 All right, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Let me welcome you to this high-level side event on the Blue Economy that is being held on the sidelines of the celebrations that are going on here in Nairobi. And I would presume around the world as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the UN Environment Program. And as we are gathered here today to commemorate the 50 years of the United Nations Environmental Program, it is important that we take a step back and reflect on the ocean, because there is no doubt that the Blue Economy is currently the most widespread economic platform globally. The water bodies of the world covering over 70% of the earth remain a major source of wealth, creating value in trillions of dollars in goods and services across multiple sectors and sub-sectors. To improve the state of the oceans, it's essential for biological diversity for our health and for the climate. Just how to do so is the key question. And the conversation on the Blue Economy is most certainly a part of the answer. However, a sustainable Blue Economy requires, first and foremost, healthy, well-managed and stable ecosystems, innovation and environmental progress must also help us to make use of the sea and its resources, but without over-utilization. Today's session was very phenomenal in terms of setting that agenda and acting as a reference. Where do we go from here? How do we carry on those declarations and agreements and engagements and conversations that went on throughout the sustainable Blue Economy conference that was held in 2018 in Nairobi? Ladies and gentlemen, in Kenya, Blue Economy is expected to significantly contribute to the country's economic growth and investment development as envisaged in Kenya's long-term development print, the Vision 2030 and the Big Four initiatives. At present, there are continent-wide frameworks that inform the sustainable management of Africa's Blue Economy resources. Our global focus and utilization of the blue are spaces which include ocean seas and inland water spaces, continue to expand and diversify. I see this as an extremely exciting period for the private sector to come in and help to finance the move towards a sustainable planet but also to help us to deliver not just STG-14, but all of the STGs. Thank you. There are a number of issues that came out today, like involving the community. It was one of the issues that was raised and it was taken as a... that we should involve the community. That's exactly what we are doing and I think we need to do even more. Involve more people from the grassroots so that in both giving of ideas and supporting them. There's also facilitation. We are able to come up with a facilitation to all those guys who are interested. There's something else that we have not been doing much, the involvement of the private sector. It was also resty and noted that there is key that we should involve the private sector. Those are the guys who are going to finance. We as government just give enabling environments to do business. So that will also come out and I was happy with that. The Stockholm Environment Institute is an international research institute that was founded to bridge science, policy and practice. We've done that since 1989. We were created just about four years before the Rio Summit and we continue to do so in the kind of work that we are working on. We were created as a legacy of the Stockholm Conference, what's called the United Nations Conference on Human Environment, which was in 1972. And that is why we are proud of course now to join UNEP in celebrating 50 years. And with that we're also much more proud because we have been given the honor by the Swedish government to lead the coordination of the science report for the Stockholm Pass 50 Conference which is coming up in June. And I know we've been in consultation with many different scientific groups so that we make sure that we really engage particularly for countries in the developing South in Latin America, in Asia and in Africa. We are meeting here today for the launching event of this quite a nice book about research, science and innovation to harness the blue economy. This is an important topic for UNEP because the blue economy can capitalize important elements of the issues that are facing oceans. Oceans stand at the center of the triple planetary crisis of pollution, nature loss and climate change. And it offer an integrated approach to address policy areas in a concerted way to into a concerted transition pathway to blue economy. Science, knowledge and innovation as a cornerstone of a blue economy we need to understand the complexity of the system with the natural ecosystems, the social systems and the economic systems. There are a lot of recent knowledge that suggest that the blue economy provide endless resources if sustained managed in a sustainable way. It's important that this kind of global ecosystems are harnessed with the participation and support of the entire global community and that is why the occasion of the 15th anniversary of UNEP is extremely important. We will be continuing with these efforts particularly to turn scientific knowledge into tangible investment. This is part of the conversation we are having here today so that communities that depend on blue economies, particularly Africa, small island development states can actually also benefit because at the moment they are actually marginalized. It's an honor to have this book here. I'll be a university very instrumental and humble partner in organizing the Blue Economy Conference in 2018 which I must admit was a global moment for the whole blue economy debate and it generated a lot of research, a lot of excitement and I'm very pleased to see this book now and I hereby officially declare it for launch. Thank you.