 Good evening from Geneva. Welcome to our Sustainable Development Impact Summit. This session is about innovating for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. And we will also focus especially on the Stockholm Plus 50 conference that's coming up next summer. It is 50 years since world leaders came together next summer in Stockholm and really kind of invented the sustainability term. Sustainability is about inclusive economics, it's about social responsibilities, but it's also about the environment. And all this comes together with the Ambition 17 Sustainable Development Goals that we have to reach to make our planet a livable place by 2030. And we have a great panel to discuss this tonight. We have the Deputy Prime Minister from Sweden, Péter Boulon. Sweden is also the host of Stockholm Plus 50 in June next summer. And Péter is also the Environment and Climate Minister of Sweden. So he will be going to COP26 and hopefully be successful in delivering such an ambitious COP26 that it lays and paves the ground for really also an ambition, ambitious text in Stockholm. We have Inger Andersen with us. She is the Executive Director of UNEP, United Nations Environmental Programme that was born in 1972, came out of the Stockholm Conference. Will also play a major role of course at the COP, but also in Stockholm next summer. Then we have Geraldine Machette. She's the CEO and also the CFO of DSM, very important Dutch company that has left a big footprint in the sustainability field the last years. And then we have Ariana Day-Juan. She's the founder of Forested Food, one of the eco-entrepreneurs that will make this happen, a local action on the ground. And last but not least, Vice President Al Gore. We know Al also as a noble laureate, but also first and foremost as a great thought leader in the field of climate change has made a huge impact here. So welcome to this great panel. I would like to go to you first, Deputy Prime Minister Per Bullen is a lot of responsibility that Sweden is taking on again next summer. There has to be a lot of innovations, entrepreneurship and thinking out of the box to make sure that we meet also the sustainable development goals. So please share with us your ambitions and how we're going to make it happen. So we can change the non-sustainable path we are on today. Let's face it, our planet is burning. Well, thank you very much, Berger and their colleagues and friends and their planetary guardians and also supporters of transformative change for a healthy and prosperous planet for all. It's a great honor for me, of course, to be on such a distinguished panel and also being able to take part of these important discussions. I think these are important times and we have a lot to do and a short time to do it. So these kinds of gatherings are extremely important. And, of course, I think you agree with me that how to deliver sustainable development inclusively and universally by 2030 has really become the defining issue not only of our time, but also for our and all future generations. So as you say, we face many challenges and not least the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that has set so many countries back, has erased hard-upon victories and also, unfortunately, delayed the implementation of the 2030 agenda. But, however, we must also see that the road to recovery also offers a unique opportunity to redefine our relationship with nature, making sure that our economies and societies are within the planetary boundaries, but also an opportunity to accelerate the transformation towards a more sustainable and a more inclusive society. The policies that we boldly decide on today and the concrete actions that we take today will be decisive for how well we succeed in building a nature positive, but also net zero and a resilient world that is adapted to the future. And this is also the reason why we have decided to host Stockholm Plus 50 next June, 50 years after the first United Nations conference on the human environment in Stockholm. And we really believe that Stockholm Plus 50 provides a unique opportunity to engage with all stakeholders, including, of course, the business community, but also civil society and not least the young people. The youth of the world has raised their voices, craving of us that are adults to really make action happen and take our responsibility. And we have a responsibility to listen to their voices. So we have to also discuss together how we can accelerate the transformative action to fully deliver on the 2030 agenda, but also keeping the 1.5 degree goal alive and foster a truly sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Our aim is to gather the world is to once again, to mobilize energy for a collaborative and non inclusive effort of joint action that is oriented towards solutions on our urgent global goals. We need to move fast and we need to move forward. So with a strong focus on implementation and also on integration, the pressing agendas, but not least making generations come together. Stockholm Plus 50 can be very much needed stepping stone to get urgent action going and to get us moving towards a healthy and prosperous planet for all. And one important aspect of the required transformation is the transition to more sustainable and just global supply chains. And I believe that Stockholm Plus 50 could serve as an important platform for mobilizing and also showcasing innovative solutions to sustainability challenges that we do face across the global supply chains. Not least how innovations can help us advance both climate action, but also biodiversity conservation, which we know also is a very pressing issue. However, we of course need to do this together without multi-stakeholder engagement that involves governments, but also companies, entrepreneurs and young people. And also not least civil society. We will never be able to address the challenges that we face successfully. The world today has the largest youth population in history and 90% of our young people live in developing countries. And we cannot talk about the well-being of people on the planet without involving young people in such discussions and then also finding adequate solutions to the challenges that we face together. It's too late to use all solutions in the new world that is rapidly evolving. And we will never deliver on transformative action if we can't also use new innovative methods. And therefore, I also like to commend the World Economic Forum on the opportunities provided in your uplink platform, where young entrepreneurs and innovators can be linked up with both decision makers, but also with investors and where their ideas on how to tackle SD challenges can be scaled up and scaled up rapidly. So we now need more bold steps to that truly accelerate the delivery of the 2030 agenda and the threat of climate change and also ecosystem degradation and natural disasters. We know they're increasing and we know we have to face these challenges. So it's time to listen to the science and to embrace the opportunity of transforming our societies. And I believe that Stockholm Plus 50 offers an opportunity to make the next bold steps in this regard and getting the world moving. Thank you very much. No, thank you so much, Deputy Prime Minister and also thank you so much for underlining the importance of action here. I think we all know why, but we have to focus on how, how to make sure that we then mobilize the youth, but also the private sector, as you mentioned, we'll come back to that and you can count on the full support of the World Economic Forum in the run up to Stockholm. We see that companies are now in many sectors leading and we hope to mobilize even more of them. I would like now to go to Inger Andersen in UNEP. I think you will also work really very closely with the Swedish hosts on this important conference and it is not only about negotiating new texts. It's really about making sure that we meet the sustainable development goals and we are successful in implementing the necessary policies both on climate but also on nature-based solutions. So over to you, Inger and Nairobi. Thank you very much and greetings from a rainy season in Nairobi which has begun, which delayed, but we're very happy that it's here. So look, 1972, I want to transport you back just for 30 seconds to think about what was it that made the world come together in 72. It was a time when there was an awakening around environmental issues, largely on the pollution and the toxicity side. It was a time when we had bubbling, the rain was bubbling, the temps was bubbling. It was a time when fish were floating because they were dying and it was obviously a time when we had an acid rain in Norway and in Scotland and elsewhere. So there was this decision to host this conference to speak to the human environment. It was a watershed moment. A number of treaties came out of it, including asides, CMS and others. We can go into that in another session. But 50 years have gone and we now understand that and of course, UNEP was created, which is a good thing because this is the United Nations response and sort of the global conscience on the environment. But what we are now understanding is exactly as we heard from the from the Deputy Prime Minister that we are pushing against the very planetary limits of what the earth can sustain. We in UNEP speak about these three crises, climate crisis, biodiversity and nature crisis and the pollution and waste crisis. So what is it we're going to do to fix this so that we can land on the sustainable development goals? Well, we have to understand what's underlying these crises is us, our unsustainable consumption and production. And this means that if we're going to shift, and that's in the sense, SDG 12, right, sustainable consumption and production, and that takes us right to circularity. We are taking stuff out of the earth, mining, oil, obviously, textiles that we create, or all the raw materials, the resources that we take out of the earth, we make something with it, and then we discarded right back into the atmosphere, into the environment, into the oceans, into the soils. This does not compute anymore. And so seeing companies leaning in on circularity, and we're beginning to see that which is very, very exciting. We're seeing it in, in a beginning around plastics, we have a long way to go mind you, we're seeing it in textiles to some extent, we're seeing it elsewhere. So a lever has to be that of circularity. Second lever, which I won't have to go into too much, because I'm sure others will pick it up, has to be around the digitalization and digital transformation, using technology to be smart about our resources and to be smart about how we use and dispose, and how much we can keep in circulation. And then obviously, we cannot be just two days after we've come out with the NDCs and seen that we are so far from hitting where we need to go. And yet we understand that the conditional NDCs, i.e. the unfunded part of the NDCs, if that were funded, we would have a different conversation. So finance matters. And here, yes, public finance and 100 billion per year will be important. We promised that back in COP 15 of climate in Copenhagen, we now have to deliver it. But also to move the financial, the banking sector, and the investors and insurance sector, because that after all is what will help shift. We at UNEP are working with UNEPFI, the Financial Initiative, where significant commitments three trillion have already been committed on the financial initiative, sorry, 60 trillion in assets have already been committed in the financial. And that's about 40 percent of the total banking portfolio. That's what we need circularity, get with the technology and be smart about finance. Thank you. Well, thank you so much, Inger. Let's go over to you, Geraldine. We know that you have great passion, both for the environment, but also you have strongly underlined also the responsibility for business there. We already heard Deputy Prime Minister Per Boland mentioned the supply chains. We have to fix the supply chains to make sure that they're more sustainable and also that they are working in the interest of the climate and also for biodiversity oceans. And we should get less plastic waste out of this. Maybe you can share some of the experiences and your aspirations at DSM. Absolutely. And thank you, Borger, for having us on this panel on such an exciting week, actually, because it's the UN Food Systems Summit this week. And there is a lot of talk about food. And if there's one flip side of climate, biodiversity, etc, the linking pin is actually the food systems. Also, it actually triggers me. I didn't realize about Stockholm. I was born in 1972. So it puts a little extra personal touch to what's coming up. Now, in terms of what do we need to do to really reach our aims? We've got nine years left. As DSM being the world leader in what makes food and feed nutritious, we are the middle of the supply chain when it comes to how we produce food and how food is consumed. So this is where we play the most. And let me use that as a bit of a thread to connect a few dots when it comes to scaling innovation. And let's take food waste as an example, which is, by the way, a major challenge given that we waste at least on the latest estimates are much higher than that than one third of the food that we produce. And that the environmental footprint of that food is actually enormous, both in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, in terms of water, in terms of biodiversity, etc. Now, you know, in terms of scaling innovation, the way we like to think of it as a private, you know, company or a private player, we're not we're listed company is in four pieces. Firstly, it's about scaling innovation, which is out there, and particularly new technology, new, whether it be technology on digital, but all sorts. And here I would love to flag the uplink, and the 1300 entrepreneurs of which we have one with us this evening, where there's a lot of very creative good science that needs scaling. And as a larger company corporation, we can do that. So let's make sure that we connect the the small scale startup entrepreneurship to the larger players to accelerate innovation. So that's aspect number one, aspect number two is of course, the private sector needs to invest in smart innovations. And here I could come with all examples if we have time later on the panel of how biotechnology, how science can radically change the environmental impact of producing food, which by the way, is the most common human activity on the planet, but leads to for example, two thirds of deforestation. So how do we start applying our science? And here we can reduce the methane burped by cows, for example, by 30 to 80%. It is durable. It is in our hands today. How do we scale that? So how do we keep investing? Second, the third is of course, partnership. I think we've heard it both from the Deputy Prime Minister and from here of you don't do this alone. So how do we connect with our partners, whether it be governments, or private sector or NGOs? And I'm so excited to see the UN Food Systems Summit come up with these country pathways, where there's a dialogue which is bringing all of this together, which I think will help these partnerships really accelerate so that we can get somewhere by 2030. And last but not least is how do you actually connect across the value chain? Because consumers are increasingly interested in the environmental footprint of what they consume, whether it be clothing or food in our case, but often it's very difficult for a consumer to know the environmental footprint of what it is that they are buying. So typically connecting from end to end a supply chain is critical. And here I would like to call out the World Economic Forum, what you've done in terms of creating the food innovation hubs. There are seven in the world. They are regionally relevant, which is critical because food is global and hyperlocal. So how do we connect the innovations that can scale in those regions and bring that innovation power across the value chain much, much faster. So for me, it's about scaling, investing, partnering and connecting the value chain. Thank you so much, Geraldine. And also for mentioning Uplink. I think this is a very nice segue into your contribution, Arianna, your own Uplink. Uplink is a platform that we created at the World Economic Forum where we try to put main challenges related to the sustainable development goals on there being water, food, climate, and then we invite eco-entrepreneurs to come up with their solutions and meet other potential partners. So it is really about scaling up innovation, as mentioned by you, Geraldine, but also Deputy Prime Minister mentioned it. So Arianna, it's not always easy to be an entrepreneur and make innovations happen out in the field. So I know you've been successful, but you also met challenges. So over to you. Sure. And yeah, we are a very proud and thankful member of the Uplink community. Just to give a little context, forested foods is an agroforestry startup, and we exist to cause deforestation and biodiversity loss by unlocking more value from conservation-based agroforestry across the global south. So complimentary to DSM, who Geraldine explained as the middle of food systems were we're basically that player at the beginning. We build, develop and work with networks of smallholder forest communities to regeneratively produce aggregate process and distribute things like porous honey, spices, gums, resins, fruits, really anything that can grow in a forest. What forested foods is working towards is building the cargill for deforestation-free and regenerative agricultural agriculture products. We're not only building forest-friendly supply chains, but carbon negative ones as well so that we can be the sourcing partner and solution to businesses working towards carbon neutrality. We've been building forested foods for about two years now, starting in Ethiopia, where we started by mobilizing a network of 1,000 smallholder farmer beekeepers to build a vertically integrated brand of single-origin honeys and soon expanding into bulk honey and bee products from Ethiopia's indigenous trees. Our business model is really inspired by a lot of work that we were seeing across sectors. I was working for a few years in Ethiopia, where I arrived seven years ago now, initially to work for the NGO TechnoServe and building, strengthening smallholder farmer-inclusive supply chains with private sector partners like Nespresso and Diageo, but also foundations like Gates as well as the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. And it was during this period where I realized not just the challenges, but more importantly, the opportunity for a more vertically integrated field-based agroforestry enterprise to be a solution for a growing number of these larger corporations, notably corporations interested in investing in sourcing ingredients and supplies that did better by people and for the planet. And while I saw that these corporations, especially food and other CPG companies, had the power to market products and scale, I saw an interesting opportunity to embed forested foods in emerging markets like Ethiopia and around the global south to serve as the increasingly necessary, reliable, trustworthy partner, a partner with our boots truly on the ground, with supply chain expertise in aggregating the production potential of rural, fragmented, smallholder forest farmers and really ensuring quality control from the forest through agro-processing operations and finally distribution. And while corporations are increasingly investing in projects to improve sourcing activities, which we love to see more of, there is an inevitable bureaucracy at least compared to startups that allows ventures like us to be much more nimble in navigating the complex dynamics of business and emerging markets, managing millions of contract farming, schemes with smallholders, collecting data and deploying technologies across this rural, fragmented network of smallholder producers. Forested foods is very much a nature-based solution to climate change. It's honestly not rocket science, but we are leveraging the often overlooked power of behavior science and systems change approaches to work towards our vision of intact biodiverse forest across the global south. Understanding that many people view the environment as a component of our human world versus the reality that we humans are actually a small component living within our natural world, we believe that the best way to conserve the world's critically biodiverse forest is really by helping everyone generate more value, especially commercial value from conservation and from our forests. Thank you so much and thank you for your leadership in this field. Al Gore, you listened to the other panelists, we know this is really a year that matters a lot for the future of our planet. We know COP26 is coming up, we also know important meeting on biodiversity in China in the spring, we have the Stockholm meeting, but I think you will always focus on action in this field. So looking forward to hear your take on what is said, but also hope you look at the prospects for the coming year. Are we going to make the changes that are necessary? Well, thank you Borga and thank you for your personal leadership on all of these issues we've been discussing. As of today, there are 40 days left before the beginning of COP26 and there's good news and bad news and I'll come to that in just a moment, but you've asked me, Borga, to react to the other four speakers. I did not know what they were going to say, so I've been furiously taking notes listening and I will be very brief. First of all, Pierre Bolland in Sweden, yes, where the world will highly anticipate the Stockholm plus 50 conference next summer, and I want to honor your Prime Minister at that time, Gru Bruneland, for her great leadership. And Pierre mentioned the connection to the pandemic, Borga. I think there are five parallels, number one with both the pandemic and the climate crisis, also biodiversity. The leading scientists have been accelerating their efforts to warn the world in the direst possible terms. And the new IPCC report just recently out is the starkest warning yet. And when the leading scientists warned us about the pandemic, we didn't listen sufficiently. We should listen on climate. Number two, both of these crises show us our interconnected world can be turned upside down suddenly. Number three, science and technology have given us the solutions to both of these crises, but we have not yet organized our global cooperation to the level where we can implement these solutions quickly enough. That's why these upcoming meetings in Scotland and in China and elsewhere are so crucial. In both cases, the worst consequences of the coronavirus and the climate crisis are delayed. There are no immediate symptoms. And so this challenges our basic human nature, asymptomatic transmission in the case of the pandemic. And although we have already seen staggering climate related weather extreme disasters all over the world, especially in the last three months, they're getting worse. The scientists tell us these events are nothing compared to what we would confront if we did not quickly reach net zero and reduce these emissions. And finally, in both cases, there are negative tipping points that we must avoid. The rapid mutation of the coronavirus could still give a much more deadly variance unless we have equitable vaccine access all around the world. Inga with UNEP and Nairobi talked among other things about circularity and I compliment all of the UN staff. And it reminds me that two years before the Stockholm conference in 1970, Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, put out his epic statement on the need for multi-stakeholder capitalism. Geraldine with the DSM and please let me honor your former CEO, Faikis Abizma, who is our highly valued colleague at the World Economic Forum. And you talked about business and leadership Geraldine and indeed it is there on the part of so many businesses. And may I add the investor community is getting involved. There is now a net zero asset managers alliance that has pledged their portfolios will be net zero by 2050, quite a few of them by 2040. And the amount of assets in these portfolios is now 43 trillion dollars which is about half of all of the assets under management worldwide. So the many in the business community are leading, many are moving faster than the politicians. And Geraldine also talked about the connection to food. The IPCC has warned us about the risk of multi bread basket failures. We are seeing the impact on food production lower yields from the higher temperatures from the drought. 1.1 million people are nearing starvation in Madagascar today in the southern cone of Africa and in too many other places. The impact of climate on food is already quite apparent. But here too we have solutions because we can sequester more carbon in the soils while we increase yields and increase agricultural productivity. And finally Ariana Day-Yoon talked about forestry and agroforestry and indeed this is part of the new food production methods that can help us make our globe sustainable and feed those who are desperately in need of more nutrition today. And I want to compliment the World Economic Forum for its initiative to plant 1 trillion trees. But we have to arrest the progression of the climate crisis to stop destroying the current forests. We have seen fires all over the world this year. In my country you perhaps have seen it on the news in Siberia where there are even more. The news doesn't cover that so much. But here I will conclude with good news, Borga. The IPCC report also tells us that once we reach net zero emissions and are not adding to all of this heat trapping pollution in the Earth's atmosphere we can stop the increasing temperatures in as little as three to five years. And then if we maintain net zero up to 50 percent of the CO2 will fall out of the atmosphere in as little as 25 to 30 years some of the other gases will last longer. We have the opportunity, we can do it in the next 40 days, we have to see much more action than we have thus far seen in the form of better pledges and follow through activities on the part of those who will convene in Glasgow on October 31. Thank you so much Al Gore for that and as you so strongly underline the cost of inaction no far exceeds the cost of action when it comes to climate. But so much is at stake for our planet in those 40 days but when we look at the geopolitical picture now the G2 relation between China and the U.S. but also the relationship now between the U.S., Australia, UK and China it doesn't look that good but that's the geopolitics. How to make sure that something that is in our common interests all these countries are equally affected by climate change. So are you concerned about the path you're seeing towards the COPNO or do you think there will be a breakthroughs like we saw in Paris and as we saw in Kyoto in 97? Well yes I am concerned Borga, very concerned but we still do have the 40 days. You mentioned the G2 and then the lead up to Paris as you know the cooperation between the two largest emitters China and the U.S. was one of the keys to securing that wonderful agreement but in the run-up to Glasgow China has not cooperated with the world community in the same way it did six years ago and in my country the Congress has not yet found a successful pathway to enacting the very bold climate agenda that President Joe Biden has put forward there is still time and they may yet act but both of these two largest polluters have to come to grips with their responsibility. I could say much more about China they're building more new coal plants than the entire rest of the world put together. They're also building more solar panels and windmills than the rest of the world put together so there's good news and bad news but finally we are in the early stages Borga of an historic sustainability revolution that is making the organization of the global economy based around reaching net zero the centerpiece the organizing principle for our economic activities it is at the scale of the industrial revolution and at the speed of the digital revolution 90% of all the new electricity generation last year was wind and solar the IEA says it will be 95% going forward but we're still putting 162 million tons of heat trapping man-made global warming pollution into that thin shell of atmosphere you see it behind me here it's so thin and it's trapping so much heat it is disrupting the water cycle it is creating all of these disasters and a projected potential one billion climate immigrants crossing borders that's already begun and this has a destabilizing impact on some political systems so let's make the best use of these next 40 days thank you I want to go to buy I want to go back to you deputy prime minister uh per uh balloon uh you heard other speakers of course great expectations for Stockholm and also Swedish leadership but you heard former vice president Al Gore here know also greatly concerned about the run-up to COP26 and I know that the EU will do a lot of climate diplomacy I know that you yourself are also personally very engaged in this question and we'll be going to COP26 how do you feel are you very concerned about the days that are coming or do you feel that it is possible to break the impulse well thank you for that very important question and I strongly believe that we have an opportunity to get a momentum going that we so urgently need but of course if we cannot even fulfill the pledges that we have already made in previous cops it will be very hard to see the movement that is necessary on COP26 and for example the pledges on climate finance remains to be fulfilled and from Sweden and also from the European Union we will move forward in also providing the climate finance that is needed to get a momentum going because what we need now is to take away all the excuses for inaction that still exists unfortunately and we know that there are unfortunately global actors that are reluctant to to move in the direction and in the pace that we know is necessary and if we can get a momentum through increased climate finance I believe that that will at least take away one of the obstacles but in my view what is urgently needed is is a new and different look at what is a risk and what is an opportunity we know that our world is transforming at a very very fast pace both with the climate crisis that is already upon us that we see in extreme weathers all around the world but also in new technologies digitalization and automaticization that is really transforming our world and we know that it is very prone to human nature that when we are in a changing atmosphere and changing environment it is very easy to stand still and try to analyze what is happening but we have to be aware that the very most dangerous thing we can do at the moment is to stand still and what we need now is to act and we need to act fast and that is why I'm so inspired by the the innovators and the young entrepreneurs that are now using the new technologies to also provide solutions for us that we can scale up and use on a global level to really make the transformation happening and we know for a fact and we've seen it so many times in Sweden not least that when we do take the bold steps when we invest for a transformation of industry and transformation of transportation it is nothing that hampers our economy or our competitiveness rather the opposite it's really what provides us with a stable economy and and stable incomes for the future so it should be a no brainer we should all see that the only way forward is to now transform our societies and our economies and what we need now is to take the take away the the excuses for inaction and I believe that increase climate finance is a very important step that we should take and that we are willing to take thank you and just you know imagine what the difference it would make if we could make then green hydrogen also cost effective if we 10 years ago had had this panel and I said that the price of solar would be falling to one-tenth or price of wind would fall to one-seventh you guys probably would think I was a bit crazy but that's no the fact so if you're investing in the new technologies you're saying then we can also make things happen we have little time left so I the rest of the speakers will have to stick to around one minute but Inger Anderson the new technologies make you optimistic well like I'll say that look we launched the IPCC report a few weeks back and at that launch I said for 30 years IPCC has come out with ever greater precision about what what is happening and what we need to do and yet we listened but we didn't hear and we didn't take action now it really is a minute to midnight secretary general has come out and said this is code red for humanity we're meeting in New York right now and we're all virtual so I am in New York the whole night but at any rate on this we are convening the food system summit we're convening the energy summit all of this but Glasgow has to succeed and it is not enough to keep the can down the road it is not enough to make promises we said in Paris and we would come back with more ambitious NDCs now is a time to deliver them and to deliver them with clear time marked what am I gonna do in 21 in 22 and 23 Ditto for biodiversity don't have time to go into it but it is time and 2022 will be a very decisive year if we are not hit where we need to be in Glasgow we are in dire straits but as we've heard we can do this and that's the good news the technology is there we at UNEP are very proud and thank you Mr. Vice President for mentioning the the net zero bankers alliance we and the net zero as a donors alliance very proud to host these industries leaning in a private sector and finance is leaning in so let's get this done thank you thank you Inger Geraldine yeah I would say indeed coming back to the investors there was a time when there was a bit this conflict of yes we can but we can't and there is now alignment there is alignment from the investor side the private sector and public sector to get this done I think the one thing that really struck me with the pandemic is the speed at which things can move when you really need to and one of the ongoing I think holdbacks when it comes to climate is this mindset it's going to take a long long time it doesn't have to the technologies are there the ability is there and now the funding is starting to align so I think the best thing we can do in the run-up to Glasgow is to be as many voices as loud as we can saying please commit because it's doable and that's what we can do to help you know give that little bit of backbone to go for it because it is possible but we need to do it now well thank you Ariana I would say that I'm really looking forward to partnering with larger corporations other NGOs and governments to really scale up conservation and use nature-based solutions to combat climate change it's you know climate change is very complex but we can figure it out and I think startups bring a lot of the gusto and the unreasonable optimism and grit to figure it out and what we really need is partnerships to develop and deploy technologies and non-technology solutions climate change was you know the crisis has been driven by intersectional challenges and we're going to have to solve it with intersectional solutions thank you so then you have uh one minute al at the end well thank you borga just a few hours ago speaking to the un general assembly in new york president biden announced a doubling of the u.s. commitment on climate finance the u.s. is now arguably doing its share some should will say it should be more of of course all nations should be doing more but this should not be an obstacle we have to make a success of the glasco conference i'm optimistic that president biden will also succeed in our congress uh and china has pledged net zero by 2060 it's not soon enough but the world is moving it's just not moving fast enough we could stop using our atmosphere as an open sewer that is the heart of the crisis we have to stop the greenhouse gas emissions from increasing and we have to reduce them the rest of it are all it's all footnotes we have to stop using the sky as an open sewer thank you for what the weft is doing borga and thank you for what you are doing well thank you so much and thank you to an amazing panel i'm so proud uh to have you here with us this evening uh in geneva will at least put all our efforts into mobilizing in the multistakeholder way uh for cop 26 we'll all then also meet at our annual meeting in davos in january where we will also make sure that businesses don't only support the outcome of cop 26 but also focus on nature based solutions also on all the other sustainability challenges we're faced with the sdgs and also use this as a platform for innovation entrepreneurship and thinking out of the box in the run-up to stock home 50 so thank you again for joining us and have a good evening