 Today is the 25th of April and we are halfway through our CBA eight the Three-day field trip seven of them with 201 people and the one-day trip today with about another 30 or 40 people in two different sites They all came back safely one of them got stuck on the road for a while They had a 16-hour journey which was supposed to have been only a four or five hour journey But they're all back safely, which is good. They had a very good time in the field saw some very interesting activities by local NGOs and national international NGOs on a community-based adaptation tomorrow morning the main conference will be inaugurated by the Prime Minister of Nepal and That will be live webcast or live streamed. It starts at 10 a.m. To 11 a.m. Kathmandu time, which is 14 15 hours GMT and It'll be live web streamed. It'll also be recorded so people can watch it afterwards as well and Then the main conference starts we have 450 people. It's the largest number. We've had from 62 different countries So it's a it's grown enormously since the last time we had the meeting in Dhaka in Bangladesh the theme for this meeting is Financing local adaptation so the focus is on finance Tomorrow we will have with us. He's already here Mama do Hanadia who is the chair of the adaptation fund. He's from Burkina Faso He'll be speaking in the inaugural session and we'll be talking about the adaptation fund We will have the co-chair of the green climate fund coming at the closing on the 30th which will also be addressed by Christiana Figueres the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on climate change and on the 30th we plan to Bring out what we are calling the Kathmandu declaration on Financing local adaptation and we hope that that will be picked up by the media at that time in the meantime For those of you who are interested Please register as a VIP which stands for virtual interactive participant on our website www.cba8.org We have more than 700 VIPs already registered and We hope that we can drop that number up and you can watch the live webcast and ask questions and be interactive We are using the hashtag Twitter hashtag Hashtag CBA 8 Please go on Twitter and follow our events. We've already tweeted quite a lot of information from the field visits people have sent photographs And we encourage you to send us questions on CBA So we hope to make this an interactive experience for those of you who are not in Kathmandu with us