The Federal Authorities has entered into partnership with Agence Francaise de Improvement on the decarbonisation of the Nigerian economic system as a part of measures to mitigate local weather change results.
The Minister of State for Atmosphere, Chief Sharon Ikeazor, disclosed this on the current inauguration and inception workshop of the Nigeria Deep Decarbonisation Challenge in Abuja.
She defined that the Deep Decarbonisation Challenge Nigeria was a nationwide analysis and capability constructing venture for the implementation of a Deep Decarbonisation Pathway Programme in Nigeria.
“DDP is a collaboration venture between the the Federal Ministry of Atmosphere, Nigeria and the Agence Francaise de Improvement with the Worldwide Relation and Sustainable Improvement Institute because the programme coordinator,” Ikeazor mentioned.
She added, “The decarbonisation of the worldwide economic system has lengthy been recognised as an crucial within the battle in opposition to local weather change. Nonetheless, this has assumed even a higher urgency for the reason that singing of the Paris Settlement in 2015.”
She mentioned the central function of deep decarbonisation was at the moment important, as there had been a compelling scientific case for speedy discount of emission throughout all sectors of the economic system to avert disastrous and catastrophic local weather impacts.
The minister mentioned the aim of the inauguration and inception work was to current the DDP venture to the bigger neighborhood of stakeholders to start dialog on the eventualities and modeling choices that would assist Nigeria obtain its acknowledged long run local weather targets.
She mentioned one of many main targets embrace the aim of web zero emission by 2060, stressing that the Nigeria Deep Decarbonisation Challenge was due to this fact a vital element within the nation’s effort to navigate over the cruel and ugly dangers of local weather change.
“Certainly, as many right here will attest, we’re already being confronted with the harmful penalties of excessive climate in current instances with big monetary stress,” Ikeazor mentioned.
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She added, “Nigeria is among the signatories to the Paris Settlement that outlines actions towards local weather change mitigation, resilience, and adaptation.
“Nigeria additionally recognises that simply transition to a low-emission economic system is necessary to realize sustainable growth objectives within the context of socio-economic and environmental sustainability.”
The minister, nevertheless, acknowledged that the Federal Authorities had made a number of local weather change interventions supposed to mitigate local weather change and enhance resilience to avert the excruciating penalties of local weather change.
She mentioned the President, Main Common Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had signed into regulation the Local weather Change Invoice, which offered a authorized framework to articulate a long-term local weather plan for Nigeria to realize a web zero carbon emission goal, amongst others.
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