 I too would like to begin by expressing my deep personal sympathy and condolences for the terrible tragedy that was unfolding yesterday and today in the Savar building here in Dhaka. None of us can be in any way unable to be moved by that terrible sight of poor garment workers, the vast majority of the women trapped, killed, wounded and their grieving families. It is a big human rights issue and there I hope will be due accountability in due course. However, I want to focus on the reasons that have brought us together. I'm very pleased to be back in Dhaka and I'm delighted that the reason that I'm here has been to attend this conference on community-based adaptation. I'd like to sincerely thank both IIED and BCAS for all their work in organizing CBA 7. Although it was unfortunate that the field visits could not take place, I believe that we still had a very worthwhile conference here in Bangladesh. I had followed previous CBA conferences from afar since I chaired under the mantle of Kamila Thulman, the board of IIED, and these conferences began. So I'm honored to have the opportunity to be here this year and to learn from the experience of adaptation practitioners. I'd also like to warmly congratulate BCAS and IIED on the launch of their publication, Community-Based Adaptation, Early Learnings from CBA Conferences. It's wonderful to have this flagship publication documenting the approaches, practices, challenges and ways forward for community-based adaptation. This CBA conference fits well with the Climate Justice Dialogue, the joint initiative of the Mary Robinson Foundation. And the World Resources Institute that aims to mobilize political will and creative thinking to shape an equitable and ambitious international climate agreement by 2015. I'm very pleased that Salim Haq sits on the steering committee of the Climate Justice Dialogue, and we benefit greatly both from his expertise and his critical thinking. You know that Salim doesn't pull his punches, and when he means something he says it, and that's very valuable. As I said yesterday, central to the Climate Justice Dialogue is the need to mobilize constituencies. Constituencies right around the globe to demand greater urgency and ambition for climate action. A climate justice narrative that amplifies the voices of the most vulnerable can help to change the conversation on climate change and create a demand for action. By focusing on issues of fairness and justice, including intergenerational justice, a climate justice narrative can serve as a pressure point on the road to an international climate agreement in 2015, as well as the post-2015 development agenda. The Climate Justice Dialogue features a series of convenings or conversations taking place across the globe over the next three years, with a view to creating a narrative, collecting ideas, and building momentum for a new climate agreement. And there will also be a complementary series of evidence-based papers on aspects of equity to help this process. Earlier this month, with leadership from the Government of Chile, climate change negotiators, civil society organizations, and representatives from academia from several Latin American countries gathered together in Santiago to explore what climate justice and equity means to them. Last week in Dublin, my foundation co-hosted with the Irish Government, an EU presidency conference on hunger, nutrition, and climate justice, and a third of those involved were grassroots participants from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Pacific, and the Arctic. I was very pleased that IED facilitated this wide participation and that Camilla Tullman was present and spoke at the conference. The session that took place here yesterday on human rights, equity, and legal aspects of climate change adaptation is the latest conversation that feeds into the climate justice dialogue. The adaptation community has an important role to play in being vocal on the impacts climate change is having on human rights and equity. I'm delighted I had the opportunity to meet with many of you over the last two days. I came to listen and to learn and to hear from you, and I'm very pleased with the participation during yesterday's session. I really enjoyed our table discussions during the session and I'd like to thank many of you for engaging so actively and for completing the feedback sheets that summarized your discussions. On reviewing those feedback sheets, you identified the top three key equity dimensions of community-based adaptation as access to resources, gender inequality, and power relations within the community. The feedback sheets also highlighted that there's a lot that can be done to address these inequities with the convergence of opinion on solutions that focused on empowerment, participation, and access to information. An equitable international climate change agreement will need to give equal emphasis to adaptation and mitigation. The adaptation community has an important role to play in ensuring this happens. A new climate agreement must recognize that action by countries on adaptation counts just as much as action on mitigation. We need the adaptation community to become vocal on the fact that as international climate change agreement is needed because there is a certain point beyond which people won't be able to adapt, a tipping point that we don't want to get to. We also need you to ensure that a new agreement on climate recognizes action by countries on adaptation as well as action on mitigation. So I really urge you to stay engaged with the Climate Justice Dialogue. As I said yesterday, the dialogue that we've commenced with you here this week at CBA 7 is just the beginning. I ask that you continue to work with us over the next two and a half years. Ask yourselves, what can you do to emphasize the urgency and importance of a climate agreement in 2015? How can you help to articulate the equity and justice dimensions of climate change to a wider audience? So the collective action is taken to do the right thing. As some of you may know, I was invited a few years ago in 2007 just before Nelson Mandela's 89th birthday to join a group of elders. I'm actually one of the younger elders, but nevertheless I have to admit I am an elder. And as an elder, I enjoy challenging people. So now I want to challenge you, the community-based adaptation experts. I'd like to challenge you today to be more strategic. And this includes investigating how we can all increase our impact by working closer together. To use your alliances and networks, both formal and informal, to create the sense of urgency required for bold, transformative action on climate change. This includes reaching out to religious networks that can speak of the moral imperative for action. Argue and advocate for a fair, ambitious and binding climate agreement in 2015 and use all available platforms to disseminate the message that a 2015 climate agreement is imperative. Use every opportunity to emphasize that the 2015 climate agreement and post-2015 development agenda must be linked, must be linked at all times. Make people in developed countries care. Use climate justice arguments that we know will resonate. Speak about intergenerational inequity. Tell human-centered stories that appeal to our shared sense of humanity and that people will connect with emotionally. If the people-centered stories on equity and justice aren't being told to the right people, then find a way to tell them to the right people. My hope is that we can work together to further develop the dialogue we've started here this week. We want to build on the momentum we've created here, so please stay in touch with my colleague Mary Faharty, who will be happy to continue these discussions with you. Let's use key milestones, such as COP 19 in Warsaw later this year, which some of you will attend, to link up again and progress this dialogue. Let's use CBA 8 in 2014, which I understand will be in Nepal, as a joint stock-taking exercise where we can update one another on our progress. We need you as a constituency that demands fairness and justice for those who are suffering the most from the impacts of climate change. Please be with us and let's be brave and bold and let's get this climate agreement in 2015. Thank you very much.