 Hello everyone and thanks for participating and thanks to IID for organizing this webinar. I'll introduce the idea of ocean accounts that we've been developing together with IID, UN Environment and many other partners. It's based on the principle of positive feedback between evidence and governance that is using available evidence to inform decisions and understanding what evidence is needed to make better decisions. This is true for all domains, but information on the ocean is even more fragmented across sectors, sciences and agencies. So we think there's a rule for ocean accounts. Why do we talk about accounts? Well, it's not only monetary information that we're accounting for. We can apply the accounting approach to spatial and other physical data. The principle is to take a whole list of conceptual view to put what we know into an integrated platform. This has worked very well for economic and social data and we're making progress on environmental data with land, water, energy, waste and ecosystem accounts. We need to include a few other principles, stocks and flows, consistent units of measure and valuation methods, and there are many other principles embedded in our documentation. Putting these fragmented data into a platform also helps identify inconsistencies and gaps in the data. We're not making this up. The system of national accounts has been in place for over 70 years. The system of environmental economic accounting has been applied for about 25 years. We can think of small scale fissures and IUU that should be in the SNA, but not often counted. So all countries have an SNA and they can improve the detail in this SNA to help identify and measure small scale fissures. The SIA can be used to track fish stocks, harvesting and fish use. It can be used to track waste, but it's not often done sub-nationally. About 90 countries use parts of the SIA for wastewater, energy and land accounts. Many are also working on SIA ecosystems. We use this to track ecosystem types, the conditions and the services, but this hasn't been well tested for the marine ecosystems. About 15 countries are working on SIA ecosystem accounts. We still need to do some work to fill in the missing bits to address SDG-14. Small scale fisheries, for example, are beneficiaries of ecosystem services. They depend on a healthy ocean and fair markets, and this is one of the areas that we're working on. Definitions around technology, governance and management practices also need some work. So we're looking for partners to conduct national ocean account pilots to test the overall approach and to develop recommendations for these missing areas. There's a story behind the elephant in the whale. The elephant represents the components of the SIA ecosystems and the whale represents ocean accounts. And one of our objectives is to get the whale talking to the elephant here. The problem hasn't been so much the lack of data, but we have a blueprint to select, standardize and analyze these data. We suggest focusing on a subset of core ocean statistics that most countries will find useful to inform their planning. We found that with ecosystem accounting in general that maps and tables need to inform each other. We can use maps to create tables, tables to create maps. Some people think more spatially, some information comes from maps. We need to bring the maps together with the tables. One of the major ocean accounts is the beginning of that blueprint and this is very well covered in the background paper by the IED. So what does it all mean for small scale fisheries? Well, we suggest to use existing statistical standards like the SNA Industrial Classifications, the SIA for example, to analyze small scale fisheries. There may not be a need to reinvent the wheel here. These standards are used for many purposes and provide a means of linking to other national and international work. For example, if a country is already working on a SIA ecosystem, account then ocean accounts are a natural extension. The feedback will also help improve those standards. When we need new definitions and classifications agreeing on those globally will ensure a common approach to supporting countries. Using common definitions also helps with international comparisons. So the idea is that IED or ESCAP or the United Nations Statistics Division can provide capacity building technical support on ocean accounts and we're all telling the same story. Many people don't think of the national statistical system as providing anything but what they can find on their web pages. We think of the national statistical system as all the people in national statistical agencies and units within line departments. They do provide a lot of information but when we go look at their web pages it's usually not what we're looking for. But in fact they're quite interested in improving the relevance of their information. They could for example improve their surveys and registers. They can add detail to the system of national accounts and they can support the implementation of the SIA and ocean accounts and many are doing this. But we need to be patient. It takes a little bit of time. Survey cycles may take a year or two. Funding capacity building technical assistance might be needed but this is what we're doing across the UN and with the partners providing countries with the capacity and assistance they need to bring their information together for the ocean. Thank you very much.