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I haven't Welcome to the prota sustainability in orthopedic surgery conference. I want to thank all of you for joining us today. Um, it's ah, been a bit of a journey, but probably reason why we're here today. Is that last year in April 2021 The RCs England knots there. Sustainability in surgery strategy which outlines how they want to, or the have a plant in bed, financial, environmental and social to stay in ability with ethical part. Sink into everything that we do. And this is being in keeping with the NHS England greener and they just goal, which is to become a net zero carbon organization by 2045. As as many of you who attuned in today may already know, climate change is the defining issue of this decade, with the recent cottony six Conference with the Glasgow climate and packed helping to align the goal of reducing 90% of the global emissions. The Net. Zero in the next few years, person, Like many of you, I've often being scrubbed for a case and thought about the amount of waste that we produce, particularly with you guys start operating and single use plastic for example, and thought that we could be doing this better. Onda As a result, one of the one the main goals as both president this year has been have bean to champion sustainability. As one of our organization goes to everything that we do, I would therefore like to welcome, uh, you to today's conference which was an idea born out of discussions with my partner organization, the Southwest London Elective Orthopedic Center on Mr Mr Ripping s Open your own force. You can't be here with us today. I would like to introduce you to our boat of sustainability lead for this year. Juliet Cotton, who's also our world rep. Who would be our host for today? Um achieved you. Thank you very much. All over. Um, as a liver says I am the boat of Wales rep. But I'm also the boat sustainability lead for this year. Um, stability, something that I'm very passionate about on when the idea of this conference first came up, there were two main emotions, the first of which Waas. This is a brilliant idea on a second, which waas Oh, gold. Um I don't know who's doing what about staying ability at the moment. I don't know where to start with this. I don't know how sustainability projects get off the ground. I just know it's all really important on hopefully throughout the course of this afternoon, we're gonna be able to show you through the help of some really, really fantastic, because that were incredibly lucky to have that sustainability is attainable for the neck chest on. There's already some great work on going, and hopefully we're going to inspire you to start your own sustainable projects with that in mind.