Good afternoon. Im senior fellow with National Security program. Its my great honor to welcome Peter Frazier who is the head of gas, coal for the International Energy agency. He is here to launch the coal 2017 coal has been the worlds dominant fuel for a century. Certainly the robust deployment of renewables but then combined with the cheap gas and has been putting quite a bit of pressure on the generation. So the coal 2017 is one of the ieas signature publications. Its previously known as a midterm coal Market Report. It provides comprehensive analysis heater is here to walk us through some of the analysis and help us better understand where the markets are headed to in the near to midfuture, i guess through 2022. Previously between 1998 and 2004 he was a senior electricity policy adviser. This is his second tour. In between peter worked at the Ontario Energy board. From 1989 to 98 he was an Energy Policy adviser at the ontario ministry. It is with my great pleasure. He will speak for
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