 Honourable visitors of the water environment, some visitors. Irish ambassador Ronald Krohn, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, good morning. At the chair of the LEC group, the LIS developed countries group, it's an honour to speak on behalf of the 48 LIS developed countries, including Uganda and my own country, Ethiopia. It's also a real pleasure to be in Kampala to share our knowledge and experience on the issue of community-based adaptation, which is of paramount importance to all of our countries. In the International Climate Negotiations, our group represents the interests of the world's first. We call for deteriorating actions on the ground to secure tangible outcomes to protect the lives and livelihoods of our people and safeguard our future prosperity. For the LCCs, this means not only ambitious initial reduction, but also adapting to the current and future impacts of climate change and variability and addressing the loss and damage caused by its unavoidable consequences. Many of our countries have large rural populations that rely on climate-sensitive industries such as agriculture and communities that rely on ecosystem service. The adaptation discourse therefore needs to include ecosystem-based adaptation considerations as an important element, including the sustainable management of our ecosystems, safeguarding of our ecosystems against drought, extreme weather events, rising sea levels and other hazards posed by climate change and variability and the enhancement of ecological structures and functions that are essential for our communities. Adapting to climate change can be extremely difficult in the context of eradicating poverty and developing sustainability, and this is compounded by lack of domestic capacity and lack of international support from both the public and the private sector. Yet, in the face of these daunting challenges, the LCCs and other vulnerable countries are taking ambitious mitigation and adaptation action while calling on world-tier nations to do the same. There are a couple of vital ingredients to achieve the adaptation outcomes we rely on. First, international climate finance needs to flow and be scaled up to support our countries' efforts on climate change. Although climate change is predominantly caused by developed world, its impact hits harder in the global south. So, while we continue to work hard to develop adaptation strategies such as national adaptation plans and work with local communities to build resilience and adaptive capacity, financial support is desperately needed along with the transfer of adaptive technologies and capacity-building support. Ensuring climate finance flows to local levels will also empower communities to use their knowledge to take effective decisions and actions to address local needs and priorities on climate change. Second, we need more cooperation and knowledge sharing at the world stage including through the South-South cooperation among developing countries and multi-level multi-sector engagement across different governments, research centers, energy and private sector organizations. This is where conferences like these are incredibly valuable. A great deal of excellent research and work has been done on how best to adapt to climate change but often the knowledge is not in the hands of those who must implement it. Global cooperation is vital to navigating the path to effective, robust adaptation action. The team of this year's conference, harnessing the natural resource and customs for adaptation, is an important one for these developed countries, many of which have vibrant ecosystems and undratrived natural resources. Learning to use these resources in a sustainable way to contribute to adaptation will help give local governments control over their fed and built long-term resilience. I look forward to learning more about this important topic which all of you over the coming days to catalyze the real adaptation actions require to protect our comments from the dangers of climate change and secure a better future for all. I thank you.