 My name is Jan Rockström. I'm a professor in Global Sustainability Science at Stockholm University and I'm the director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, an incoming director of the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research in Germany. We're an academic institution advancing interdisciplinary science for global sustainability and transformations to a sustainable future embedded in the recognition that the biosphere and ecosystems is the fundament for all our human well-being and the recognition that now that we're entering a more turbulent future on planet Earth having embarked into and created our own geological epoch, the Anthropocene, where we are putting so much pressure on all facets of the environment that we have to build resilience, the capacity to both avoid crossing tipping points, what we call persistence, but also to adapt and transform under changing conditions. So we advance interdisciplinary science of how we can be better stewards of the biosphere from local ecosystems to the planet, but also finding practical strategies for that that builds resilience for development.