Mr. Maurice Sadlier:

I am here in a supportive role but I am never a man to turn down an opportunity to talk. I am here in Somalia today so this conversation is really important and brought things home to me as I spent three hours this morning in an internally displaced people's camp with women who have lost everything because of climate change. I sat with a 70-year-old woman who had 50 goats two years ago but now has absolutely nothing and is looking after 16 grandchildren because three of her sons are dead so this loss and damage fund becomes increasingly important. To me, COP28 or COP29 would be too late because we need the funding now. We really need to be much more serious about our climate ambitions as Ms Ramadhani asked us to be. In our funding for the response to climate change we need to be so much more ambitious and do so much more at home and abroad in our response. I cannot really put into words the situation of the women in the camp this morning. They have absolutely nothing and their situation is directly related to climate change, the world's inability to act and the fact that politics takes over and damages real people's lives and really impacts their lives.

If we listen to Ms Ramadhani and her peers and if we involve them then they can hold us to account. We must have greater inclusion of children in these processes because this is their futures that we are messing with and dealing with. If we listen to them we will be held to a higher level of accountability and we must act on her requests.