I was born and raised here in Lagos.
It's a beautiful city,
home to more than 25 million people.
It's a vibrant and economic powerhouse.
But it's also at great risk.
To protect our future, we need to adapt.
We're planning to do more.
We're taking vital steps to rethink, redesign
and reinforce Lagos' critical infrastructure
and network of systems to reduce the damaging impact of flooding.
But simply protecting the infrastructure isn't enough.
We're working to protect our people too.
By reinforcing 18km of coastal embankments
and building new sea walls,
we're helping to protect more than 1.5 million coastal residents.
We're also working at relocating and empowering
more than 300,000 vulnerable people from across Lagos
and supporting them with that transition.
We've also been hard at work improving our crisis response too.
That means we're ensuring climate risk is built into
all decision-making, laws and policies,
improving our capacity to respond to crisis quickly and effectively.
The effects of climate change can't be ignored.
They are taking a serious toll on our city.
Lagos - already Africa's largest city -
is predicted to expand by 77 people every hour
between now and the year 2030.
There's no time to lose.
The good news is that by working together
we're making a difference and building
a better, more resilient future for the city and its people.