Good morning, everyone.
I want to welcome our witnesses today, starting with World Future Council's Catherine Pearce. She is here from London to join us in the room today.
We have three others who are in video conference with us and I would like to introduce them now.
We have Peter Davies, who was the Wales commissioner for sustainable futures and is currently the chair of the Wales Council for Voluntary Action. He's on video conference from London with us. With him, we have Malini Mehra. Welcome.
We also have on video conference from Victoria, Thomas Gunton from the school of resource and environmental management at Simon Fraser University. It's nice to see you, and thank you for being with us today.
From Berlin we have the German Council for Sustainable Development. Günther Bachmann is the general secretary. Thank you very much for joining us today.
Just to give a little bit of procedure, we have witness statements and then we are going to go into questioning. I will let you know when you have one minute left in your speech, so that you don't go over your 10 minutes.
When it comes to questioning I will let everyone know when we're at one minute, so that people know that it needs to end. I will allow a very short going over, but I will let you know when the time is up. Then please finish up your sentence and then we will stop.
We're going to start off the statements with Catherine Pearce, future justice director. She's here with us today.
Thank you.