 Good morning. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, welcome and thank you all for attending this grand opening for Atom for Climate Pavilion here at COP 27. My name is Huang Wei, director for planning information and the knowledge management of the nuclear energy department of IAEA and also the designated focal point for UNFCCC. It's my great pleasure to co-moderate this opening session with my dear colleague Sophie Bartol Dallapombe, the director for public information and communication of IAEA. We are very delighted to have our digital fellow Mariano Grossi and other high-level representatives from government, international organizations, industry, and the government of non-government organizations join us today. During today's session, you will hear how the IAEA and its partners are enabling the safe and peaceful use of nuclear power and nuclear science and technologies in climate change, mitigation, and adaptation. It is our pleasure to first show you a video of our director general recent trip to one of Fiji's villages to see for himself the devastating impact of climate change on vulnerable communities. Climate change and the problems associated to it are a reality. We know it, we read about it. But seeing it firsthand changes everything, changes the perspective, help us understand the reality. Here in Fiji, we can see that the problems associated with climate change and the rising levels of the sea are determining and affecting very seriously the future of people. I've been here for more than 50 years and I've seen our beach friends just washing away and when we have high tides, salt water comes in. It was all land. You can see for yourself, it was all under water. It was all land before. There's about 50 acres of land already under water. This is the inclusion of places where they used to build houses, where they used to farm, where they had their gradients and where their children used to play. As in many other areas, nuclear technologies can be part of the solution. So the IAEA is prepared to be a partner, scientific advisor and practical partner of member states in facing this very serious challenge. This will be a long-term effort but give you two solutions understanding the dimension and the reality of the problem and especially the human dimension of the problem is indispensable. We are human, we are people. And what you make as a consequence, none real. And the ones we have right here at home. And I say the word home to reiterate the fact that this is where we live, this is where we have been and this is where we want to be in the future become. What that future will hold and what that future will be like is in your hands also as people. So from Fiji, we love you and we love you. We're watching this very touching film which highlights the urgency of climate change crisis. Without further ado, it's my great pleasure to invite our BG, Rafael Mariano Grossi, to the stage to give his opening remarks. Well, thank you very much. You can hear me in this noisy but very vibrant place here in Chamerchic. I'm very glad to have this opportunity to do this which is quite unique. The fact that for the first time at the COPS we have a place like this, we have a nuclear pavilion. It's in itself a reflection of how things are changing and how we hope at long last. We are looking at problems with a realistic perspective, a realistic perspective of getting to solve them. I will not repeat many things that have been said by the Secretary General and many others in this gathering but simply from our own side, from the side of the nuclear community, writ large, which is represented here, that nuclear is here, nuclear is already part of the solution and nuclear will continue to be in this path. The fact that we have this nuclear pavilion here in Chamerchic and the way this has been made possible, it is also a reflection of our approach because we are here together in a way that we hope is reflective of the way we are trying to work. We are here from the perspective of international organizations because I'm here accompanied by two great friends and colleagues, the Secretary General of WMO and the Deputy Director General of FAO, our neighbors here across the aisle, much more than that, partners in so many things we do together and also member states. And as we can see, Minister Ghana, the Assistant Secretary from the United States, the State Secretary from Argentina and also the nuclear community represented here in different ways from the World Association of Nuclear Operators from the Nuclear Energy Institute, Maria there, so many people here, which means that we, from the nuclear community, we are getting together. We know that in this effort we are going to be together or fail. And this is why this nuclear pavilion is not the pavilion of the IEA, it's the pavilion of the nuclear community offering its message and what we can do together. Not only when it comes to nuclear energy and we are going to be listening about that, I am sure, in the presentations that we are going to have, but also from the perspectives in the jargons of adaptation and how we go about using nuclear techniques and science to improve the situation all over the world. And this film that you were just looking at, we prepared last year when I was visiting Fiji and I was personally very moved to see how these problems impact people. And we see here in Africa, Mr. Minister, we are in Africa and we know how serious the impact of global warming is. And we are feeling it also in Latin America where we come from. So let me say that our message here is a serious message, but it's a message charged with optimism. We know that if we take the right decisions, if we avail ourselves of all the existing tools, including nuclear, it will be possible to start mitigating the problem. It will be possible to have a future for the next generations. So let me thank you all. Thank you for this presence. Let me celebrate with you that nuclear, which had always had a place at the table, now is showing it. So welcome and looking forward to be hearing and listening to your testimonies. Thank you very much. And thank you for being here with us today at the Nuclear Pavilion at COP37. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, DG, for your insightful vision and inspiring messages. With that, we move forward to our fourth topical segment. The first song about enabling the same and peaceful our science and technologies. Our first speaker in this segment is His Excellency Matthew Apoku Prempay, Minister of Energy from Ghana. Excellency. I am delighted to be here today to talk about the opening of the ETA of IEA, His Excellency's hearing gathered. Heads of the institutions and all protocol observed. I am delighted to address this gathering at the opening of the Atom for Climate, which seeks to promote nuclear technology to combat climate change at the 27th Conference of Parties. We have a nuclear programme about seven decades ago with the establishment of the Ghana Atomic Agency Commission. We strive to achieve our global DG7 and the Paris Agreement as we strive to achieve these. It is imperative that we focus on energy technologies and fuels that are climate-friendly and clean. Since the establishment of the Ghana Atomic Energy Agency, we have a set of plans of science and medicine and technology. But we have also come to the realisation that as we seek to meet our nationally determined contributions and as we seek to a net-zero future, nuclear energy should be part of our mix of energy solutions that we envisage to attain. At this call, we've learned the National Energy Transition Framework document that is excellent in the presence of the country launch a couple of days back. And one of the main base load energy use we think in the future for Ghana will be nuclear. We seek to go on the process of a peaceful, civilian use of nuclear technology available as of now. Because if we don't, we don't see how we will be able to transition and that we are going to suffer when we have suffered, we in Africa have suffered for too long. We are going to go on a transition which will be very painful and will leave a lot of the population in Africa by the wayside. So we believe for a net-zero future in Africa and other developed nations we should surely look at embedding civilian use of nuclear technology as part. Director General after the COP26 we established the National Energy Transition Committee hoping that by the time we get here our document and our framework will be ready. Lo and behold, it is ready and the President presented it to the partnerships around COP. We hope that both transportation, electricity production, science and technology, the use of nuclear will be promoted to ensure that we have a clean and safe, sustainable cheap based-look energy for socio-economic development and for improvement in science and medicine where we are. In this our vision in 2018 the SNLCJA-4 set up a commission to see how Ghana can bring nuclear energy into its mix. In 2016 we set up in 2012 we set up a Ghana nuclear power program organization to advocate the use of nuclear energy in Ghana. On this our journey we've partnered IAEA so that we reassure the rest of the world that Ghana is not identifying nuclear for only unautonomous use of our purely peaceful and civilian and commercial use. In 2016 the Ghana national regulatory agency for nuclear power was set up also with the support of IAEA and we have been working together with IAEA. In 2017 they were in Ghana to assess Ghana's progress. They identified gaps. In 2019 they came back and we have put measures to make sure that gaps are fulfilled and so in 2022 His Excellency has declared Ghana as going into the phase two program of the IAEA as nuclear power generation as our mix. This is the journey we are. We established there, we advertised the request for information from countries we got 12 partner countries submitting we have still not decided yet on who we are going with because we understand that though we started with large nuclear reactor now the prospect of small modular reactor which would easily be very good for commercial production Ghana would also embrace that technology. That is where Ghana we are. We hope that by 2017 as our framework says 50% of electricity will be generated by nuclear. That is the ambition of Ghana and that is where Ghana want to go. We thank you. We hope that with the support of IAEA we will continue on the pathway of sustainable, cheap, energy for Ghana and for weather. Thank you. Thank you very much for this very excellent overview about Ghana's prospective nuclear program in your transition. Our speaker is Dr. Catherine Huff Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the Department of Energy of the United States who will deliver a message Secretary of Energy at Ground Home and President of the IAEA at the National Fifth Ministry of Conference of Nuclear Power which held in Washington DC last month. Dr. Huff, please. Thank you so much. It is an honor to be here with you and to extend the warm regards of U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm. Thank you to the sponsors of this IAEA pavilion. It is indeed historic to have this pavilion here and to our Egyptian hosts for this wonderful start of COP 27 in the United States as in many advanced economies when our people flip a switch they expect the lights to turn on. That expectation is being put at risk in many ways. Increased occurrences and frequency of extreme weather events in our nation like others are being caused by climate change and put at risk of fires and floods and other extreme weather effects our ability to have access to clean energy. And this I think helps us to acknowledge the situation that is present in so many nations around the world already regardless of climate change. The worsening effects of climate change simply bring this to the fore an acknowledgement that the United States must be helpful in the context of all nations trying to achieve access to clean energy and we recognize that also sadly over the course of the past year energy security itself has been put at risk by the weaponization of energy and we're Secretary Granholm here she would like to acknowledge the incredible leadership of the IAEA and Director General Grossi himself in the context of working toward more energy security for the world particularly in the context of Ukraine. We share this one fragile planet but there is hope for a solution to climate change and it involves renewables it involves nuclear power and nuclear power in particular within my office and the Department of Energy recognizes that in order to see the growth in capacity that we will need to meet our global nationally defined contributions and the President Biden's aggressive goals we must build quickly we need to build nuclear projects and deliver them at a scale meeting or exceeding some of the most productive decades in our nation's history in the United States between 1970 and 1990 we built 95 gigawatts electric of nuclear power and if we intend to double that by 2050 we must get to work today so we are working towards building and facilitating the development and deployment of these technologies both domestically and abroad that means we must provide abroad development assistance technical expertise and training and help build national capabilities in nations where they would like to be leaders in their regions for this technology but it is on us to create viable well structured projects for reactors and other advanced technologies which should offer great promise to lift up these parts of the world. Since this is the Africa COP I'm really excited today to share two new initiatives that we hope will help lift up the quality of life and economies in Africa it's such an honor to follow the Ministry from Ghana because one of those items was worked on at the IAEA Nuclear Power Ministerial last month and what it is is we're working with the Ghanaian Atomic Energy on a Clean Energy Training Center that could be deployed in Ghana intended for regional use for providing workforce development education and training including virtual as well as in-person technical exchanges in sub-Saharan Africa. We hope that this center will be leveraged as a hub for collaboration and cooperation with the United States Government, industry, national laboratories and academic institutions in civil nuclear cooperation as well as renewables integration we're also undertaking a groundbreaking Clean Energy Ministerial Nuclear Innovation Clean Energy Future Initiative. We call this the Nice Future Initiative study led by two DOE national laboratories jointly with Kenya's Nuclear Power Energy Agency so the study provides a method for rising economies to analyze options that will help quantify the potential for nuclear power in their nation as well as integration with renewables in their nuclear renewable systems so Nice Future supports Kenya's ability to better understand how the deployment of nuclear power could work in their nation and including non-electric uses for heat sin fuels, hydrogen and desalination Collaboration is essential. Multilateral fora like the IAEA and this conference of the parties are pivotal to our engagements in the United States with the other nations that we would like to partner with and so it's an honor and a pleasure to be here and I'm grateful to you IAEA and all the hosts of this pavilion I'm looking forward to the conversation. Thank you. Thank you very much Dr. Ha for your speech which has a very very encouraging message about what is happening in the U.S. which has the largest also this two initiative launched on the Africa continent. Thank you very much. Now we move to our next speakers from the honorable presence of the Celia Nicolini, the State Secretary of Climate Change and the Central Development and Innovation from Argentina. Secretary please. Thank you. Thank you very much. Can you listen to me on there? A little bit also? Okay. Try to speak up. Thank you very much for inviting us here today. Congratulations for the space. You said it was the first time at COP. Well, that says a lot, right, about having this discussion about nuclear and how come nuclear can really help to tackle climate change. And I remember we've been working very hard from Argentina and actually we are very proud because at this COP we are presenting our National Adaptational Mitigation Plan for 2030 and actually we also submitted our long-term strategy for carbon neutrality for 2050 and I remember the discussion with my team and with all the sectors of the government because in order to build this plan we have a national climate change cabinet that includes all the ministries, all the different regions, academics, unions, private sector, even civil society. So it's a lot of work and out of discussion. And whenever we were proposing and I was proposing one of our main strategic lines is energy transition. I imagine all the countries are facing with this challenge to tackle climate change. And we were proposing to include nuclear and that was very, very important even for Argentina and there was still a debate about including or not nuclear and how civil society will see it or even the world. And then I remember and you may call Greta Thumber saying okay let's also bet on nuclear. Nuclear will be as Rafael said very well part of the solution for climate change. And then everything changed a little bit and we try having this discussion. And what I have to say in all these also discussions and debates and negotiations that many times countries from the global south we are trying to lead this discussion but sometimes there's not a room to have this conversation. Luckily for us for Argentina we have great leadership like Rafael which we are very proud not only because he's Argentinian but we share background, we study at the same university and he's leading this conversation and the way to talk about nuclear with climate change in a great way that allow us to have and include nuclear energy in our plan which for us it's very important. For Argentina for instance we've been developing this technology for more than 70 years and as you all know this require not only political will and commitment but also investing a lot of money and time in developing a very very prepared academic and technology and scientific platform with people studying and dedicating their time in this in order to develop this technology. And probably I can say that nowadays we not only have three power reactors and five research reactors which are up and running in Argentina but also we are developing one of the most developed SMR, the small modular reactor that is the Cadem and actually a couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure to be there with general visitating it which is among I believe one of the 80 SMRs being developed in the world but the one in Argentina is I think the most advanced we are up to 70% of its development construction and it's 100% national development from Argentina which is also very important and it will be not only very very important for our country for Argentina but also for the region and for the rest of the world. That's why this is something that is really really important and I think it has to be also at the core of this discussion and conversation at the COP and at the following COP because it will be part of the solution of the carbonization of the global economy. And similarly when we think about climate change whenever we discuss development of nuclear energy there are three basic things that we have to share and we have to work a lot. One is investment as you know it requires a lot of investment not only in the projects themselves but also in creating the environment building the local capacities and the technology to enabling the development of this technology. And that's something that we are discussing here at COP and that's something that is very important to understand that countries like Argentina from the global south are demanding in order to be able to face our transitions in a just way. The second thing is that we need a lot of cooperation much more cooperation you just mentioned multilateralism which is very important. Much more cooperation we need in order to be able to build the past and the future towards our different scenarios for 2030 and 2050. And the third thing I think is that we need trust which is basic right for all the work you are doing in the nuclear experience and also in tackling climate change and in working in all these policies that we have to work all together. So whenever we need to build this trust and this confidence mainly to be able to find different solutions for the problem we are facing and even more importantly for without leaving no one behind. Thank you very much. Thank you Secretary for sharing with us the vision and experience of Argentina. And this closed the first segment of this event. Now we will continue with our next segment cooperating for equal access to the benefits for which he high level representative of key international organization are with us. So we begin with the floor of Professor Tala, Secretary General from the World Meteorological Organization. We are honored to give you the floor sir. Dear Rafael, dear minister, dear friends of nuclear energy it's a pleasure for me to address you all. We are here to talk about climate mitigation outside the world expects from us major steps forward in our energy consumption, the ways we produce energy and so forth. WMO has recently published several reports showing that we are not yet moving in the right direction. Although progress has been made but we just broke concentrations of carbon dioxide methane and nitrous oxide concentrations records this year and we have started seeing growing amount of impacts of climate change, heat waves flooding doubt taking place in many parts of the world and we have seen also doubling of sea level rise in the past 20 years and also the melting of glacier game we have already lost and for example in the Alps 85% of the glacier this summer because of the heat wave, highest amount ever. Energy sector is the biggest emitter and there we have to find solutions and luckily we have already studied seeing those solutions if you read the global carbon project report it's demonstrating that 85% of the energy used for production, industry and transport it's fossil fuel based steel and only 15% is based on nuclear hydro and renewable energy so we have to revert those numbers during the coming decades to be successful in climate mitigation. In nuclear energy sector I think that you are facing similar communication challenges as we were facing in climate science in the past climate science used to be a top secret thing in our meteorological community and thereafter we started publishing IPCC reports and there were attacks against science and it was a matter of belief and so forth but nowadays I think that these facts are well understood and we can already see the impacts of climate change but the nuclear community I think that you are having the similar communication challenge there are lots of facts which is also based on couple of accidents and also the fact that we have also nuclear weapons and in the minds of normal people you are mixing those things and we are happy to help you with that and I think that nuclear energy is needed as part of the solution and we have already seen some political changes that some people who in the past didn't believe in nuclear energy realizing that climate change is bigger threat and that's why we have to have also nuclear energy as part of the solution. At national level we have national meteorological and hydrological services and they are also safety authorities in their countries and they are for example having dispersion models in case that there would be an accident and they are also having rehearsals for such cases and many of them also are running radioactivity measurements just to ensure that the safety safety issues are well taken into account. We just published a few weeks ago report on climate services for energy sector where we demonstrated that the impacts of climate change they also felt in energy sector we have had shortages of cooling power because of high temperatures higher temperatures of cooling waters and also growing demand of energy so that's something that has to be taken into account in the planning of activities and we have of course challenging places like coastal areas where we can be exposed to tropical storms or tsunamis as we saw in Fukushima for example. But there's a high expectation for this kind of affordable small scale reactors where these permission bad ways are not so long as with the current big power plants and I personally believe that nuclear energy needs to be part of the solution and I hope that we will have new type of technology available to be part of the climate mitigation solution. Thank you. Thank you Professor Telas for your insights or views on the seriousness of the threats of the climate but also how nuclear can be part of the solution that's what we hear the most here and those news SMRs can help also to go in places where nuclear was not there yet. So now we are giving the floor to Deputy Director General of FAO for natural resources Elena Semedo. Please the floor is yours. Thank you and good morning to all. My dear friend Mr. Grossi this is WMO Secretary General dear participants I am very pleased to be here today to talk about maybe a subject you never think when you talk about nuclear technique and this is what FAO and IEA have been doing together is bringing the nuclear community to the food and agriculture community when you think about and all the speakers talk about energy but how we can bring nuclear approaches and technique to food and agriculture and why this is important to our debate today if you think that one third of the greenhouse gas emission is coming from the agri-food sector the agri-food sector needs and should be part of the solution and this is what we do together we have a joint office established in 1964 since 56 years we have this cooperation with IEA and you have been playing a critical role fighting food insecurity malnutrition and enhancing environment sustainability with innovative solutions we have a group of laboratories that work on water from soils on biotechnology really to leverage research and development to make the agri-food system more resilient, more sustainable and more green and we how we work we work on the laboratories to find a solution and we strengthen the national capacities we work with the countries what we do but we bring it to the countries to help them to improve adaptation and mitigation let me give you an example in Tunisia Tunisia climate change is eroding soil degrading lands we use isotopic techniques and we help the experts to determine the rate of soil erosion evaluate the effectiveness of soil conservation practices with those techniques they were able to reverse the soil degradation we do the same on water pollution we measure the water availability in a soil we determine how much water we need how much fertilizers we need and with this we improve deficiency and when we improve deficiency we use less water we do less soils and less fertilizers we are contributing to climate change adaptation and mitigation but we also work on food safety as climate change also alter patterns of food contaminants such as micro toxins we build the capacity to control the food hazards and nutriarch techniques we have an example in Burkina Faso and recently I don't know if you follow in Mexico we have a fruit fly emergency and we use a technique what we call insect sterilize and we stop this emergency of fruit flies we reduce the loss of food we increase the livelihood of people and we avoid a disease coming from climate change and this what we do we avoid to the emergency and also the emergency of some diseases due to climate change but we use the same with animals we need to to breeding to have higher productivity we know that livestock is a big contributor to climate change if we have better breeding we need to have better possibility to reduce the methane emission and this is also contributing to the emission for animal unit but this to tell you that we work very close to make crops more resilient to increase livelihoods of people but you will ask me how is the accessibility maybe you are talking to a very expensive technique no the accessibility is also part of the work we do together how we can reach the smallholder farmer with these examples but just to conclude I just wanted to share with you an important news that we sent last week seeds to the international space station to develop crops to be able to adapt in the earth and this maybe could be also a revolution regarding what kind of crops we need to be adapt to climate change and what we need to do now we need investment as you said we need to scale up what we are doing together and we need more and better partnership thank you again for being here thank you for your thank you DDGFEO CEMEDO for bringing us to space and breeding from nuclear power and climate change mitigation to food and agriculture climate change adaptation so this is the full range of nuclear and now we have two video message one from Li Hua UN Undersecretary General for Economic and Social Affairs and from Alfonso Blanco Executive Director from Olade so let's see what they have to tell us Accidences Disturbs the participants I want to say there is no atomic energy agency for inviting me to contribute to the opening ceremony of the Atom-4-Clamid Parfaitia Achieving the SDGs and objectives of the Paris Agreement what required all of us to work together with the full vigor this has become the particularly urgent as we are now approaching the point of no return towards the climate disaster while the achievement of the SDG is threatening to slip out of reach how can nuclear energy potentially contribute towards the turning the tide this allow me to share some thoughts first with low levels of the greenhouse gas emissions nuclear power contributes significantly to the emissions reduction existing nuclear power plants avoid approximately one gigaton of carbon dioxide equivalent per year second nuclear technology plays an important role in our society it can be used to monitor pollutions it helps in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and other major diseases third the contribution of the nuclear energy in the future will depend on how each country evaluates nuclear power against renewable and other clean alternatives we must acknowledge however that the nuclear safety remains a significant public concern and a long-term management of nuclear waste is still an unresolved issue that needs to be addressed the cost of competitiveness of the nuclear power will also remain an important factor distinguished participants I would like to commend the commitment of IAEA as a member of the UN Energy to the advancement of SDG7 in climate action including through their energy compact as the secretary of the UN Energy DEZE will continue to strengthen the cooperation with all UN energy organizations the index reviewed of SDG7 at the UN high-level political forum and SDG Summit next year will provide an important platform to strengthen collective actions let us together chapter the way towards a sustainable just and equitable world which truly leaves no one behind thank you I would like to point out the international atomic energy agency within the framework of the 27th conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP 27 The number of countries around the world that are announcing carbon neutrality target for the coming decades continues to grow ambitions to reduce emissions are growing globally and Latin America and the Caribbean Various international organizations are working on carbon-free energy scenarios for 2050. At Olade, we believe that we must work together so increasingly more countries in our region showing the goal of becoming carbon neutral by the second half of the century. In the last six years, Latin America and the Caribbean has strengthened significantly in terms of energy sustainability. The region went from having 56% renewability of the energy generation matrix in 2016 to having 61% in 2022. Six years ago, only four countries exceeded 70% renewability of which only Paraguay had 100%. Today, there are 12 countries that exceed 70%. Paraguay was joined by Costa Rica as a country with 100% renewability of the electricity generation matrix. And now, we are waiting for more. The Relact Initiative, which aims for the region to reach 70% renewability by 2030, has 15 member countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. And is promoted by the Inter-American Development Bank, Olade and other agencies such as IRENA International Energy Agency and SHAICA, among others, which are actively working towards the implementation of the objective. Renewable energy in our region is more than a just way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Renewables are a driver for economic development and shop creation. But nuclear power also plays a significant role in global decarbonization. We share with the International Atomic Energy Agency the vision that without nuclear energy it will be very difficult for the world to meet the climate goals. Nuclear energy has global importance but also in Latin America and the Caribbean where three of our countries really on this source and other countries are considering it in their future energy planning. But these efforts and technologies are not useful without a strong commitment from countries and international institutions to promote and stimulate international cooperation to accelerate decarbonization while strengthening energy security and meeting international climate commitments. Thank you very much for the kind invitation of the International Atomic Energy to the inauguration of the Atoms for Climate Family. Thank you very much. Good morning. Your Excellency, ladies and gentlemen, it's a privilege to join you here today as the president of the World Association of Nuclear Operators and also as a member of the UAE delegation. I would like to start by thanking our Egyptian hosts for their kind hospitality and also his Excellency DG Grossi and the IEA for hosting this event at the Atoms for Climate Rebellion at COP 27. This is a very important for our industry. In the past, the role of nuclear at the conference of parties has been debated. But in Glasgow was a reality check for many nations and it was a turning point for nuclear industry. Since that time, we have seen a new momentum in the civil nuclear industry sector and the world needs larger scale decarbonization and energy security. And nuclear technology offers a huge potential for solving these issues. And it comes to decarbonization and at the same time energy security. The IEA recently forecasted that nuclear energy capacity will need to be doubled by 2050 to be able to meet a net zero. This is a very good news for our industry. But what does this mean for the nuclear industry? It means we must get ahead of the curve when it comes to ensuring that we have the resources and the capacity to deliver the growth for safe and timely and reliable manner of those, the new built, be it generation three or the SMR reactors. Since 1989, one has been a supporting nuclear plant around the world to share knowledge, data and best practices to pursue nuclear operation excellence. The nuclear industry is unique in this regard. It is one of the industries that's only one of the few industries that in the world that share collectively lessons learned, share knowledge, information, access to the fleet to develop a strong nuclear safety culture to drive performance. This is key regardless of type of technology. Today, as many nations look ahead to extend their existing peats or build more units, and many more nations looking to add nuclear energy to energy mix for the first time. This is course for the world a new level of cooperation and innovation in our sector. We must be ready to collaborate, as your excellency mentioned earlier, on a new level and across a new range of advanced technologies. When it comes to SMR and more advanced technologies in an integrated way. We also must train the next generation of our nuclear energy professionals to set a new bar very high for nuclear safety culture. And also must be very prepared for newcomer nations and new technologies and enable them to set the foundation at the right level. And ensure they receive the maximum benefit of our support and collaboration. Speaking from the UAE's experience, the support we have received from WANU and also the IEA has been instrumental in ensuring the UAE's peaceful nuclear energy program to be delivered successfully and also to the highest standard of nuclear safety, security, and non-perforation. Working together with the IEA and WANU, we remain committed to sharing our experience with other nations and to support other nuclear professionals around the world. And also I call upon all our partners to do the same. In doing so, we will ensure that nuclear industry will cement its position as a proven, clean, reliable source of electricity and be with highly trained and experienced people. Work as well as together to be able to net the net-zero target. CUB27 provides an excellent opportunity and a platform for us all for the coming days to highlight our unique approaches and opportunities. We look forward to building on the same path in the coming months and also to welcoming you to the UAE for CUB28. Thank you. Thank you very much President Hamadi for your message which highlights the commitment of the nuclear industries ahead of the curve and set the bar high and also the very unique experience from UAE in terms of the first embarking of the nuclear program. Thank you very much. Now we move to the next speaker, Mary Kosnik, the CEO of Nuclear Energy Initiative. Well thank you very much and a very special thank you to Director General Grossi. I remember several months ago having a conversation and we spoke about a house for nuclear at CUB27. So my sincere thank you for helping to create the House for Nuclear here at CUB27. And I would be remiss to not recognize the other parts of the nuclear industry that contributed to this House of Nuclear. The World Nuclear Association, Nuclear Europe, the Canadian Nuclear Association, JIFE and the Nuclear Industry Association of the United Kingdom and all the members who supported those various organizations to help us contribute to Director General Grossi's vision of including nuclear and an appropriate nuclear message in this very broad conversation. I've been in the nuclear industry for over 34 years and where we stand today is unlike any time that we've had in the nuclear industry and for all the reasons that you've heard in the speakers prior to me, it's the fact that nuclear is the largest scalable carbon-free source that we have today and we have a really big job ahead of us. We need to get moving and nuclear is a large part of the solution. Pairing perfectly with wind and solar and hydro, we absolutely can drive the solution that we need as a planet and we look forward to doing so in the United States thanks to a wonderful partnership with our national labs and the United States government pairing with the private sector. The innovation pipeline is very full and that innovation pipeline is going to be coming out and you're going to be seeing different makes and models, new things from nuclear, from very small micro reactors to medium-sized small modular reactors to the larger reactors and it's going to take all of them. You've heard a lot about electricity today but we have to decarbonize more than electricity. We have to decarbonize the whole economy and that's also where nuclear can be very key to the solution between very high temperature steam, hydrogen as well as the electricity. There's very much that we need to do to work together as a community to get where we need to go. I have small children and I look ahead and I say I want to give them a world that we had the pleasure to live in and that's what we need to work together to create this future for all of the children everywhere. So now is the time for us to band together to work together. Let's make nuclear the grand part of the solution. Thank you very much. Thank you very much Maria for this very inspiring message about what we need to do now even for our future generations. Thank you, thank you very inspiring. So we have a next speaker, Sama Birbal Leon, the Director General from World Nuclear Association. She cannot come in person. She will join later this week but she will send the video message to this ground opening. Good morning. I am delighted to address you today to celebrate the official opening of the Atoms for Climate pavilion. I'm sorry I can't be there with you today in person but I look forward to seeing many of you at the pavilion later this week. First I want to thank the International Atomic Energy Agency for their invitation to World Nuclear Association to partner with them in this impressive pavilion. World Nuclear Association has represented the global nuclear industry at COP meetings for more than 20 years. And it was very nice last year at COP 26 in Glasgow to see a change in attitude, to see a positive attitude towards nuclear energy. So that was good but this is now the moment for the nuclear industry to really step up. It is essential for the nuclear industry to demonstrate that it has the capacity and the ambition to deliver the massive contribution to climate change mitigation that will be needed if the global community is to succeed in reaching net zero at the time and with the urgency needed. The events being held at the Atoms for Climate pavilion will give us the opportunity to exchange with global leaders to the decision makers, the finance community and the press and many other NGOs the important role that nuclear energy can contribute to climate change. And for this innovation is going to be very, very important. Particularly for the carbonisation beyond electricity generation because although the share of electricity is rising it still represents only a fifth of the overall energy consumption. There are many low carbon generation options however only nuclear energy can supply both the electricity and the heat with zero carbon. New reactor designs including small modular reactors will enable nuclear energy to be used for a broader range of energy applications to decarbonise the entire economy. And those smaller reactor designs enable nuclear energy to be used in a broader range of locations something that is particularly important in ensuring energy equity where we recognise inequalities and ensure that every person in every country in every continent has access to affordable and reliable energy supplies. This is a long term goal that will require more than the discussions and decisions that are going to be taken here. But let's put all our energy into ensuring that COP 27 moves us forward. Thank you and I'll see you later in the week. I'm sure she can hear you from where she is. There is a lot of energy today and now we're going to our last segment because we know how partnership is strategic and here this pavilion atoms for climate here because of partnerships with UN organization and nuclear associations. So now we will hear from key stakeholders that are engaging and they are key to reach net zero. So for this we welcome Dominique Mouillot from Women in Nuclear. She is the global president. Dear IAEA director general representative and authorities it is a pleasure and a great honour to be with you today for women in nuclear and be part of the opening ceremony of the Atoms for Climate pavilion. WING Global is an international legal organization promoting gender equality and nuclear for climate. As you know the climate crisis is one of the most significant challenges facing humanity today. Women and children as traditionally vulnerable and disadvantaged groups worldwide are heavily affected by climate change. Extreme weather events including roads and floods are affecting access to clean water, exacerbating food scarcity in many regions and threatening existing energy infrastructures that provide power to schools and homes. If we are to reverse the current trend we need to develop and deploy greenhouse gas free energy solutions that are affordable, accessible and suitable for a wide variety of populations and geographic regions suitable for women and children. Thus WING Global advocates the inclusion of nuclear energy solutions because they can provide carbon dioxide pollution free electricity as well as access to clean water by desalination providing in hygienic sanitation facilities for many communities or clean hydrogen to power vehicles. Furthermore unemployment can be solved by offering new care jobs including women and girls. Women in nuclear is engaged by its action on the road of decarbonization all over the world promoting diversity and gender equality developing women leadership becoming energy policy decision makers. We play a relevant role in all continents we promote education especially for girls and young girls. We promote inclusivity and gender solidarity bringing different voices, insights and female experts contributing to develop innovative solutions. Inspired by our actions worldwide many young talents decided to join us and it is a merit because we benefit from their innovative vision to contribute to the tremendous challenges the world is facing. It makes us very optimistic. The young generation is moving. Here I would like to address a special thanks to Raphael Grossi who is actively supporting the actions of Wynn Global and who is a strong defender of gender equality. I encourage all of you men and women to join our actions and I thank you very much. Thank you Madame Mouillot and that's clear you know parity equality has to be here and we have it with our speakers we had six men six women so perfect equality today. Now I will invite to the floor Mr. Jawinga Natchdair from nuclear for climate and Christian Vega from the young nuclear so to give some remarks on behalf of the young generation. Hello everyone hope you can hear me well. Thank you very much for being here today and you know I would like to stress that as we've been hearing for quite some time here at the COP and from our previous colleagues as well we are facing great challenges in the decades to come and we are facing great challenges right now for sure. In the years to come we need to decarbonize our economies and we need to do that at the same time that we are producing more energy and personally I believe that this is one of the greatest challenges that humanity has ever faced at least in our history but it's also true that even when climate change presents a great risk for humanity it's always the case that big risk comes with great opportunities. Nuclear technology has a possibility to play a crucial role together with renewables in reaching or decarbonizing our economies. Trying to reach net zero without nuclear will be very difficult but will also be very expensive for all of us. Nevertheless within the nuclear industry or the nuclear sector we have our own challenges. We need to work towards reducing construction costs, delays we need to work towards having international harmonization of licensing we need to work towards engaging the young generation and young professionals coming into the nuclear industry but also making sure that we can have knowledge transfer between generations because we cannot forget our lessons learned. As a young nuclear engineer I can assure you that it's a hero whole international community ready to tackle these challenges and I want to thank the International Atomic Energy Commission for giving the youth a voice and space and by doing so acknowledging the role of the young people and the young professionals in these challenges. Thank you. In the youth communities we work to empower the youth to understand all those challenges and find their place in solving them. So we work tirelessly to educate children and the youth and to help them find their way in their career in the STEM fields and especially in nuclear. We also help them to realize their ideas and empower them to organize and realize projects that will be impossible as a single person as an individual but in a group when we are together so much more is possible. We bring this energy also to COP in scope of the network of nuclear for climate that is a global network and since 2015 it's led by youth from more than 150 organizations. Here we are having conversations with the participants one-on-one explaining and clarifying all their doubts. We are also organizing site events and different creative actions bringing this voice of nuclear and showing that the future can be bright and there is a hope in this difficult climate change topic. Actually one of the main messages of nuclear for climate apart from net zero needs nuclear is also together is better. We are talking there about the fact that inclusion of different sources of energy is the way towards successful energy needs in the future. In here I want to say that actually together is better is bringing a new meaning. For the first time there is one stage where all the nuclear voices from all the spectrum of activity in nuclear technologies and energy can meet in one place and talk about their contribution to the fight with climate change. So thank you very much for this opportunity and as a care for climate we will be very, very honored to participate in that. Thank you for your inspiring message. Together is better with renewable and nuclear but also with all generation together. That's clear. So now we turn to T.J. Grossi for him to give his closing remarks and he has an important announcement for us. Thank you very much. I thank you for having stayed for the whole thing in spite of the noise and the flies around us but it adds to the biodiversity of the event, I believe. Well let me say that I'm so glad that these testimonies prove what we said in the beginning. We have all these different perspectives we heard from government, we heard from the nuclear industry we heard from our sister international organizations we look it from the angle of energy we look it from the angle of food, the health we didn't talk about it but IAA is about curing cancer doing so many things. So actually it's a force for good and because this is a force for good it is like Sophie was saying that we are going to be working for a new initiative which is going to be called Adam for Net Zero which is a focused project that we have to work with those who have decided like your countries for example that nuclear is an integral part of the Emirates it's an integral part of their national strategies to get to Net Zero. You may have countries that were in nuclear before and that could be in nuclear in the future for a number of reasons that have to do with their economies their choices etc. But now we have those confirmed nuclear users or as we call them newcomers that say hey in this big mess we are in there is something there is nuclear energy how can we use it? And I can tell you that we get a lot of this kind of demand for countries that have nothing that never had a research reactor are coming to us and saying is this for us as well or are we excluded no one is excluded no one should be excluded and with the advent of new technologies and the support of the nuclear industry other international organizations ourselves we can bring everybody to a level where they can do this. So again thank you for your patience thank you for being here with us for this I don't want to use the word historic because you know and it's a bit banalized but this very important first the fact that at a cop atoms for peace and development atoms for net zero have a place so let's get together continue enjoying your week and thank you for being part of this thank you very much Thank you very much Gigi for this important initial announcement So with that one ladies and gentlemen the end of this grand opening thank you for your attending in the coming two weeks we are going to have more than 40 events here happen together with our partners I hope you can join us and thank you very much and now we have some coffee break a quick announcement very soon monetarily we're going to have another event happening in just 10 minutes which is our DG is going to be interviewed by Bloomberg journalist thank you very much