President Muhammadu Buhari has identified climate change as one of the major challenges facing humanity. Buhari made this known yesterday at State House, Abuja, while inaugurating the National Council on Climate, shortly before presiding over the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting.
“The latest Intergovernmental Panel on climate change report warns that rising Green House Gas emissions could soon outstrip the ability of communities to adapt, and the window for taking decisive steps needed to spare our planet from the gravest impacts of climate change is rapidly narrowing. He said Nigeria was a party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, an established international treaty to combat “dangerous human interference with the climate system,” in part, by stabilising Green House Gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
“It is imperative therefore that those lapses earlier alluded to – which includes the establishment of states and zonal offices creating a huge and costly bureaucracy is not acceptable. He also directed the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to, in conjunction with the Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abdullahi, initiate appropriate amendments of “noticeable implementation challenges” inherent in the Act.
Buhari appreciated Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for heading Nigeria’s Energy Transition Plan, presiding over the global launch of the plan, and initiating its marketing by engaging key stakeholders in the United States.
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