 It seems only yesterday that I attended the first CBA conference in Dhaka many years ago. And finally, throughout this period I was always thinking that this is the new conference series that Selim and Hannah and their friends organized. Suddenly I looked on the screen, seeing it's the ninth one, it's been around for nine years. And I realized suddenly that it has reached a level of maturity. A level of maturity that has made it one of the most eagerly anticipated and well respected conference series on adaptation. So congratulations on that. And fortunately this maturity has not come along with a lack of innovation. It did not come at the expense of being innovative and creative. In fact I'm incredibly impressed at how the current incarnation of the conference has adopted a very prominent learning component. We've seen this here in the context of interactive exercises both in the out of the box sessions and those in the regular sessions. And the existence of this learning component does not only point to innovation but also to how Selim here practices what he preaches. I must have heard him say the word learning a thousand times in the past few months in every single event that we go to together. I'm glad that he's seeing his ideas come to fruition in this manner. Also, another innovation in this conference is the fun factor. I can't count how many times we've been laughing throughout the sessions. Much of this I have to thank Mr. Pablo Suarez here for he has injected a lot of fun exercises here as he always does. And so thank you for that as well. Now let me say something about the relevance of the CBA context to the negotiations, the climate change negotiations. By now all of you know that we're poised for a global transformation. A global transformation towards carbon resilient, sorry, carbon neutral development as well as carbon resilient development and adaptive development as well. Now a transformation implies displacement from point A to point B. So if we really consider the climate change world to be a basket of themes adaptation, mitigation, finance, technology, capacity building and each of these themes consisting of many sub themes including CBA under adaptation, the thing is that there's actually no basket here. The themes don't move together at the same pace. Some move faster than others. And because of that some may be left behind unless there is a critical mass of supporters championing it. Action at community level is one such niche. This is ironic because it is the community level that includes the most vulnerable and it is the most vulnerable that are the main clients of the climate change negotiations. So the system needs constant reminders of this fact of the priority that needs to be accorded to CBA and what better than the voices of 400 participants in this conference as well as 100 youth participants in the parallel conference to move this process forward as well as all your friends, associates, coworkers back home to make sure that CBA is not just kept alive but is given its rightful place at the top of the priority list. This is not just lip service but a call for action to scale up your communication to our negotiating process to the climate change process through side events, through publications and even through participating as observers in our official constituted bodies. Many of you already do that such as the adaptation committee. There will be possibilities for that in the upcoming loss and damage committee as well. And also with partnering with the Nairobi program on impacts vulnerability adaptation which happens to be a knowledge hub that we have for adaptation under the NFCC and which as the name implies has also been adopted here in this city. And please talk to me if you need any more information on this. Now back to the negotiations on the bright side. There are quite a few parts of the current draft of the negotiating text that do allude to CBA. There are provisions that call for adaptation action taking account of traditional indigenous knowledge and that the national adaptation plans should build on existing community driven and traditional adaptation efforts. So we have some basis there to build upon and we need to recall again that climate change is not the only process this year that needs this type of input. We just finished this entire process but there's implementation that will go on as a result. We have the finance for development process. We have the post 2015 development agenda and its SDGs and all of these have climate change components that would benefit a lot from being given a drive to consider CBA in a more prominent way. The declaration out of this conference of course a very good step to stimulate recognition as well and I hope that it's picked up appropriately by the media. So what I'm trying to say is that there is a good basis to build upon what we have now in order to make sure that this seminary actually takes on board CBA in a much more pronounced fashion than it has before and what is now needed is to further this momentum and extend its effectiveness and we rely on you all to help move us in this direction. Thank you very much.