Osinbajo will speak on climate change at a university in the US.

 On Saturday, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will fly out of Abuja for Philadelphia, where he will give a Special Lecture at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn).

According to a statement from Osinbajo's spokesman, Laolu Akande, the vice president would also take part in an interactive session with academics and students organized by Wale Adebanwi, professor of Africana studies at UPenn.

The University's Center for Africana Studies is presenting the vice president's speech on April 24 with a focus on Climate Change and a Just Transition.

Osinbajo is now leading initiatives to establish the African Carbon Market as one of the pathways of a just and sustainable transition. He is a leading voice and ardent supporter of a Just Energy Transition for Africa and the developing world.

One of the eight American private institutions known as the Ivy League, UPenn was first founded as a charitable institution in 1740.

Benjamin Franklin, a future founding father of the United States and the institution's first head of the Board of Trustees, eventually converted it into an academy in 1751.

It was established in 2015 as a result of the University of Pennsylvania's merging of the Afro-American Studies Program and the Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture.

In collaboration with other University faculties like PennCarey Law, Perry World House, Wharton Business School, Coalition for Equity and Opportunity, and Perelman School of Medicine, the center is sponsoring the vice president's Special Lecture.

Following his meetings in Philadelphia, Osinbajo is anticipated to arrive back in Abuja.