Welcome to the training program for Young Africans on operationalization of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and the Climate Change Negotiations. My name is David Lesoller and I'll be taking you through this one week. As a starting point, let me just announce some housekeeping. Please mute yourself during the presentations. Make sure that you go to the bottom, let the 10th corner of your screen and make sure that your mic is off. And please use the chat feature to communicate any issues, technical issues, whatever questions, probes that you may have. And please note that there will be discussions that will be recorded on Tuesday, this Tuesday, and also on Thursday. If you have any clarifications to be asked or whatever, please note that there will be an discussion session at the end of my presentation. The slides and the brief summary will be shared via email after the workshop. So welcome indeed to this first week. The overview of the course is such that it is an online course. The program area is climate change, the language will be English, the application deadline was on the 1st of August 2022. The cost duration is 2 weeks from today, the 8th of August to the 19th of August 2022. And we will have an exam week during the date, a week after the end of the course. The exact date will be communicated to you. We'll also have a cost evaluation. And that will take place during the week of the 29th to the 2nd of September. The exact date will also be communicated to you later. The approach to this 1st week of the training course. I'm going to take you through the science of global warming and climate change. So 1st of all, I want you to understand the science. What is it that makes us have this convention, this treaty. And then I'll also take you down to the through the treaty itself, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The treaty has a body, it has some institutional arrangement. And you have to negotiate within these bodies. And it's important for you to understand how and how what the climate change convention is all about before you can go into question. So I'll give you a snapshot, a summary of the process itself, the UNFCCC process. And then we'll focus then on the call of my program for you, which is unpacking the article 6 of the Paris Agreement. How and write up to how you operationalize the article 6 and also preparing draft statements for intervention. So in essence, therefore, during the first week, we will have two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon. I've tried to make sure that the discussions are held in the afternoons. And then the presentations are held in the mornings. So we're going to start today when climate change 101, I call it, which is a module on climate change. And then by tomorrow, we will finish all about the climate change convention and how to negotiate so that then Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, we dedicate that to article 6 of the convention of the Paris Agreement.