my name is cindy comerford and i'm going to talk about the climate program. so the climate program works to collaboratively with diverse stakeholders to aggressively and equitably reduce carbon emissions and other harmful pollutants while advancing environmental justice and healthy ecosystems. if we go to the next slide, so many of our programs here work to reduce carbon emissions, not just the climate program. so i just want to tell you a little bit about the diverse teams that are part of the climate program and so if we look at this slide, there's actually six different distinct teams that are part of this program. so the first three building decarbonize asian healthy ecosystems and circular economy are really tasked with implementing chapters within the within the climate action plan. so building decarbonization obviously focuses on removing fossil fuels from our buildings, healthy ecosystems, looks at expanding biodiversity within the city and also manages the urban forest council. all circular economy is something that we've kind of renamed for this yea

, uh, and just on behalf of san francisco environment, uh, our director, tyrone zhu, my boss, cindy comerford, just want to thank you again for our partnership over all these years. uh, and it's been such a pleasure to work with, with all the staff, peter and bob and anne-marie and all of you. um, and maybe just to also a reminder of my background. and i actually worked at the presidio for the national park service, going back to the mid 90s at poster park into the mid 2000. s uh, founded a nonprofit called nature in the city and then started working for the city government, spent in 2012. so that's kind of who i am really quickly at. and i'm really glad to be able to continue to have this on the ground role of restoration ecologist out in yerba buena island and treasure island. so we want to start off by just kind of introducing you to the to the current team. the current natural areas management team, myself and peter. and then of course, our colleagues juan and sergio and the rest of the crew at rubicon, who have been doing great work over the last, um, years working with us. so uh, and ju