The Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abdullahi, has expressed Nigeria’s ability to tackle climate change challenges through the Climate Change Act.
The Minister stated this in the spirit of Nigeria joining the rest of the world to commemorate this year’s World Environment Day held June 5.
At an event to mark the 2022 World Environment Day, themed: “One earth, together we can protect it,” organised by the Ministry in partnership with the European Union and the French Embassy in Nigeria, held in Abuja, Abdullahi expressed the government’s readiness to join the climate change solutions train.
He said: “Between these last six months, we have the Climate Change Act, which is indeed bringing a major policy framework that will allow us to tackle the climate change challenges.”
Between these last six months, we have the Climate Change Act, which is indeed bringing a major policy framework that will allow us to tackle the climate change challenges.
Abdullahi, represented by the Permanent Secretary, Hassan Musa, also said the Ministry has the energy transition programme it is working with the Federal Ministry of Petroleum and Power to see how emissions into the climate can be controlled in Nigeria.
The French Ambassador to Nigeria, Emmanuelle Blatmann, said France is playing its full part in this effort within the international community and is deploying a comprehensive diplomacy to respond to the urgency of the climate environmental crisis in Nigeria.
“The French Embassy, the French Development Agency (AFD) and their partners including the Federal Ministry of Environment are working hard to spread these convictions and support to initiatives of the civil society aiming to reduce the impact of climate change in Nigeria.
“This year for instance, we are supporting the Centre for Renewable Energy and action on climate change and also different foundations or associations that are working on, you know – training in climate smart farming practices or solar water irrigation systems, and also, nursery tree beds for instance in Sokoto State,” he said.
