 Ladies, gentlemen, dear colleagues, good morning. I'm so pleased to see the Inga understated. So we are already on the board for since I come to the FLDG. I know her, but maybe she didn't know before, her me. So now, you see, I always say we're doing, not only talking and myself, we support all the biodiversity, forest environment issues in the mandate of FL, of course. It's a large picture, not only for a cultural, small culture, we are talking a culture at large. I'm very pleased to be with you at this 25th session of the FL Committee on Forestry and the first ever virtual gallery in the committee's history of the 50 years. This year we celebrate the 75th anniversary of FL and a few days later that of the United Nations itself. So we had to rethinking and redesign our all the activities and the actions to inlines with the original aspiration of FL and UN. Two institutions that more than ever needed to be efficient, inclusive, and responsive. This is the reason that in the 14 months since I took office as a general of FL, we put a special focus on building a more dynamic FL that's fully aligned with its original vision and mandate. Of course, we wanted to be more inclusive with our sister organizations and key players and the civil society and private sector. Of course, more closer to the ground in the members and the farmers. And of course, you can say forest people. We established a modular flexible structure which optimized across sectors collaboration and shattered silos within FL systems. We are creating agile organizations that serve its members to achieve the four betters. I always say we only have our betters forever but we do not have a best. Maybe for the moment that you have a one best but the better forever, every sector, every organization, every country. So that's why I always say last year when I compare it for DG, better protection, not only for the developed nation and the developed, not only for the rural areas and for the city and for the others, better production and better nutrition, not only for the organization, for the farmer, producer and trader and also better nutrition for the individuals. For the different sectors, you can offer the better nutrition and the better environment. Not only the mandate of FL or UNEP or others, better environment is for the international organization and for the members and we need the contribution from all the key players and the better life, better life for farmers and for the citizens and for consumers and as a whole we are human beings. We need a better life. Better life is not only nutrition, not only food and not only money. We need the environment to support and let's happiness come from we have basically a requirement of a new trade and also others demanding. We should try our best to meet. We are accelerating our efforts to create a digital FL and enhancing our digital service to the members including through virtual meetings like this one. Yeah, and of course on the ground we need a lot of service at the same time we have to keep a balance for this pandemic during this special difficult time of pandemic, we can strengthen a digital approach and also depend on the digital world. So today at this committee, we have our chair connected from Asia and no cost. And also our best links from Europe and the participants from all over the world and this is a really global gathering. No any other way we can bring us together. Before like before you all had a lot of participants due to the flights arrangement due to the other unexpected traffickers and so arrangement. You couldn't manage it to come but now you're sitting at your home or your office you can really 100% participate in this conference as a committee conference I mean. This is a real new digital world. And the open innovative mindset covered with modern technology is enabling us to reach and engage with more members, partners as stakeholders than ever before. That's a way of optimistic thinking. We are facing the challenge and the pandemic and the difficulties. This was the case when we launched this year's State of the World Forestry, FLO first the digital flagship publication back in June. I think they got more access just the chairs mentioned this. Today we have so many participants globally. Ladies gentlemen, the pandemic has showed that the forest can serve as a safety net for a human being. Origin attacks to say only for poor environment. No, forest the basic function serves as a safety net for human being. We have to look at a lot of fiction not only talk about the specific group. I see a lot of people now traveling to climb to the mountains and even here there used to be to spend most time on beach but now they prefer to go to mountain. Why? Because it's the most safe places to go. That's a real nest for you. So in this time of the crisis, it's a safety net for human being, the poor, the vulnerable, and offering a huge potential in building back better. The water forests are among our most precious common heritage with the ecosystematic, economic, and social impact. We're jogging there during years when I was a scientist and the local leaders. If you want to have a high quality of life, you'd be having like a monkey because the monkey is living in the forest. If you'll be a poor human being, stay in the city because you have no choice. And so if you really aim into the high quality of life, you have like a monkey living in the forest. So forests are profound of life, livelihood, and happiness and they are critical to achieving sustainable development goals from the poverty eradication to the zero hunger and climate change and the biodiversity. That's why the last weekend we had a bad emphasis summit in UN headquarters. I was honored on behalf of all the assistive agencies and the entities to talk about that. Look at a large picture from the environment, a culture food and research and education and innovation and also business model. So the theme of this session of COFA is so timely and meaningful as forestry and SDG decade of action, solutions for the climate change, biodiversity and people. But deforestation and forest degradation continue to take place in alarming rates with the urbanization, industrialization, especially agricultural expansion accounting for a large proportion of deforestation. Not only from last 20 years or 100 years, before, several thousand years due to war conflict, the burning of the primitive forests and then come to industrialization and then come to urbanization, the one expanding. So, but agricultural itself also due to the population increase during the past 1000 years, let's say. And they expanding without so much innovative way to suppose so they kind of measure a large proportion of deforestation. We have to look at that historically, not only from one angles. If my colleague look at the original text, I change because you want to talk about small things. How to increase agricultural production and improve food security without reducing forests areas is one of the great challenges of our time. Population increase, we need more food, no doubt. But how do reducing and minimize the impact? That's only solution we can deal with or we had to do best. Holding deforestation and scaling up the reforestation therefore must be central building block to the sustainable transformation of food systems. So we have to look at two sides of a coin. The original text from the forest department always talk of the hard deforestation. What is hard but a scaling up a reforestation? We have to think in the two way or even three dimension way to deal with the challenges. Every part of the co-lead the UN system-wide efforts to turn the tide on the deforestation as requested by the UN Secretary General. We will hear more about this during this week, including the highlight of our dialogue on the deforestation tomorrow morning. And also I know the Madam Anderson, she has a lot of ideas and suggestions on the action plan on the road. So we will also hear how AFL together with UNDB and UNEP has been supporting over 60 countries in reducing deforestation and the forest degradation through the UNREDD program. I work on the forest law enforcement and governance and trade, how the countries combat illegal logging. We have to promote the trade in timber which is the sustainably produced by small scale enterprises. AFL is also at the forefront of supporting the countries access and analyze the big data on changing happening to their forests and the landscapes. For example, we develop the SEBA, the system for the air observation data access, processing and analyzing for land monitoring. SEBA is an innovative open source software which helps countries access the vast amount of data available via satellites and the increasingly high resolution. Today, it has more than 5,000 active uses in 180 countries and the territories. There's a collaborative work about tangible results. AFL latest global forest resources assessment launched in July was the most accurate ever with many countries producing new data and considerably refining the monitoring and the reporting on forests. Such improvements are critical to ensure the uniform in factory decision-making on forest and land use. They are part of our focus on big data as a game changer. That is why we launched the hand-in-hand special special platform with a large and rich set of data on food, agriculture, socioeconomic and the natural resources to have the strengths and evidence-based decision-making in the food and agriculture at large. Here, the agriculture includes all the sectors of SEBA title of the agriculture. And also, it's a platform. So the data ownership depends on the individual entities. We didn't own all those. We just offer the platform for them to make the release and the sharing with our users and the members. The platform includes over 1 million geospatial layers and the southern of statistical cells on over 10 domains linked to the food and the culture including forests, of course. That's why the Ms. Madame Anderson knows that in the U.S. system, we talk about the digital and the big data, but FAO already built that big data platform. So not only include the food and all the relevant data. So this really not only for FAO and for relevant system entities for the society globally. Ladies and gentlemen, transformational change is needed in the way we manage our forests and their biodiversity, as well as how we produce and consume our foods, F-O-O-D-S, not our food, our foods and interact with the nature. They are clearly linked between deforestation, biodiversity laws and climate change. To address these challenges, we need a stronger engagement with the forest sector to ensure the optimal health for people, animals and the environment as part of a one-house approach. FAO sustainable wildlife management program is spearheading such efforts and at the same time strengthening wildlife management and enhance the food security of local communities. Investing in the sustainable forest supply chains and ecosystem restoration is effective in alleviating poverty, generating employment and building back better. Improving the forest-based livelihood, prosperity and human wellbeing is an aim of the forest and the farm facility. With this facility, FAO is working with over 350 forest and farmer-producer organizations, increase their access to the financial services and integrate them to the value chance of the markets. More than 25 million people in the 30 countries have directly or indirectly benefited from this including during the current COVID-19 pandemic. FAO has also helped to restore the productivity of degraded land and the livelihoods of local communities in the Sahara. Our support to the great green war initiative has resulted in some 50,000 hectares of land being restored. I just had a discussion with Madame Anderson. We needed more action to get all the holistic design and comprehensive beneficial. To our farmers and the community and consumers. Together with the UAP and the Secretary of the UN Convention to combat the devastation, we have a priority ambitious action plan to jointly restore 100 million hectares of degraded land sequestered 250 million tons of CO2 and create 10 million green jars. And FAO is pleased to call it with the UN dex of our system restoration with the UN EP here. On the 18th of September, we had a virtual launch of the FAO Green City initiative and its plan to transform agri-food system and hanger and improve nutrition. By contributing to climate change and mitigation and promoting sustainable resource management, cities are very essential in building back better. Because cities have human being, human capacity and also technology and investment and information, of course. And also purchase power. So they are really the promoter and the pusher. In 2050, 68 or 70% of the world population will be living in the cities with 90% of the increase occurring in Africa and Asia which will lead to great opportunities and challenges. About 70% of our food supply is consumed by able dollars and a number of that is steadily under rise. Today, cities consume almost 80% of total energy produced in the world and are responsible for 70% of global waste. Cities also account for about 70% of global energy related greenhouse gas emissions. So we always say we have to focus on a major challenge. We have to visit all the major solutions. City is one of the real game changer and the key player. Started with 100 cities around the world. We hope to have 1,000 cities joined this initiative by 2030 not just for sustainable producer health foods but also to contribute to the ecological management of water resources, sustainable land use and the expansion of the green space. Increatable forestry and high-tech intensive farming considering economic, social and ecological gains comprehensively. With only 10 years left to achieve the sustainable development goals we need a fundamental change of the main side remodeling our business approaches. That's why I have a lot of expectation from next year's water forestry conference. You have to think your way how to restart your journey to the 2030 and beyond. Ladies and gentlemen, there is a Chinese provider that says one generation grows the trees in which whose share another generation rests. For the past five decades, COFO Kofo has brought us together in identifying emerging forest policies, technical solutions and proprate actions to move ahead forward. In some way, this is akin to the plant trees by one generation for the next. I very much appreciate you as a forestry professional with a big passion and a long commitment. Not like working in the crops. You need five years to have a visible and tangible result. For forest people, I know for breeding, research and workers, you plant trees for one generation and maybe some people will get a shedding after one generation or two. So that's a really long commitment. And the success of work today is crucial for the shaping of better tomorrow. We must scale up our actions to realize the potential for forest fruit trees, food diversity and others. We have defined more specifically what is forest meaning for the society. Not only talk of forest, forest because forest has a lot of meanings in different categories. So we have to get all the society to realize what the forest means and what is a closer linkage with their life and their environment. I encourage you not only to plant more trees but also design more comprehensively and holistically. Get more key players on board to jump in for picking apples rather than sitting on the ground for it. Let us aim high and do concrete together. Be innovative, be cohesive and be great. For a hunger free world, where the forest provides solutions for climate, biodiversity, healthy food and people. Thank you. Thank you very much.