 Thank you very much, Paridha. Good morning. As-salamu alaykum to all of you. Before I start the interview with Karna, let me just have a show of hands of how many people are here for the first time in the development of Climate Days? Good, good, good, lots. And how many people have done more than two? Good. Some more timers and some new timers. Excellent. So let me tell you a little bit about the history of this event. It started many years ago when I was in IND, as a venue during the weekend between the two weeks of the conference where we can bring together practitioners who are working on development and climate at the same time and to come and spend the weekend together. Normally a two-day event this year we have to do it to a one-year event, one-day event. And the idea is to be informal. So you come in your informal weekend clothes, these are my weekend clothes. Usually we don't allow tidies but we can make no exceptions for those of you who have put on a tie. And we talk in first name terms. I'm Salim, this is Karna and all of us here are first name basis and one of the objectives is to get to know as many of you us by the end of today new people that we hadn't known before and made friendships. This is the purpose of this. So we can throw it up. We spend it in an enjoyable manner, make friends and learn a bit as well. Learning is a co-objective but not the primary objective. Making friends is the primary objective. So I'm going to start with Karna and invite him as for those of you who don't know in the UNFCC process we have a group of least developed countries, some of the poorest and most vulnerable countries. They operate as a group currently chaired by Bhutan and we have a number of positions that we are pushing forward in the negotiations. We are now halfway through that. Next week from tomorrow onwards we will be pushing them even further. So we've invited Karna to come and tell us a little bit about where we are in the negotiations at this point in time but more importantly what Bhutan and least developed countries are pushing for and hoping to get by the end of next week. Thank you. Very good Sunday morning to everyone. I must confess that I'm not expert on climate negotiation but I'm keen for my LTC group. Let me introduce myself. I'm Karna and I'm based in New York. Basically, I'm speaking on behalf of LTC Group. Bhutan is the chair of LTC Group on climate change based in Vermont and then we are also taking lead on LTC Group at the climate change in New York. I basically wanted to share about something about the climate change. Recently we had... Let me start by saying that that LTCs are the most world-wide country. There were 47 of our most world-wide countries that contributed at least to the climate change but bearing the burdens of the climate change. At the UN climate summit in New York in last September the LTC Group has taken the leadership and launched an initiative called Live Air which is an LTC effective implementation of adaptation and mitigation where the vision of Live Air is to have a climate resilient economy by 2030 and then zero emission by 2050. This is an initiative by the LTC. We have taken the leadership and come forward and said that we want to do this so in order for the LTC to achieve this we need the support of the international community. At the LTC has been very active. We have been focusing on basically on several areas on adaptation, on loss and damage, on article 6 which are very critical for the LTCs. Well, there has been some progress in these areas but the next few days will be very critical for us to see some results. Thank you very much. So let me fill in one of the issues that is a critical decision point here in COP25 in one grid which is on the topic of loss and damage. For those of you who don't follow this about how do we deal with the impacts of climate change that are already happening. So they are beyond mitigation and beyond adaptation which are both preventative actions. Loss and damage is now happening and we need to deal with it. In the UNFCC jargon context this is a decision to review something called the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage. For those of you who aren't familiar with the UNFCC you have to learn a whole new language if you want to follow the UNFCC process. I'm giving you a little bit of the UNFCC language on this. So the decision is a review of the way the Warsaw International Mechanism and what we are arguing for the least developed countries together with all the other vulnerable countries and now all the developing countries have joined us is we want finance for loss and damage. This is a very highly politically sensitive issue which the developed countries have refused to talk about. They don't want to talk about finance as a taboo subject for loss and damage and we have taken the proposal to open the door here in Madrid for financing loss and damage which we are already getting push back on. We have another five days to work on that. We hope we can do that sir if you'd like to tell us a little bit about the fact that we are now united on this issue sir. Thank you very much. Yes Ali, this loss and damage is a very critical issue for the LDCs. As Ali said, this is a very sensitive issue which the developed countries they don't want to touch on the subject and as you know that that was a national mechanism as I said in the beginning that LDCs are affected by not by the climate change but this loss and damage what we want to put forward as Ali said is that we want to have loss and damage also the arm of loss and damage to discuss more about the loss and damage and also we also want to reflect that loss and damage that we discussed in the COP as well as CFA. Thank you very much. Have you got a sense of where we are in the LDCs? Do you think we might be able to pull this off? As I said that we from the LDCs perspective we are hoping to make some progress but as I said the next few days it's a very critical time and then we always hope let's say optimistic that something positive comes out of this fall otherwise we will be failing the world. Thank you very much. Thank you very much Karma for giving us an insight from the least developed countries perspective in these negotiations and we would like to wish you and all the other developed countries good luck, hope you can maintain just one final observation of mine having been this is now my 25th box I've been to all of them so as a kind of experience of watching these events and also helping the least developed countries in them we often, most of the time don't get our way we are small and less powerful countries but occasionally every now and again we can get our way when we can get everybody united with us on an issue that we feel is morally right right thing to do and those who don't want to do it we push them into acknowledging that they have to do it and you mentioned a little while ago the 1.5 degree temperature long term temperature goal was something that we did achieve in the Paris Agreement we are hoping we can do that again here in terms of getting finance for loss and damage agreed by the end of the week so keep your eyes and ears open and if you can support us there will be some civil society actions during the week in support of our stand we hope all of you will then be able to participate and support us as we go along civil society support is extremely important for the vulnerable countries in the negotiations we can't do it just by negotiating around the table the big countries are far too powerful for the small countries to persuade them to change their mind but civil society actions sometimes we do so please do help us and thank you very much for coming thank you very much