Date Published: 01/10/10

FG to hold stakeholders meeting on Climate Change Governance

A crucial meeting of all stakeholders in the National Climate Change Governance in Nigeria is to be held soon.

The Federal Ministry of Environment is calling the meeting to review the recent Climate Change Agreement made in Copenhagen  during the 15 th meeting of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

During the National Stakeholders meeting every aspect of the Copenhagen Accord will be reviewed and deliberated in line with Nigeria’s interest.

The stakeholders meeting will draw participants from the public and private sectors, especially the Organized Private Sector, the academics, the civil society as well as from all the three tiers of government in Nigeria.

The forthcoming stakeholders meeting will also sign-post the intensive preparation of Nigeria to ensure that a legally binding agreement on emission cut and adaptation matters is procured at the next Climate Change Conference in Mexico.

Nigeria had participated actively at the Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen Denmark in December last year.

The Nigerian Delegation to the Conference was  led by the Honourable Minister of Environment, Mr. John Odey, while Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Ojo Madueke, represented and read a statement on behalf of the Head of State and President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua at the High Level Segment.

Throughout the Conference, the Nigerian Delegation maintained an exhibition stand where various publications on Nigeria’s effort to address climate change issues were displayed and distributed to visitors free of charge.

Nigeria’s participation provided  exposure to opportunities of various  GREEN technologies that could be used to address critical issues of climate change and green job potentials

Conclusions of the conference clearly imply the need to search for homegrown strategies for mobilizing finance to address the challenges of climate change at the national level.

The Copenhagen Conference Agreement took clear recognition of the responsibility of the industrialised countries to commit to economy-wide emission targets as from the year 2020 while developing countries would voluntarily list their emission pledges by the end of this month.