 Today is the 25th of April. It's the first day of the conference. We just finished the conference dinner Before that we had the opening in the morning with the Minister for Environment as our chief guest and other dignitaries giving speeches and then went into our conference With various cleanery and parallel sessions out of the box session a session on learning from failures Which was very interesting and innovative and then in the evening we had Something called a pot song, which is a Bangladeshi folk song that was developed by a British researcher Joanne Jordan at the University of Manchester with students from the drama school of Dhaka University and it was a very Nicely organized nicely played and in fact in the end highly interactive discussion with the audience on issues Related to migration and climate change and I think the audience enjoyed that very much They brought it home to them that it wasn't just the academic issue But a living issue for many people who are losing their lands to erosion and are having to move to the cities Tomorrow we start again at the day two and then we have two and a half more days of discussions and presentations to go We have a hundred fifty or so international participants from about forty countries and another hundred participants from Bangladesh So a lively bunch that gets a bit crowded in the cleanery when everybody's in the room, but that's good as well And we're looking forward to further discussions for those of you not in Africa want to follow us You can do that on www.cba.org And also on Twitter at hashtag