today with you and again welcome to our new partners. I'm a dream of young from a Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing. I'm very happy to be the partner of partnership to join the partnership of a net capital. I hope and expected to work together with our partners to push in services in science and in policy and to benefit the people in China and other parts of the world. Actually in the last 10 years we worked together with the net capital and mainstream in services and biodiversity in policy in China and push China in conservation. I'm very happy in China where all those are not all the local government work together from the machine. So from Fuzhou and from Shanghai and all of China we expected to use in services and also the platform investor model in China. It's different in the lava and different in the land use for planning and many aspects. Thank you. I'm very happy to join the partnership of the net capital. My name is Hugh Possingham on the Chief Scientist of the Nature Conservancy. Welcome to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. I think you're the biggest research organization in the planet according to the web of science and all the citations. It's wonderful to be in such a diverse group of people. I'll also be here all week. It's a very important meeting for the Nature Conservancy. We have 400 scientists working in 72 countries. To be honest I'm here to learn. I'm here to learn a lot. I thought that natural capital was just bird diversity and the only ecosystem service was me birdwatching. Apparently nature provides more than that. So I'm here to learn. TNC will have 10 or 15 people here this week. Some of them speaking like Fran Alma who's on our board, Mark Turcic who's our president. Very keen to talk to all of you about the kind of things and work we can do together. Great. Wonderful. Well we've got a fantastic week planned and we'll just let it start.