And thank you to everybody for joining this closing plenary for the first online CBA conference, CBA 14. We have lots to talk about today. We will be announcing the winners of the Dragons Den competition and the film competition, and we'll be putting together all of the messages that have come out of some incredibly rich discussions that have taken place over the last few days. So without further ado, I think we are going to get on with the proceedings. So we're going to start today with a pre-recorded video from Lord Zach Goldsmith, Minister of State for the Pacific and the Environment, who wanted to share a pre-recorded message with all of the participants at CBA 14. Though I can't join you live today, it is a pleasure to be speaking to you. First, I'd like to thank you all for the fantastic work that you do and for what I'm sure have been productive conversations over the last few days. It's more than likely that the current pandemic, like so many before it, has resulted from our mistreatment and mismanagement of nature. It's caused misery for millions and economic disruption in every country. But the science is clear that if we continue to mistreat and abuse the natural world, the consequences will be far worse. And so we should certainly view it as a wake-up call. And we know that even if we manage to get to grips with cutting our carbon emissions, disruptive change is inevitable. Even with one and a half degrees, for instance, we still risk losing between 70 and 90 percent of our coral reefs, on which a quarter of marine species and 500 million people depend for everything from food to coastal protection. And as we destabilize the climate, we're also fatally undermining Earth's natural systems. More than half of the world's agricultural land is now degraded. And diminishing yields will hit 500 million small farms the hardest. By the time I finish speaking to you today, we'll have lost the equivalent of 150 football pitches worth the forest. Now, those forests are home to 80 percent of the world's terrestrial biodiversity. They regulate our water and climate systems, and they underpin the livelihoods of over a billion people. Now, today governments everywhere are mapping out their plans for economic recovery from the pandemic. Trillions of dollars have been identified for the task, and that means that we have an opportunity. If we choose wisely, we can deploy those funds in a way that helps us transition to a cleaner, more efficient system, one where we're able to live within nature's means. And we can build on the vital adaptation work that you are all doing. There are so many inspiring examples of work already underway around the world. This week we were pleased to be able to host a session with the International Institute of Environment and Development, alongside the United Nations Development Program. And we were able to learn from the Indian experience of integrating climate planning into their largest safety net program to protect the poorest families from extreme poverty or destitution. And your expertise is central, because it's based on a direct experience of what works. As COP26 presidents, we want to amplify your voices so that your experience can inform, inspire and stimulate effective adaptation and resilience at scale. It's why the UK supports the LDC Group-led Life AR initiative, and we encourage others to do so too, so that LDCs can take long-term action to help affected communities take control of building adaptation and resilience. By working together, we can help the world to adapt and protect lives and livelihoods from the effects of climate change. And we'll be encouraging countries to take as inclusive an approach as possible to developing and delivering their NDCs, adaptation plans and long-term strategies. And finally, we know that there is no pathway to net zero emissions without a major effort to protect and restore nature. We know that nature-based solutions could provide around a third of the most cost-effective climate change mitigation that we need by 2030. Well, also helping to reverse biodiversity loss and help people adapt to the changes that are happening. The fact that they attract just 3% of global climate investment makes absolutely no sense at all, so we're urging governments to step up. Last year, our own Prime Minister committed to doubling our international climate finance and to allocating a large proportion of it to nature-based solutions. And we're asking other countries to do similar. As COP26 presidents, we're asking governments to make sure that the nationally determined contributions that they bring to Glasgow next year are genuinely ambitious on mitigation and on adaptation and resilience. We need a clean energy, zero emission vehicles and green finance revolution, and we need the world to match their commitments to protect and restore nature with the scale of the crisis. And we hope you will join us. Thank you so much for all the work that you do. That's great. That was that Goldsmith, Minister of State for Environment and the Pacific and one of the parts of the UK Ministers in the COP26 leadership team. And I want to extend a thank you for recording that message in advance and recognizing the role and expertise that this community can offer in shaping a future policy. So we're going to go straight on now to a video from the chair of the LDC group. It was also recorded a video based on some of the key messages that have emerged from this week. Excellencies, distinguished participants and friends, greetings to you all and welcome from wherever you're connecting around the world. Thank you for participating in the 14th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change, the first to take place entirely online. Bhutan, in our capacity as the chair of the least developed countries group, is honoured to host the final closing secondary session. During the last three days, we have seen over 400 people take part from over 30 countries in over 30 different dialogues and capacity building sessions. They have exchanged hundreds of written messages about the central challenges of community based adaptation. We have heard speakers from over 30 countries share their perspectives, representatives of community based organisations share the floor with national government policy makers, academic academics and development partners. It is also important that messages coming out of the discussions at this conference are heard and recognized at the highest levels. These messages represent the perspectives of people working to build resilience every day and communities at greatest risk of climate change impacts, but we have done the least to cause the problem. The conference's response policy theme highlighted the role of grassroots movements and organisations in bringing local knowledge into policy making process and the positive impact inclusivity can have. Their responses to COVID-19 demonstrate how resourceful communities can be and how much we can learn from them. Local resourcefulness is exactly why we need to scale up climate finance significantly, finding the institutions in each country who truly understand local contexts and communities while having the capacity to deliver funds towards local priorities. At CBA 14, we also heard the challenges faced by young people and the need for greater youth inclusion in decision making from local right through to international level. We welcome the establishment of a youth adaptation network by the Global Commission for Adaptation during this conference. I was also greatly encouraged to see the issues of gender and monitoring, evaluation and learning repeatedly raised and discussed. It is clear that more work is needed to ensure that we can evaluate and learn from our collective climate adaptation experiences. During a session led by partners of LDC Initiative for Effective Adaptation of Resilence, the challenge of establishing deep international networks for learning from adaptation programmes were made clear. The least developed countries group will endeavor to use life here to lead the way in creating south-south learning networks that can make our path to resilient economies by 2050 smoother. In closing, I would like to thank the partners who have made this online CBA 14 possible. I appreciate the Climate Justice Resilence Fund, the Global Resilence Partnership, CARE International, Practical Action, the International Institute for Environment and Development, BRUCC International and the Global Commission on Adaptation. We call on developing partners and contributors as well as our colleagues across the least developed countries to fully engage with the energy, vision and ideas of this vibrant community of practice. We hope that CBA can trigger widespread engagement and productive partnership across the whole of society so that we can create a prosperous and socially just future for all. Between now and COP26, there are several events taking place including the Global Adaptation Summit, Gobi Shona Online and CBA 15 in Bangladesh. These events will offer the chance to continue the conversation we began here and for development partners to engage closely with the communities and their representatives. We look forward to seeing and working with you all over the year ahead. Thank you. Thank you very much to the LDC chair for that video and to the government of Bhutan for hosting this online CBA. We also just wanted to pick up the message was recorded earlier on and since then we've now had 8000 written messages exchanged on the Community Board and participants from 70 countries not 30. So it's been even bigger and more expansive than at the time of the recording of the video. So thank you for that. I'm going to hand over now to Salim Hook who will be the master of ceremonies for the rest of this session. Salim is the director of the International Center for Climate Change and Development in Bangladesh. Thank you very much, Sam and good afternoon. Good evening. Good morning to everybody from all over the world. I see we've got well over 100 participants with us today. We're looking forward to a very, I hope important and informative feedback session and then also a planning session going forward. The format of this session is going to be we have three very distinguished panelists and we'll start with them. And then we will have a feedback on the overall outputs of the various sessions that we had. And we'll also have a discussion on Mentimeter to get some feedback from all of our participants. And then we have a very distinguished representative from the UK government. Ambassador Paul Arkwright who is the UK government COP26 ambassador for sub Saharan Africa. And then before we end we also have the prize for the Dragon's Den initiative that took that took place during the conference and we'll have the winner for that. And we'll also have a winner of the video competition that took place. So quite a lot to pack in. But let me start with our three very distinguished panelists. The first one is player Shakya who is the head of the climate change group in IID the International Institute for Environment and Development who are the organizers of this conference. The 14th CBA conference in the past these all used to be physical conferences with people present and I've been to all 14 of them but this is the first online one. Online one that we've had. And so a great I think kudos for all our colleagues in IID for pulling it off very, very well. So I'll ask her to give some reflections. The second panelist is David Silakan who is from Paran Alliance in Kenya. It's an alliance of advocates for pastoralists in northern Kenya. We'll hear from him. And then the third and final panelist is Miss Runa Khan who is runs an NGO in Bangladesh called Friendship which is has been working for 20 years with vulnerable communities in very vulnerable parts of the country, which also now happen to be very climate vulnerable and so they are now working on adaptation to climate change very much at the community level. So I have in this round in the first round I'm going to ask them two questions and I'll ask them to answer the first one first and then I'll come back to them and if if you can keep your initial comments within a couple of minutes that would be good. The first question to Claire is again it and to all three of you but to starting with Claire, given the role of the work that you do, and you can describe that a little bit if you like, what were from your point of view the major outcomes of or the highlights of CBA 14 that you were able to participate in and your colleagues as well from IID if you have any reflections from their side. Claire would you like to take the floor. Thanks Salim. Well in this strange year where we've all been based from home for most of it. I was really hoping that CBA would inspire me with the stories of action and influence and I certainly felt that that was achieved. In IID the climate change group are working with the LDC group in the climate negotiations as well as in their long term initiatives. The salimas and the luck the LDC university consortium for climate change and building capabilities within the LDC countries and on the effective adaptation life they are. We also work on more broadly on climate governance and climate finance challenges and building partnerships that engage and amplify the voices those who are often excluded. And what's so wonderful about CBA is it brings that community together the range of partners that we work with. There are all really championing responses to multi dimensional challenges and we heard so many stories of how the grassroots women and youth particularly a championing collective and holistic responses and influencing their national governments that their donors the international community more widely. Two of the things that really sort of has resonated and are staying with me the inclusion first the inclusion is essential at every step it requires effort and it requires dedicated resources to get beyond that tokenistic participation that we hear so much of. For CBA itself we really saw that this year with youth and the grassroots organizations leading more session development than ever before and really challenging us and improving our focus on inclusion across all the sessions. And this sense of the there's a real value of multi multiple perspectives on wicked problems. But that these different stakeholders, grassroots communities, actors at different levels are all bringing different these different perspectives. They also bringing very different resources and connections. And if we're going to get this sort of distributed innovation for really transformational change, we need to keep working on that inclusion. And then the second was around partnerships, not not beneficiaries of support or or beneficiaries of capacity building and CBA again embodied this for me by inviting us all to contribute sessions to share skills and ideas and opportunities like the dragons then to really think through over a number of days how to pitch something I thought was was really exciting. And this, it came across again and again and it's come up in previous CBAs that, you know, local actors are the knowledge holders and are very creative in developing new types of solutions. But I guess what we got deeper into is how to build those radical collaborative partnerships that can disrupt power dynamics, and that real sense of aggregation that that we get power in numbers and we can be more influential. And I guess for me CBA was a real opportunity to get a sense of how we've all learned over the last year, how we've responded to COVID-19, and how, how similarly the issues of responding to COVID-19 resonate with responding to climate change. Thanks. Thank you very much Claire. Excellent set of outcomes and I agree with you the, the online nature of the event I don't think was that big a barrier to participation I felt in the sessions that I was part of and I agree with you there. So let me now move on to David Silakan from Kenya. David, would you like to share your thoughts in terms of what the highlights of the conference were and maybe if you could keep it within two to three minutes. Good afternoon everyone. Good morning. Good evening. Whatever we are. My name is David Silakan, coordinating partner alliance, which is a network of more than 23 CA source in Northern Kenya, and we are looking at building social movements around common issues, common solutions that are homegrown. In doing so, we engage with different user groups, the forest communities, we work with the water resource users communities, we work with the youth, we work with women, we work with the informal and informal institutions like the Council of Elders, the environmental users, and also the Fisher folks hunter gatherers. So we have a good mix of CS source, where we are looking at how we can create movements from the smallest unit of the society to the top limb of the society where we can influence decision making influence as we say, create innovative, indigenous knowledge, best tested practices to build on resilience of our communities, and also to look at the security and security of our land, which has been now the target of investments, the target of extractive industries, which are also a hazardous to climate resilience, and which affect the people's livelihoods economies, and what we are dealing now is how we are going to reduce the carbon emissions. So in this regard, Parana lands, in its structures, works to focus on three things, amplifying the voices of the grass roots, indigenous people, securing their land channel, and mobilizing resources and influencing policy to access resources so that they can do this. COVID pandemic has just came as an opportunity whereby the cognition of the grass roots communities, self organizing in addressing this pandemic, creating awareness, solidarity has already given us a chance to see that grass roots can offer solutions that can lead to global global reduction of pandemics. So in this CBA, my message is, if the governments committed themselves to giving multiple resources, multiple billion dollars to address COVID-19, which is just last year's pandemic, which is not even one year old, and we have climate change that has been with us for several years, can we have that commitment, and that robust way of making that commitment to this being a fruitful thing for the next COP. As they come to the next COP, let them make that commitment, a robust commitment that includes the youth, that includes the grass roots, and making accessible the funding so that the grass roots can also respond with their own initiatives, the way they have responded to COVID-19. Thank you so much. Thank you very much, David. That was excellent. And I think the point about tying it to the COVID-19 pandemic and particularly the investments that are going into the new normal as it were, I think is a very key element in terms of rethinking the business as usual and trying to get out of some of the problems that we had in the past. So let me now move to our third panelist who is Runa Khan from Friendship in Bangladesh. Runa, I know you and your colleagues are participating in a CBA conference for the first time, so I'd be interested in getting your impressions on what your experience has been in this particular conference. Runa, you have the floor. Thank you so much. So I would like to first congratulate you on IIED and all of you who have been, who have enabled this platform to take the CBA online, because it's not only that online conferences are going on, and they're all happening well, but the quality and the organization of this conference with over 550 participants have been incredible. So firstly, my congratulations to all of you.  And this, I think, all of us, every day that we have listened to the conference, this has come out more and more. And this has been so linked to the present crisis that that oneness and togetherness of everyone understanding and being for the first time perhaps on the same platform of having a crisis at their doorstep, I think has also strengthened the understanding of this conference. So I'm Runa Khan and 20 years ago I started working in the most climate impacted regions of Bangladesh. We did not realize that these were the areas which were climate impacted, but rather that these were the most vulnerable communities with populations which needed to move, sometimes several times a year. And we started service delivery so that these migratory communities, every time they moved they would be empowered to lead a dignified life. So I started the first mobile ship hospitals, schools, and of course access to finance and finally the linkages with the government serving over today, more than 6.5 million people every year with direct service delivery with Bangladesh having 170 million people. We still have a long way to go. The one of the things that I've really felt about this conference is, you know, that both nature based solutions in both for nature based solutions and for climate based solutions, you have said, and you have heard over and over again, knowledge is key and learning is crucial. There is something more. It is that we have learned that if you are not in, if you just do projects, or just do trials and pilots, then it doesn't really work because the communities need to be empowered and for that, dignity, bringing dignity to the community in whatever work you do is essential. And the stakeholders, I would say, need to have a lot more humility, all of us as stakeholders, you know, it's not the scientists, it's not the academicians, it's not the people with who have fundings and money, it's not us NGOs who are either the policymakers or the mute activists, you know, who are alone going to make this change. We have heard over the last four days, such incredible movements from all sectors, so everybody needs to be on board. And I think this is extremely important. And the way we work, we should not do anything which provokes wrong actions, because that has a synergetic effect, you know, leading to decision makers which are wrong, or involvement of governments which are not in the right way or people in the right way. And for this, I have to mention that Elena Ostrom, who was the Nobel Prize winner for economics in 2009, had also observed this and also an observation of your team, which is do no harm. And this is also very important for us, I think, to absorb and take home. Thank you very much for those excellent experiences that you got from the conference.  I hope friendship will now be able to become one of the champions in climate change adaptation, as well as all the other good work that you've been doing as well. So now, just to let you know, the panelists, you will, I will ask you to come back at the very end again to reflect a little bit about what happens next after we've heard about a bit more from the conference itself. So you'll get another bite of the cherry later. But let me give you a minute each of you now to maybe just give a little bit of what your major messages one or two, or so that you think are the big takeaways from your perspective of any particular session it doesn't have to be everything covering everything, but particular sessions that you felt that something came out that you felt was significant that you would like to maybe work on or take back to your colleagues and and think about going, doing some more work on that. And I'll go back to Claire first and then David, and then runa Claire. Thanks, Selim. Gosh, I'm really enjoying my other panelists comments as well. It's great to be part of this community. It's so rewarding. So, okay, my top messages. Well, we're going to hear the sort of distillation of the CBA messages more generally, but I guess the things that I'd highlight. One is around connecting. So we talked a lot over the last few days about vertical connection as well as horizontal connection integrating the sort of national international with the local, as well as broadly across stakeholders and in CBA we had that full range as the LDC chair, himself said, with the incoming presidency represented the LDC group, the donors, MDBs, we had commissioners from GCA with Sheila and Moosa, but there's been a huge range of different actors. And what we were talking a lot about was the need to engage these different actors very early in the process, the private sector needs to be involved in developing thinking that we're developing approaches we want them to invest in. We need to engage national governments and donors early in those processes. So they're part of the learning and that requires different ways of engaging them. But if we don't do that, they're not convinced by the evidence and they don't become part of co producing the approaches. We also heard about how at the local level the poor are multitasking with a range, responding to a range of different shocks and challenges. And when we bring the local much more into our approaches, we're beginning to develop more holistic approaches to the range of interlinked shocks and increasing synergies. So that's my first was around connecting. The other, the next was around changing incentives for giving agency. So we really have to, and this is I suppose what we've been doing in IID with the money where it matters work that so many of you have already helped us develop. But we have to think through deliberately how we change incentives for the actors throughout the delivery chain and so that they are incentivized to invest in the capabilities of these many distributed institutions. And some of the ideas that came out from that was around how do we increase the downward accountability. So, so the delivery actors are responsible for how the, how the local partners are engaged and how they see the benefits as well. And that requires changing how they're accountable to donors. So deliberate analysis is needed is sort of more top down bottom up incentive setting. And one of the things I really enjoyed was the cartoon session on really thinking this through and some of the sort of visualization of the challenges that we're facing. I think using humor could be a really good way of us influencing in the coming year. And then my final thought was on, it's actually the one that came up from the CJRF team around celebrating courage. We need it to lean into risk if we're going to enable transformation and we saw, you know, just from since last CBA where we had the LDCs consulting with this community around their relief division and huge progress being made on that that we had the GCA consulting around the locally led action track. So we're beginning to get that sort of traction with our with our partners. And really we need to sort of focus our efforts in the coming year to feed into a real change in how we tackle climate change offer COP26 team a real a really clear proposition for how to do that. Thanks. Thank you very much Claire some very, very good messages. David, some quick reflections on takeaway messages for you. Um, my first is let's stop the blame game. And since COVID has brought us in an equal balance. Let's now start and move step by step. The power brokers, the people with the money, the grassroots, the youth and everyone sing the same song. Yes, act now. That's the only message I'll take home. The second one. How do you break the power dynamics in such a way that we have an equilibrium where we come on around table and we give each other moments to reflect on the predicaments and looking at the solutions together with the resources that we have. Lastly, the digital technology has linked us together. How do you promote this so that we move forward in terms of connectivity in terms of collaborations in terms of even messaging and in terms of informing each other when we have such issues. The CBA has taught me that connectivity in terms of digital technology. And now that we are moving to have the digital tools on climate information systems, could we make them a custom to the communities so that they can actually predict and give changes and monitor. What happens within our environments and clients. Thank you so much. Thank you very much, David. Excellent. I think, you know, you've touched on something that extremely important, which is, and there's a very interesting debate going on or discussion going on in the chat box on whether we should make CBA an online event every year going forward. I can tell you that the hosts for next year, CBA 15 are going to be here in Bangladesh, and it's going to be black. And they are very much looking forward to people coming and visiting and seeing them. So let's see. We don't want to go 100% online. If we can get people to come, we would like them to come. But we would, at the same time, we don't want to lose the opportunity that being digital enables a huge number of people from all over the world, not to have to fly. You know, it brings on our carbon footprint in a very big way. So let's see, you know, think about that as we go forward. Runa, I'll give you the last word in this round and then we'll come back to all three of you at the end. Runa, take away messages. So we started with Mr. Vande what he had said that despite the pandemic climate change continues and we are seeing this. The way that Mrs. Rosferi Atiana brought down said that indigenous knowledge is the key factor. Sheila said vulnerability is connected to all vulnerability today is connected to climate change. Mr. Moosa that unlocking local capabilities. Actually, this is the theme on which we have worked. You know, these four messages are very strong and they have, you know, and they are the central theme for me. And the most important thing is that to now is a kind of a time to make a plea to decision makers to have more trust in actions which are going on in the field because you see they are not. We have to stop pilot projects from happening. We don't need pilots anymore. We can. There are enough, there's enough word going on, enough actions being shown in the field, you know, for people to take action. For example, our mangrove for the friendship mangrove project, you know, this is we are the largest player, you know, making in the private sector replantation. So there are hundreds of things that thousands that we have seen examples going on and we want them to have more trust the institutions, the policymakers and funders to have more trust in us. Those who are at the field and this solidarity and trust, you know, is needed for scaling up friendship has been doing this we have been linking this for years now. But it's needed, but now it needs to be scaled up and CBA is in the perfect position to be able to link us together and and and this is what you're doing. And perhaps for the GCA next year, you know, in January and of course the cop this needs to be central because what is available does not need to be reinvented. And to have more trust in those organizations which have shown impact at the field level to scale up and create changes. And I think this is something that I would like to bring forth, you know, for the next conferences also. Thank you. Thank you very much, Runaan and hopefully friendship will be able to play a big part in that as we will be hosting it here in Bangladesh next year. Great. So it's now. Thank you all to our three panelists. We will be coming back to you. So please stay with us. And I'm now going to hand over to Susan Nandudu, who is from Uganda and she has been leading the climate finance track of the CBA conference, but she's going to give us an overview of the outcomes from all five sessions. And then following that we will have a mentor discussion where we get inputs from everybody who's online with us now, and then we will come back again and do a bit of reflection. After we've all heard the outputs from the conference. So Susan, you have the floor. Thank you so much for the invitation, the introduction. I want to thank IID for allowing me the opportunity to lead in the climate finance. My role here is a challenging one, which is to present to you the key messages after all the hard work in the last four days. And I pray that I will do justice to all the themes in the messages that will be shared here below next Sunday. Good. So I'll speak now to the messages from the NatureBest solutions. We had several and we've chosen to keep the top three. And here in the NatureBest solutions, the first is that we need integrated approaches to adaptation, including NatureBest solutions that address key intellect social challenges, society challenges including climate change and biodiversity loss and build holistic resilience to future and anticipated global challenges. The key point there is integrated approaches and it's not enough to think and plan in one way. But integration, integration, integration. Secondly, social capital and collective actions are critical to building resilience for those intelligent society challenges. Although it takes time to build, we have learned that within the communities, there is a lot of social capital that needs to be acknowledged and recognized a lot more. So governments, donors and development partners need to provide long-term finance, underscore that, to provide long-term finance and support to build strong local best collective organizations. The previous speakers have spoken to this, but we need that to mobilize support and scale up NatureBest solutions for adaptation at scale and in the long term. These key terms have kept coming over and over through these last three days. The third is that indigenous people, women, local communities, they are already championing NatureBest solutions and they hold valuable traditional knowledge that we need to build on. We need to build on their decades of experience of implementing those integrated solutions. We have listened to lots of examples and it is now upon us to recognize this capacity and move forward with it. So this traditional knowledge needs to be linked with science. It's no longer enough to just talk about indigenous knowledge, indigenous knowledge. We need to take that into linkage with science and support it with enabling policies. The adaptation technology theme spoke to issues of scale up and how to attract financing using adaptation technologies. And one of the core messages that we are taking home is that we need to build the evidence base in order to attract financing, in order to attract private sector to invest in building adaptation technologies. And what do we need to build this evidence base? Some of the things that were spoken to include having a clear social economic case and presenting and using human stories. The stories are many, they are just not being articulated enough. The private sector, for example, does not consider some of the adaptation technologies viable enough for business. So it is our responsibility as a community to use human stories to make the evidence base more solid. The other is a financial case or speaking to business models for small holders and investors to make investments. It came out quite strongly that in part of building the evidence base, we need, although we have been mostly non-governmental civil society, we need to consider conducting market analysis to understand who are markets, who the target market is for the adaptation technologies and that they should speak to the needs of the people. Secondly, adaptation technologies came up with that governments need to get incentives right. I'll say that again. Governments need to get incentives right to create an enabling environment for investment in and uptake of adaptation technologies by communities. For example, solar powered irrigation, we spoke to, we had examples from mobile technologies and several technologies that are mobile updelivered through mobile apps. They need a conducive environment. It might take a shape of taxation. It might take a completely different approach, but we need to look into incentivizing and having an environment that encourages adaptation technologies to be invested in so that local enterprises can deliver the hardware services and help build adaptive capacity. Very, very critical. This came up and I would also like to add my voice to thank the young people for speaking this loudly that young people can be drivers of new technology and be knowledge brokers. This is especially so the case. It has been made more valid or visible through this COVID-19 context, which has created opportunities for digital solutions such as online marketing to be spread out faster across the globe. And the engagement of young people in agriculture and rural economies has also been largely enabled through these technologies. So the responsive policy case spoke to the issue of building trust. I don't know, I don't want to be so fast on that one, but yes, building trust amongst the communities that when community members are given opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge in practice as organized and empowered agents of change that really encourages to responses to resources such as information, finance, decision making, power, the importance of building trust within the communities was really underscored that external players, governments, donors, private sector need to trust the communities more. Secondly, we spoke to the INGOs and mouth latches. They have a huge opportunity called convening power and we use that space to open doors to enable local actors to have a seat at the table, a decision making table, so that they share experiences so that they can help aggregate voices and also expose decision makers to local reality. Finally, policy needs to recognize the multi-dimensional nature of risk. We have experienced COVID everywhere and the multitasking required to manage the many different hazards. In climate finance, oh God, so we spoke largely to the need for longer-term investment that has been said over and over, I'll not speak so much to it, but to emphasize that information needs to flow to the communities and build their capacities including the institutions at the community level to create better financial mechanisms. We need financing at the local level and all this capacity is required. Secondly, they need to take a more deliberate approach to shaping incentives for different actors along the value chain or climate finance delivery. In particular, policy and subsidy combinations create positive loops of added benefits and enhance participation. They need to be considered. And finally, funders, they must begin to see success beyond concrete results and output. So, can we encourage and recognize learning and especially learning from failure so that we do not repeat mistakes that other financial resources have helped us experience so consequently more flexible funding arrangements are essential to operationalize this. Next is the youth inclusion theme. Oh, I love it. It has come out with strong messages that we need a clearer path towards youth inclusion in policy advocacy. And the youth are telling us that at events like this one, international events like the conference of parties, youths are usually invited, the same people are invited, but they are telling us that there is a lot more diversity among the youth that needs to be considered. They are youth in informal businesses. They are youth across various countries that need to be brought on table and be part of especially these high level forums. Secondly, they know that the scientific evidence is good for policy development. But scientific evidence needs to look past science and become more inclusive to be understood by them. And speaking to they as young people, they need capacity to understand climate change better, to communicate it better and to be able to use their energy and resources to articulate the science better. Thirdly, is when the capacity development is done, there is need to follow up. They are talking about taking stock of what has been implemented. Where are the gaps? What can we as the leaders in decision making spaces commit to? And when we do commit, they want to come back and say, you committed last year to this issue. We'd like to know how much you have implemented under that commitment. So capacity in that area is equally important, but very, very importantly, the young people are telling us that while they need the capacity and while we are inviting them to spaces like this one to engage, many are doing so in a voluntary basis. They are invited as volunteers. They are saying they have the right to earn for the work, for the time and for the innovation that they invest in. So we need to look into ensuring pay for the young people. On gender, the conversation in this conference has revealed that as a community, we are not capturing gender enough. We need to do a lot more. It was revealed that the high level conversations such as climate finance didn't speak in concrete terms around issues of gender. So as a community, we still have a lot of work. And when you have the issue of gender articulated, sometimes it is skewed more to the women, but we really know that gender is more than men and women. On the issue of monitoring, evaluation and learning, we have learned that male can be a transformational and participatory tool. If it uses shared and peer learning, we need to integrate this more and we must be, a male must be long term just like climate finance. We need to consider it in the long term and we must explore how well we can integrate this. And finally, next slide. We on the rural and urban perspective, very critical information coming out that the urban perspective is not well articulated, but going forward, there is need for scaling up of the distributed innovation and COVID-19 has shown us a lot of innovation in the urban areas. But we need to scale up these projects that are scattered and keep the momentum. Secondly, is on disruptive resilience. There is huge potential if we recognize informality. There's a lot of informality within the urban areas. There's local innovation going on and we need to harness that to ensure the unique properties of the urban areas are integrated over time. And finally, as I speak to the last, which is we must establish structured networks with knowledge brokers such as universities and centers of excellence. That's the administrative of the local governments or the urban governments so that they can play a linkage role and the brokering role that supports urban resilience, knowing that in urban centers, people are always moving. But if we have platforms that are dynamic and they bring all this value, then that can remain for a longer term. That's the permanence that will remain and keep rolling forward as people change in the urban areas. Yes. That is the last one. Thank you. Apologies that I had to do it so fast, but thank you so much. So we're going to go now to a quick mentor meter to try and gauge the priorities of everyone who's joined this call today. So the code for the presentation is nine six four seven five nine six. And if you go to menti.com www.menti.com and enter that code. You should find it. So the first one asked you to describe your experience at CBA 14. These are coming in quickly now insightful coming out strong more and more coming in quickly now insightful. Engaging awesome. I like that one interactive inspirational. Excellent. It's really great to see that CBA is generating all of these very positive words and the same sorts of words that we like to hear in the in person conference as well and it's great that we've been able to create that kind of experience. So we'll just give it another 15 seconds and then we'll move quickly on to the next ones which will ask you to engage a bit more closely with some of the priorities. Now we are short on time. So we'll go through them quite quickly. The presentation does remain so you can carry on doing it even whilst we're not presenting it. You should still be able to share your perspectives and priorities and the priorities that we take from that we will feed into the key messages that we report from the conference. So Matt if you want to go on to the next slide and Susan do you want to perhaps read out what these options are. Okay so would like to explore which of these do which of these do we need to communicate urgently. One is funders must consider longer term investment to build sustainable institutions and capacities. The second is we must change the incentives so that funders can funders see learning as an element of success. The third is to build the capacities of young people so they can lead and innovate and pay them for their time. The last is COVID-19 is an opportunity to change the way we deliver finance and resilience building. I like what I see. You're already addressing them. Right a good level of endorsement for some of these messages I think. Yes. This one at the top. Okay another 10 seconds on that one. You should still be able to continue to vote even if we've moved on so don't worry if you can't do that. Okay on to the next one Matt. Okay it's the same for this one. Yeah let's go for it. Which of these do we need to communicate urgently. But we must consider multi-dimensional resilience in the way we understand local risks and mail. No let me let you process it since you're already calling. Go ahead. And if you can't join Mentimeter or you're struggling with it do you feel free to share your comments in the chat box as well. Some really strong endorsement here but particularly for Indigenous people being able to champion. Recognizing that they're already championing their own solutions and being supported by science and policy. Excellent. Okay the next one Matt and the third and final one now. Which of these do we need to communicate more urgently. INGOs and multilaterals must use their convening power. Someone's gone straight in with 10 out of 10 for those top two. Building equitable partnerships. Youth inclusion needs to get beyond tokenism in young people because they're not currently diversely represented. Building trust. Trust is built when communities are given the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge in practice as organized and empowered agents of change. More work is needed to recognize how mail can be participatory and develop indicators that reflect the multidimensional nature of climate and risks. So strong endorsement for all of these so far which is really positive particularly for trusting in communities who have already demonstrated their knowledge and building that trust through practice. Trusting them as organized and empowered agents of change. Great. Okay. Now the last slide will ask you to share comments for the future. So Matt next slide please. Some of them are already coming in ensuring communities are leading the fight. Amplifying voices of those who haven't been heard. Creating local ownership. Excellent. So please do keep submitting those and thank you so much for helping us with that prioritization. And it's great to see that the messages are widely endorsed by the community. I think we'll hand back now to Salim. Great. Thank you very much Sam and Susan for an excellent run through even though it was a little bit rushed. I think it was quite rich. So thank you very much. So at this point in time we're very fortunate to have with us a special guest is Mr. Paul Arkwright who is the UK government's COP26 regional ambassador to sub Saharan Africa which is a role which involves building international engagement in the lead up to COP26 climate conference next November. He previously worked as the British High Commissioner to Nigeria and has served in many other international roles. So Paul you have the floor to just share some of your reflections on what you heard. And in particular if you wouldn't mind giving us some advice on how you see these might be brought into the COP26 agenda particularly the adaptation and resilience track of COP26. Yeah thanks very much Sam. Just checking that you can hear me as this is the first time. You're fine. Yeah great. Thank you. Well I've only just joined the last hour or so and it's clearly been an excellent conference and many congratulations to the organisers. What I particularly like about it is that you're making very clear recommendations which are actionable. And so we will obviously gather all this evidence we'll work with with Claire and the team and feed it into our preparations for COP26. I do think that community based action is something which by the way not just in climate change but elsewhere I saw it in operation in northern Nigeria for example. Community based action is a fundamental part of the solution. And especially in somewhere like Africa which is basically not responsible for emissions. How they we can tap into community based actors in order to find solutions for the world and not just for Africa. So really important discussion and thank you very much. And I picked up on some of those themes as we were going through. Finance and long term finance one of them absolutely. So I think in the past far too much international climate funding and finance has gone to mitigation. I think the amount at the moment is something like 90 or the proportion is 90 percent going to mitigation and the rest of adaptation. We really need to shift that we need to move it much more towards a 50 50 split. And that was one of the reasons why the UK together with Egypt was pushing this call for action at the UN Climate Action Summit last year. We've got 118 countries signed up 80 organizations signed up for that. There are some very practical and tangible results which we're hoping to achieve from that. And one of those is around financing and access to finance. So this is a really important angle. We need to move beyond the hundred billion dollars a year goal. We're not there yet and yet we need to go beyond it and mobilize and galvanize not just donors but multinational development banks and crucial the private sector in order to reach and indeed surpass that target. So building on their call for action at the climate action summit improving response and preparedness to climate related disasters. So we're very actively involved. We've provided quite a lot of funds to reap. Some of you will I'm sure you've talked about reap risk informed early action partnership really important global network which is again looking at practical assistance when it comes to disaster preparedness. So how can we improve warning systems? How can we improve meteorological forecast? How can we use the digital digital technology which I know has been a key part of adaptation technology that you've been talking about. How can we build capacity locally to act in advance of climate disasters and climate shocks so that we can minimize loss and damage from from those. So again that's an important angle to what we're trying to achieve through our efforts as co-president. Encouraging parties in the run up to produce ambitious adaptation plans. So this is part of what we call the ambition agenda. So it's around it's it's around NBC's obviously and long term strategies where we want to see and we're encouraging adaptation to be a key part of those national plans. So national action plans bringing in innovative technologies to help with implementation and seeing how the donor community when it comes to LBC's how the donor community can provide the right kind of investments for that those adaptation technologies. Building support for LDC led initiatives and LDC owned initiatives. Again and this goes a bit a bit to that inclusion and diversity pieces around ensuring that LDC voices are heard as part of the process. And that's very much part of my role as the Africa regional ambassador so that I am providing a listening here as well as a sort of channel of communication so that these kind of messages we can feed back to our ministers to adopt Sharma who's the co-president as you know. And indeed to senior colleagues in the teams who are working on the negotiations track the ambitions track and the five campaigns that we have I won't go into all the details of those but they do match very much the themes which you have been discussing over the past few days. One of those is nature and nature based solutions. Nature is very much at the front line of climate change and is affected more than pretty much any other sector but is also one of those sectors which can provide answers. So we're looking at sustainable land use forestry at ways in which we can help in in countries which have been devastated by climate change and where there's a nature based solution on at hand. And I know you've heard the video from Lord Goldsmith who's a particular advocates of nature based solutions and the importance of biodiversity and ensuring that biodiversity is not seen as a separate track to climate change but very much part of that holistic approach that we need to take in order to tackle those challenges. And finally, it was good to hear and I'm not surprised that the emphasis on youth. I spoke two days ago to a youth activist group in Africa called the resilient 40, which like this group has come up with lots of innovative and interesting ideas, but very similar things have come through you know we want to avoid to be heard. We're part of the solution and we are you need to take responsibility for ensuring that our generation doesn't suffer in the same way. And so those are voices which are important and we are working on how we can ensure that the cop the event itself in Glasgow next year is inclusive is diverse and and doesn't just give you the voice as a kind of side event or something which is. I think tokenistic was a word that was used. So how can we engage youth with the policy makers with the leaders who are going to be there. And how can we give them a voice, not just sort of shouting from the sidelines, but actually a seat at the table. And it's not just about youth it's about women it's about indigenous people very important in this context as well it's about people with disabilities. So we have a whole team in the cop unit who are looking at that sort of inclusion agenda. There'll be more on that to come before anybody raises it visas I know is a massive issue and we are talking to our home office about visas, as you would expect selling. We don't know yet obviously it's a bit too early to say the degree to which this will be a physical cop or a virtual cop in much the same way you're talking about CBA 15 and how that's going to look and hopefully it will be in Bangladesh and you will have visitors spending money in Bangladesh which will be excellent for the economy as well as there are there are pluses and minuses when it comes to the climate side of it. And you certainly it's our intention to hold a physical cop. And there are certain things like negotiations and those kind of crucial meetings which happen in the margins, and which help people build the necessary networks, which we want to, we don't want to lose. But much will depend on the track and the future of COVID as we go forward. So those are some of the thoughts that have come out of this or my responses at least to some of those key messages which have come across. Please do ensure that the cop unit gets those. I can add my voice to those who thanks Susan for a brilliant job in identifying and presenting those messages and feed them in. And I will ensure along with my colleagues that they are taken taken into account taken to heart and be part of our own implementation and action plan and not just a sort of nice to have on the sidelines. Thanks very much for the invitation and I've enjoyed the short period that I've been with you. Thank you. Thank you very much, Paul. We really appreciate your spending the time with us and sharing your thoughts just a couple of very quick points that you on what you mentioned on the youth issue which we've all recognized as being very important. It's interesting that today happens to be the day of action of the Fridays for future and they're having events all over the world. It's now evening Dhaka time and in Bangladesh we've had a whole series of events all around the country by young people and the theme for this today's day of action is most affected people and areas, which is very relevant for the community The other point I'd like to just highlight for you is that the nexus between nature based solutions and adaptation and resilience which are two sort of parallel tracks in the COP26 actually come together very much at the community level. Many of the communities that are doing adaptation are also very dependent on nature and on ecosystems and nature based solutions of adaptation or ecosystem based adaptation is a very, very cross cutting issue at that particular level. And the two themes come together very closely something to think about as we go forward but thank you very much for being with us today and sharing your thoughts. So we are now sort of running a little bit out of time, a little behind schedule. So I'd like to come back to our three panelists and I'll go in reverse order this time. Invite Runa first and then David and then finally Claire if you can be brief. And the question for each of you now is what are you going to do tomorrow or day after tomorrow after the conference is over and you go back to your work. Is there something that you think you can take back into your day job as it is as it were in the work that you're going to do going forward. Runa would you like to start. Thank you. Well, I would actually put the question in a different way. How are you all and the world going to take what we are already doing. Good question. Because we, and I can, I think I can speak on behalf of many, you know, so many organizations who have been present with you throughout the conference. We have been giving real solutions with work, you know, with our work over years. And we need your help and people like, of course, Mr Paul was just spoken to be voices and not only to be voices to act, act in taking us forward, you know, and because it's only together that we can. We are, we are speaking so much on, on what to do, but solutions are there. Of course, you need, you need the whole, whole platform of stakeholders, you know, but I think we are not going to the those who are suffering today will not stop suffering tomorrow, you know, just because there is hope in the future. So I think there, that is something that we need to have compassion empathy, you know, for those. And I think that the voices that the way that you have through CBA, that's that CBA has with IID and all of you together, what you have been doing for bringing these voices up to the level over the years, you know, from mitigation solution of 90% being funded, you know, to to I think now becoming a strong voice, this needs to be carried forward. And I think every action that we do will, we will, we will have to do this together. And we hope for more linkage more solidarity between the different stakeholders and players. And that is the actions that we take. Thank you. Thank you very much for David, would you like to just share some reflections on what you think you can take back with you. Yes, my reflection is, I emphasize or reiterate what Paul just said that community based action is quite fundamental. And just open doors for grassroots communities for local communities for indigenous people to ensure that they claim their space, could their voices be the voice of reason for the job, so that everything changes now, instead of remaining on the realm of 1% few making 50% punished or get the repercussion of climate change impacts. So for me, it's to go with the social movement, continue to pursue policymakers influence the grassroots, create linkages between government between donors and between the grassroots themselves, and solidify those efforts, so that we have a unison way of looking at the framework of climate change adaptation. Thank you. Thank you very much, David. And finally, Claire, what's IID going to be doing on Monday morning. See with an invitation that Paul just offered us just to feed the messages into the COP team that will be our working very hard to make sure that that happens and really appreciate the effort by the COP 2016 with Paul joining but also hearing from Zach. And I guess there is a big opportunity for this community to keep influencing COP26 and keep building support by into the locally led climate action that we've been discussing here, because we're beginning to see that real commitment to locally led action. The second thing is, I guess we've still to really find what the burning boat is that will change incentives to create the sort of disruptive partnerships we've been talking about. And yesterday, in between CBA 14 sessions, I joined the LDC's UNGA event. The wonders of online. You can jump from one conference to another. And Ashok Sharma, as the UK COP president as a net was promising to champion locally led climate action and the LDC's life they are initiative, which is fabulous to hear what we need to do is build and and broaden that partnership. So hopefully working very closely with yourself, Celine, with the Bangladesh interest in in promoting locally led action. You know, how can we begin to build that out? It's much broader coalition. So I guess the third thing is, it's not just a job of IID, it's up to us all to feed our messages into the events between and into events into different processes that we have access to. So we've got, we've potentially got a DNC days this year that would be held under the understanding risk for us. Well, as soon as we've got that confirmed, we'll share that becoming the end of November, early December at some point, we'll have about 20 about a day's worth of session within somebody else's event. And we've also got the Biodiversity Summit. We've got Govashana next year. We've got next year's CBA. We've got the Dutch Climate Adaptation Summit. These are all moments and processes that we can all as long as we're all working collectively with really influence. So that that is my request is that, you know, this isn't about what IID does is about what we do as a community. Oh, and I should mention that for those of you that haven't registered yet, the post after this session, there's a meeting between the civil society and the UK COP team, advancing the climate adaptation and resilience agenda, keep you up momentum. And I think the link of how to share that has been shared by the CBA organisers in through the usual email. Thanks. Great. Thank you very much, Claire. That's a big agenda and and we wish you luck. And obviously we'll be working together on this. So not just you, it's you and us taking that forward. So let's all I'll give a hand to our panelists and our our chief guest Paul Arkwright for excellent interventions. I think we we're getting good momentum and positive feedback for how we can take things forward. We have a few more items to do and we are running a little bit out of time so we might have to go over time by a little bit. I hope people can stay on. I'm now going to invite Jan Willem, who is going to tell us who won the Dragon's Den initiative. So Jan, would you like to take the floor and tell us what happened? Yes, thank you very much. We had a very energetic, inspiring day of action yesterday with eight project holders presenting their idea in five minutes. They had short preparation time, but it was very strong, very strong candidates. It was difficult for the Dragons, the four Dragons that we had to choose the winner. But I will now announce the winner. And I would ask this pitcher to come forward and present to us in one minute. She, most of the pitchers were women, young women. I would like to ask Inesa Grace from Rwanda to come forward and present her project Rural Community in the Sustainable Economic Development. Inesa Grace is CEO and founder of the Green Fighter and she won the Dragon's Den of this year. Inesa, congratulations. You were a very strong candidate. Of course it was as always difficult to choose for the Dragons, but you stood out with your project and with your presentation. So please, in one minute, could you tell us what your idea is about? Thank you so much. Can you hear me? First of all, thank you so much for this great news. I was not expecting this. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. So the project is called Rural Community in the Sustainable Economic Development. The project is aiming to conserve a natural forest located in one of the rural sector in Rwanda, in Kibirisi. We will do this through empowering local youth to form a cooperative and to be able to sell natural honey to the local market. But in addition to this, we will also create a community-based fund for women and girls to have access on finance and how to invest in small businesses such as agriculture, sewing and other activity. What we need is for the pilot for 12 months is a grant of 5,000 pounds to train in conservation and also to initiate the cooperative for 50 youth, but also to insert 300 beehives in the forest and use the software to manage the cooperative benefits and also the fund. We will sell honey where one kilogram will be sold 26 pounds and one beehive can produce up to 10 kilograms of honey. We have a team of four youths from different backgrounds. We wrote an urban and we have a educational background, environmental engineering, environmental policy, leadership and business administration and photography. Thank you so much. Thank you. As you can hear, you did it exactly in one minute. Very well done. And we now also announced the audience vote because we have a second winner. The audience vote went for Juliet Grace from Uganda. Juliet, congratulations. Your project inspired us and we would also like to ask you to pitch your idea in one minute. Well, I'm still in shock. Thank you very much. My name is Juliet Grace. I'm from Uganda. So the project that I teach, the project that we're working on is basically how we are involving young people to communicate about climate action and it's the climate action media van. What we are doing is promoting climate action and awareness through experimental journalism, media conservation, tourism and community service with support of technology. So the project basically what it would be is just imagine young people in a bus moving around and moderating conversations on climate action. These conversations are led by young people for the young people and they are taking action in all of these. Okay. Was that it? That's half a minute. That's even more impressive, Juliet. Well done. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Very quickly, I would like to thank the dragons, the four dragons for the excellent responses and questions. And of course, thanks to all the pictures for their very inspiring ideas. I would like to encourage the audience in this room to reach out. Watch the video of the dragons then and if there's a project that you find interesting in any way, because you want to give advice or you know, potential resources in terms of knowledge that was the one unit sign. Do connect to the pictures themselves their email addresses are on the on the presentation that's also online. So thank you very much everyone and once more congratulations to Juliet and Inesa. Thanks. Thank you very much, Jan Willem for that and particularly congratulations to Inesa and Juliet. And in Inesa you have another prize you will be able to close out the conference in a few minutes but before I give you the floor. I'm going to have one more speaker share his thoughts and that's Andrew Norton who is the director of IID who is is the head of the team that pulled off the CBA 14 conference so well. So Andy congratulations to all your colleagues and well done. Would you like to share some final thoughts before we close. Thanks Salim and really huge thanks to everyone. Yeah, it's been amazing to see how vibrant this year's event has been and really exciting actually to see the possibilities that a virtual event has opened up 70 countries and all the fantastic conclusions that Susan summarized so ably for us. I'd just like to say very few words to emphasize how influential CBA is now becoming on a global scale. The Talanoa dialogue on effective adaptation at CBA 13 had a big impact on a range of really important developments since things like the least developed countries 2050 vision launched at the Climate Action Summit the Secretary General Summit in New York in September of 2019 and building on that the LDC initiative for effective adaptation and resilience there was a compact which was signed between the LDCs and eight bilateral donors at COP 25 in Madrid, which showed how we're starting to see key ideas such as money where it matters respect for whole of society leadership and the importance of long term patient engagement. These things which are critical for effective and successful action. We're starting to see these getting embedded into mainstream thinking on climate finance, CBAs played a massive role in all of that, and also had an influence on the development of the Global Commission on adaptation local action track, particularly the principles for locally led action, which I hope everyone would have a look at if they haven't already. I'm going forward Claire's already mentioned how we want to take the lessons of this CBA forward to a range of events in 2021, including the biodiversity summit. The Global Summit on adaptation being organized by the Netherlands in January and of course COP 26. And with reference to that it was brilliant to have Paul Arkwright here showing COP team engagement with the event and the enthusiasm of the COP presidency team to take the lessons of this CBA forward into COP 26. So now before handing over to a nice of closing. It's important to have some words of thanks for all those who've helped to make CBA 14 such a fantastic success. And first thanks go to our overall primary host, the government of Bhutan. And again, the LDC chair from Bhutan provided fantastic thoughts, I think, about the opening session and the closing session of CBA. Also huge thanks to our core funders Irish aid and the Climate Justice and Resilience Foundation. Obviously without their support this wouldn't have been possible so massive thanks to them. I'd also like to pay a bit of a tribute to the excellent partnership with other organizations that have engaged in making it a success and critically have sponsored people to attend who might not have been able to participate otherwise. And that's care international practical action, the global resilience partnership and the global commission on adaptation. Huge thanks to them. But most importantly, I'd like to give special thanks to the seven contributing partners who have made this such a special event by bringing grassroots experience to the forefront in CBA 14. And that's slum shack dwellers international SDI, the Hauru Commission, green Africa youth, act aid, Brack international, the Boise facility and IUCN International Union for the conservation of nature. So huge thanks to them for incredible leadership and giving us such a rich range of grassroots experience to draw on. But finally I can't let this go Salim without huge thanks to our special partners in the International Center for Climate Change and Development based in Dakar, led by yourself. And of course Salim it was you who many years ago kicked off this whole series of CBA with the first CBA conference when you were with us at IAED. And it's important also to say this evolving global partnership of LDC universities, taking forward climate change action. The luck is also hugely important and brings great richness to every event like this. So just finally a massive thanks to my IAED colleagues if you will permit me who've worked so hard to make this happen, to Claire for her leadership, but perhaps particularly well to many but to Sam Green and to Reza Saraka who've been the backbone of this enormous effort bringing this forward. But to many others too in our climate and comms group and finally my thanks to everyone really to all the participants. It's been a really special event and huge thanks to everyone huge applause for everyone. Thank you very much to me. Thank you very much Andy. We will be closing soon but there are a couple of items left before we finish and at the very end, we are going to be sharing the video that won the prize so if those of you who are interested in the video, please stay on for that and Inez will be the closing. But before I hand over to Inez for closing remarks, I just want to share a little bit of my own sort of next steps as it were all of these have been mentioned already, but I'll just take us over the next few weeks months leading up to COP26 at the end of next year. So in early Jan in the in this third part of January, from the 21st to the 24th, we will be hosting in Bangladesh in my center, the seventh annual govashana conference, the theme of which is going to be on locally led adaptation. And so we welcome and invite everybody it'll be an online conference like the CBF 14 so everybody who was in CBF 14 is most welcome to join the slide on the screen has the website you can visit it govashana by the way is a Bangla word for research. That's what we call it's a platform of more than 50 universities and research institutions in Bangladesh working on climate change. And we have an annual conference which from next year we are going to make it into a global conflict. And then immediately after the govashana conference on the 25th of January, there's going to be a global adaptation summit which has already been mentioned several times, officially hosted by the government of the Netherlands. It was originally supposed to be a one day event in the Netherlands, but in October this year, but instead of because of COVID-19 instead of being in October it's been moved to the 25th of January, and is no longer just one event in the Netherlands there will be a high level event in the Netherlands there will also be a series of what are called anchor events across the globe over 24 hours on the 25th of January, one of which will be here in Dhaka in Bangladesh hosted by the government of Bangladesh, the Prime Minister Bangladesh herself, and that the focus of that will be locally led adaptation, which is where the community based adaptation community of practice come in so we hope you will all be able to participate in that it will also be a virtual event as well. And then later in the year, we've already had a discussion about CBF 15, which will be hosted by Brack in Bangladesh. I advise Brack on their climate change work and I can tell you that they're very keen to have people come and visit them and spend some time with them. So I think we and we also recognize the the option opportunities that being an online event allows bringing in people from all over the world who can't fly into Bangladesh. So we might think of it making it into a hybrid event. Those of you who can come can come those of you who can't come can join us online so we give some thought to that. And then as we heard, COP26 at the end of the year, we hope to be able to give some significant inputs into the decision making that takes place in COP26, particularly on the adaptation track, and also on the nature based solutions track. So I'm going to end there by thanking everybody who participated in this session and hand over to Inezah for some concluding remarks and then after that, please stick around to see the video that won the competition for videos. Inezah please. Thank you. I'm still in the shock. So I say, my name is Inezah, I am a global citizen and the neck of feminists. I believe in sustainability, the sustainability of the ecosystem and the power of anyone to lead with a special focus on women because they have been the most vulnerable group for ages. CBF 14 had the team from local solution to global action. Let's remember that we were here with the purpose to know how we can increase adaptation to climate change for our vulnerable exposed community. This event was was was an event that bring hope, that brought hope to the achievement of the Paris Agreement, the sustainable development goal, and other related, I reiterated the conversion decision as we understand their interlinkage. This is my first time to participate in the CBA. And with the momentum of youth inclusion that I experienced, I believe that the SBA 15 will have more youth participation from all backgrounds, from the Global North, Global South, from the Abern and rural background, who will share concrete results of what is where is their contribution to the climate adaptation in their own unique perspective. For, from climate finance, adaptation, technology, responsive policy, natural based answer, we need youth voice reflected in all manner, in order to promote on grand activity. I humbly thank all of us who are present online, who managed to be connected through a computer screen, a telephone or a tablet, regardless of our time zone. It was really amazing to, to keep in mind that we can still be connected, even if it's not on physically connected, but we can be connected with the purpose that we have, because we have a common goal, which is to have a sustainable environment for our next generation. Let's keep, let's keep the momentum, let's keep the spirit, and I believe that together we can achieve even more. Thank you so much. Thanks so much, Inezza. And just to close us out, I'm going to announce two winners, and each of the winners wins a free ticket to next year's CBA. So the prize for the most active commenter on all of the community boards is Maple Matteo. Congratulations. You commented on almost every comment board. We didn't tell anybody about that prize, so I'm hoping that one is a nice surprise, and we will be in touch with you about how to take that forward. The winner of the film competition was the Women's Climate Centre International. I'll just start my video. The film, let me just find the details. It was a documentary on the Women's Climate Centre International in Uganda. A documentary that explains how Women's Climate Centre International Women-led Climate Centre's concepts chose early progress at the site at the Flagship Centre in Tororo. It was made by Joshua Muturi. The cameraman was Fred Mugeni, and Tishila did the music, and it was submitted by Tracy Mann. So thank you very much for that. Congratulations. It's a really great uplifting film, and assuming that my screen share works this time, I am going to share it to players out. So thank you very much to everyone who's been involved. Women's Climate Centre was founded by a group of women from Kenya, Uganda, South Africa and United States who came together to set up a network of centres led by women that address climate change impacts. The idea grew out of a survey carried out among women in local communities in Kenya who expressed the need for a network of centres led by women. Women's Climate Centre is a consortium of women-led grassroots organisations that come together to develop low-cost indigenous solutions to climate change. So we come up with solutions in thematic areas. We are looking at four themes which really integrate with feed into each other. For example, we have the smart technologies department, and then we have leadership and advocacy. Then we have bio-intensive and food production, food security section, and we have environmental conservation. Tororo District, found in the eastern part of Uganda, bordering Kenya, was selected as a first site for the centre because of adverse effects of climate change in the area, supported by the level of community sensitisation and engagement which has been developed over many years by RWCCI partner Constance Okolet, chairperson of the Osukuru United Women Network. We use indigenous trees and indigenous plants to restore the environment, so promoting tree planting at household labour, then demonstrating it at the centre. If you want to see the different varieties of indigenous trees that you can plant at home that are resilient enough to climate change, at our climate centre you will find that. We want to change the community to be very green and we shouldn't have floods, we shouldn't have the full sunshine because when it comes to rain, it rains and you find houses broken down, our trees broken down, so if we have so many trees we shall have to bring down the issue of climate change. Also promoting bio-intensive farming, commonly referred to as kitchen gardens, small gardens that are a high intense volume of variety of crops that can thrive throughout the year. Promotion of low-cost appropriate technologies climate centres, like if you go around the households of the people we work with you will see they have locally made energy serving stoves. Like Lorena stoves, like these simple stoves which preserve because you will not clear a rule out that no one is cutting a tree or using firewood, but at least instead of using five of them to cook beans you can use two or one. Then we are also doing toilets but specifically like environmental friendly toilets like Ecosan and as a centre we have a bio-intensive section and then we can use this manual back in the gardens to boost the agricultural section. We also promote livelihood and promote serving, small-scale enterprises in ranges of like farming, small-scale businesses but also selling tree siblings. Women's climate centre is unique and based on a flat organisational structure which is collaborative as part of the continued community consultation and collaboration. The team that we are joined with they now help us to bring in the knowledge that we didn't have and right now the community is very happy and appreciative and they look forward for more trainings, more knowledge, more empowerment. In as far as we are called women climate centres international we still work with the men, it's called male involvement in climate change. Then we also work with the youth, so we promote youth livelihood also. We were taught some small savings, we started the project of poultry keeping. The poultry has benefited me in a way that I can be able to raise money for my children's requirements. We plant trees, we put it in a separate bed, after it has germinated we sell. We have a lot of money to give to our children. We have a lot of money to give to our children. We have a lot of money to give to our children. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic affecting various activities globally women's climate centres has built the foundation of the office block at the centre that has been raised at the site of the first women-led one-stop climate solutions centre. The centre's ecosystem toilets has been completed. Clearing of the land is ongoing and several indigenous local trees have been planted. The plan of the centre is a big one because it is going to be a training school. People coming from all over the world to come and do training here. They are going to have the hotels on one side of the centre. Most of the trees you are seeing around are generated by most members of the network. They give in the form of a price, they have guidance, they sell some of these things to the community. So I see Cairo as a parish house, a sub-county benefiting to improve the climate by planting trees. WCCI Future Plans focuses on centres being self-sufficient and being able to generate revenue. This is intended on reducing or eliminating international donor dependency. The technology is given to the community and they will understand and they will do it by themselves. Now the generation that will come it will now be easier, easier, easier and easier. What we want is to take away climate talk from the big conferences, big titles, PhDs and come to where the problem is actually and create a community of practice.


After two years of hard work and dedication, Pikeville police officers received various awards for their efforts within the community. Wednesday Mountain Top spoke with public information officer Tony Kahn about those officers' achievements. The awards, the two top awards would be for the co-officers of the year. Usually they just pick one, but it went over a two-year period, so this year they had co-winners, which was Officer Hobson and Officer Bowens. The awards now from that is the Patrol Activities Awards. Basically, it's the most arrest, most citations, indictments, things like that. And we had two winners there, which was Officer Austin Cranstman and Officer Daniel Fields. And with Pikeville PD, the way we do the awards, it is their earned. I know myself and some of the officers should have won them in the past. And it's not an easy task because you're competing, basically, with the best officers that you can find.  And when you win these awards, basically you earn these awards, you're doing your job, but you're going above and beyond. At Pikeville Medical Center, we believe that together we can make a difference in the fight against cancer. We are proud to have patients who have experienced successful outcomes over many years. As always, we believe in the power of faith. Pikeville Medical Center, where cancer can be defeated. In addition to the department's awards, Pikeville officers were recognized for their achievements statewide. Officer of the year co-recipient, Zach Bowens, says it feels awesome. I would have to say, though, I wouldn't be able to receive it without some of the supervisors and guidance and some of the field training officers I have, such as Tony, Austin, King, Josh Tackett and some of the supervisors I have been working a lot of nights here, so I've been on Sunday and all of them, but they've been real helpful. Over the past two years, I'll be going in my second year off out of the academy coming up and really just leadership and guidance has helped me more than anything I'd say. I'm a very stubborn-headed person, but they've been able to help me and keep me in line and show me the right way and how to do stuff proper. Co-recipient of the Patrol Activities Award, Austin Cranesman, shares his thanks. He quotes, I am incredibly thankful to be recognized by the city for the commitment I have in trying to make our home a safer place. Policing is a team effort. I'm fortunate enough to be a member of the best team in Kentucky. Nothing I have accomplished has been without the help of those around me. For Mountaintop News, I'm Joel Horjol.