 Thank you very much Ambassador Ramayad. Thank you and thank you all for inviting me to speak today. Every nation must play its part in solving the dual crisis of global poverty and climate change. Africa must be committed to solving both of these emergencies because both poverty and a warming planet affect us more than any other region. And we're absolutely clear that Africa must be proactive, we must be assertive of our needs and we must do a better job of making our views heard. This is what we expect in Egypt and before I explain Nigeria's climate commitments and what we expect from our international partners, if I may start with three core facts. The first is that energy is a stark and inexcusable example of global inequality. And the pandemic has laid bare the realities of global inequality. That certain regions are hit the hardest and the global response is usually uneven and unjust. Today less than 10% of Africans are fully vaccinated. Inequality is just as unforgivable when it comes to energy. So 48 Sub-Saharan countries, our entire region, minus South Africa, are home to more than one billion people. Yet we all use less electricity than Spain. And we should not accept a world where any person uses less electricity than an American refrigerator. My second point is around that curious term of a just transition. Climate policy accepts that a just transition is necessary to ensure that no communities get left behind. But the concept of justice narrowly applies to just easing the pain of coal communities in the U.S., in Germany, in India, or perhaps South Africa, as a transition away from coal. But what is a just transition from countries with no coal and with deep energy poverty? So a just transition would mean something very different for every other African country, including my own country in Nigeria. For us, a just transition means a lot more energy, not less. And climate justice must include ending global energy poverty. Every person on the planet deserves to have modern energy. Every person deserves a job. All modern economies require abundant, affordable and reliable energy. And with the impact of climate change bearing down on us, every nation must have enough energy to build resilient infrastructure, to deliver essential public services, and provide the cooling and air conditioning to withstand a warming climate. And I'll just repeat this. Climate justice must include ending energy poverty. My third point, every country must find its own path to a low carbon future. The EU decision to label both gas and nuclear as green energy is a clear recognition that Europe knows that countries need a wide range of options. The United States too has a long term plan that includes an array of different technologies that meet the needs of diverse communities across the country. So Africa too will find its own path. Africa will use an array of technologies that meet the needs of diverse countries across the continent. So what about Nigeria? Again, let's start with a few facts. By 2050, Nigeria will be the third-largest country in the world, surpassing the United States in population. We'll also be majority urban. In other words, Nigeria will top 30 Lagos, which is our commercial capital, will top 30 million people. That is 50% bigger than metropolitan New York today. So Nigeria must meet the energy and employment needs for both rural communities and very large populations concentrated in mega cities. So Nigeria will require huge investments in new infrastructure. We're going to build more roads, more ports, industrial parks, and especially power systems. For every Nigerian to consume the modern energy minimum of 1,000 kilowatt hours per year by 2050, will require a 15-fold increase in a national power generation today to ensure that every household has access to cleaner cooking. It will require us to access LPG, that's liquefied, that difficult to home gas, biogas and electric cooking for the tens of millions of families still cooking with wood and charcoal. So what is Nigeria's energy transition plan? Our President, President Buhari pledged at COP26 that Nigeria will reach next zero emissions by 2060 and this is also reflected in our energy transition plan. At the same time, our immediate priority is to create 20 million jobs and rebuild our industries. So we must add more than 200 gigawatts of new power capacity, principally utility-scale solar by 2060. So we'll need to upgrade our power infrastructure, especially for transmission and distribution using a strategic mix of grid and mini grid systems. We must also reduce our reliance on inefficient and dirty diesel generators and end gas flaring by capturing that resource for productive users. To be successful, we need partners. The majority of investment in our energy transition will come from our own national resources, but we estimate that we need an additional 410 billion US dollars above business as usual investment to meet our goals. So the 8.5 billion package pledged to South Africa to accelerate this transition of coal provides an important signal of global support for Africa's energy transition, but it can't just be about South Africa. Nigeria with five times more people and far deeper energy poverty will lead a transition package of at least 10 billion US dollars per year for the next two decades to fund new generation, transmission, infrastructure, smart grids, data management systems, and storage capacity to integrate new distributed renewable energy systems. Of course, we're not asking for charity, but we're asking for a partnership to mobilize private capital to harness clean technology supply chains and to transform our economy while protecting lives and livelihoods. Like other regions, Africa will need flexibility too. And this is so important in the United States and Europe. It's accepted that natural gas is a transition fuel and necessary to energy security. In rich nations, gas is still used for cooking, heating, and industry, and for balancing a power system, especially as more variable wind and solar are added to the grid. Yet it has somehow become fashionable to deny this same flexibility to Africa, to assume that we can leapfrog fossil fuels without working with us to understand our challenges and our needs is clearly unjust and will delay our development and our transition to a cleaner future. So I think just to be clear, Nigeria as I'm sure other African countries will have a low carbon energy future. We are committed to the Paris Accord and we will reach net zero by 2060. We aim to build a 21st century economy for our people using the latest technologies to create competitive jobs and lift our people into the middle classes. Our energy transition plan projects 70% of our electricity will come from solar. But to get there, we need natural gas over the next two decades to provide cleaner cooking, to power industry, to generate electricity, and to balance large influxes of solar power. Fortunately, we have our own gas resources which we need to use not only for export earnings, but for our own development. This is why I, along with other African leaders are concerned about new financing rules making it difficult for developing countries to access finance for gas to power. Yes, we know that there are some exceptions, but we're already seeing the investment rules limit technology choices of African countries in ways that do not apply to wealthy nations. So applying a set of standards to Africa that will not be applied in the wealthier countries is the opposite of climate justice. If the global energy transition is going to become reality, if we're truly in this climate crisis together, if we're working together in this crisis, then the priorities of African nations cannot be sidelined. Climate justice must include far greater support for countries with the greatest needs and who contribute the least, as Ambassador Yard pointed out, to global emissions. It must include investments, not only to mitigate carbon emissions, but also to ensure that developing countries can adapt to the impact of climate change caused by the rich, polluting nations. Climate justice must include ending energy poverty. Anything else will be the opposite of justice and a strategic failure for the world. I'm confident that we can get there. At COP26, Egypt will be a crucial moment for African leaders to explain their common position and for Western leaders to show that they are hearing us and living up to their commitments and responsibilities. I think Egypt can be a turning point for fighting climate change and for ending global poverty. The win-win is there for the world to grasp. We can succeed, but only if the needs of developing countries are heard and taken seriously. Thank you very much. Thank you.