‘Nigeria adopts nature-based solutions to tackle climate change’

A lawmaker and the Vice President (Africa) of Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE) International, Sam Onuigbo on Thursday said that Nigeria has adopted nature-based solutions to tackle climate change.

Onuigbo, who is also President GLOBE Nigeria said this on the occasion of the launch of research works on the REDD+, Great Green Wall Initiative and Natural Capital Accounting in Abuja on Thursday.

The lawmaker who represents Ikwunano/Umuahia North/South Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives said the country had taken the very important step of applying nature-based solutions to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change through reducing emissions from forest degradation and deforestation and the Great Green Wall programmes.

According to him, “Global conversations on the need for governments, cities and regions, businesses, and private organizations to commit to increased action to address the impacts of climate change have picked up recently. This is especially so as the preparation towards the 26th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of parties starting at the end of the month in Glasgow, Scotland, gathers momentum.

“One other thing that has increased this important conversation is the Code red report released a few months ago by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which has made it clear that this decade presents humanity with the last chance to reverse the impacts of climate change or catastrophe awaits. It is therefore our responsibility as important stakeholders to pay attention and find ways through which we can help our countries achieve their nationally determined contributions

“One of the ways of doing this while at the same time sustainably developing the country is through what experts have identified as nature-based solutions. Nigeria has of course taken the very important step of applying nature-based solutions in our quest to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change through Reducing Emissions from forest degradation and deforestation and the Great Green Wall Initiatives programmes.”

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