 Hello everybody. I'm Dirk Hollermanns. I'm co-president of the Green European Foundation, and it is really my pleasure to welcome you here at the Green Hub in Glasgow at the start of this very important COP. I don't have to tell you it's really about the future of humanity, and I also want to thank the local Greens here really for this great cooperation. I won't talk about political goals, but I want to emphasize why we as Green European Foundation really thought that this hub here is crucial for the Green family, for the community here. I think this hub is not just a space you can use. We hope it will become a place for all of you the coming two weeks to come together to of course have debates, but also if you had many intensive debates or protest marches to rest to recharge your batteries to come together. We will handle a lot of topics. We will have speakers from academia, of course politicians, people from NGOs, movements, so wide diversity in people, in topics the way we deal with them from classical lectures to really round tables for small groups, and so really to enhance this working well together. There are many crucial questions hanging in the air, and this is the place where we will discuss them. We will have very different topics from eco-feminism, just transition to a future of industry. We will have people from a lot of different backgrounds. There will be a special permanent youth hub, so people looking for capacities to better have a discussion to find the instruments to contribute to the public debate. They can also really find their way here in this hub. There are a lot of new movements in society. There are a lot of organizations that have a message for the politicians, that have a message for the Green politicians, and so also here this hub will be the platform to organize this. Yes, of course it is also exciting for many people to see each other in real life, but I think at the same time it's crucial we organize this hub in a hybrid way. We know that many people, many groups, are not able to come to Glasgow, whether it's for vaccination reasons, whether it's for money reasons or red tape, and so it would really be a missed opportunity just to focus on people in Glasgow. So we open up to the world, and so for me this is not a European hub, this is a global hub, and I'm also very happy a lot of people of the global greens are attending, and so because we are facing here a global challenge for humanity, I think working hybrid, maybe you can also say it's a new normal, but it's crucial and we also have learned the last year that it can work very good. Some years ago, as the Green European Foundation, we defined ourselves as an ecosystem, as part of an ecosystem, and so in an ecosystem the interactions between the parts are crucial, and therefore this hub really wants to intensify these interactions, because with this we build social capital, and social capital is a key part of resilience, and I think this is what we need, and this is what we have to build to common weeks, so I wish you a lot of success in building together resilience for a common future. Thanks a lot.