Nigerian Minister of Environment, Sharon Ikeazor, has challenged stakeholders to the post COP26 workshop to evolve a roadmap, on climate change mitigation and adaptation in the country, as fall out of their Glasgow outcomes for the country
The minister told the participants at the workshop that resolving issues around climate change would greatly impact the future of Nigeria positively.
Ikeazor said this on Thursday, at The Post COP 26 Stakeholder Consultative Meeting which was held in Abuja.
The minister maintained that Nigeria would continue to implement its locally designed mitigation programmes for Nigeria climate change challenges.
She said: “I look forward to the robust National Roadmap that will emerge from this meeting.
“Dealing with climate change is the future of our economy, let us use this opportunity to build for the future.
“The good news today is that we now have a climate change law that will coordinate and guide our efforts in addressing climate change and give it legitimacy.
“One key step post COP26 was to hold a stakeholder consultative meeting to take stock of Nigeria’s engagements at the COP26, areas of improvement and future action.
“The ministry will continue to implement existing programmes and projects in addressing climate change and future programmes and projects such as the development of Nigeria’s NDC Sectoral Action Plan.
“Implementation of the revised NDC, issuance of a 3rd Nigeria Sovereign Green Bond, Development of a Nigeria National Readiness Plan for assessing the Green Climate Fund (GCF).
“Implementation of the National Action Plan on Gender and Climate Change, Preparation of Nigeria’s First Technology Needs Assessment and Development of the National Adaptation Plan,” she stated.
Ikeazor noted that “a whole-of-society integrated approach is needed to ensure climate action encourages social inclusion rather than discord.
“Moving forward, the ministry will continue to broaden the scope of the NDC and ensure that relevant stakeholders are being carried along in all issues of NDC implementation. And I appreciate our development partners for acting as catalysts to strengthen engagement and capacity to support transformative climate action through mobilization of resources.
She noted that Nigeria expectations at COP26 were met, though partially, there was a scale up on adaptation finance and in loss and damage, this implies Nigeria will have access to more funds to implement its locally-led adaptation.
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