 The timing of this partnership is crucial and its success in catalyzing climate action in agriculture and food security is very important. We find great pride in launching and continuing the Food and Agriculture for Sustainable Transformation Initiative. As it was conceived and launched in Charmesheikh, it seeks to implement concrete action that would result in improving the quantity and quality of climate finance and act as an accelerator to transform agri-food systems to deliver a triple win for people for climate and nature. The partnership will focus on the food pillars, enhancing capacities to access climate finance and investments, building knowledge and capacity and providing policy support and dialogue. COP28 Presidency also views FAST as one of the key elements and partner that will deliver the promises of the Emirati Declaration. When FAST was launched, the most important element to it is that we are going to address the bottleneck of scaling up for sustainable transformation in agriculture and that is finance. With its action and coordination focus, the FAST partnership is an exciting and valuable initiative. We also welcome the important focus FAST brings to agriculture and global climate discussions. And we would like to thank the FAO and Government of Egypt for their ongoing work in this initiative and bringing us together. It is our express honour to take part in the FAST partnership board. We commit to engage the creativity, energy and indeed the present and future of youth and food systems to implement climate mitigation and adaptation. Agri-food systems hold enormous potential for building adaptation, resilience, mitigation and food security. And the diminishing trend of both agri-food and adaptation investment is a missed opportunity to equip farmers with the knowledge to enhance their resilience and adapt to climate change impact. Together we are writing a new narrative that plays agri-food systems at the core of climate change negotiations as a powerful solution that needs adequate investment. Thank you.