Thank you. And thank you to the translators. I see the smoke is coming from their roof over there.
I want to address Ms. Conway and Mr. Aston.
This is an area that concerns many parliamentarians: the lack of discussion on climate change and environment policy issues. In your presentation, and let me quote it, you call for “immediate and sustained investment in the generation and analysis of new knowledge on climate and atmospheric processes and their impacts, on earth systems science, on developing the science support”, etc., but you conclude that the costs of inaction are simply too high.
Now, in that context, if I understand your presentation about the Arctic, and about the ozone and the glaciers, and about water security and its impact and the ripple effects--those are all good things--are you familiar with the PEARL research site in the North Pole?