President
Muhammadu Buhari has officially signed 'Paris Agreement on Climate
Change' at the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York
September 22, 2016.
President
Buhari with R-L: Mr. Stephen Mathias, Assistant Secretary-General for
Legal Affairs, United Nations, Mr. Santiago Villalpando, Chief of the
Treaty Section, OLA, United Nations, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Geoffrey Onyeama, Minister of Environment Amina Mohammed as he signs
Paris Agreement on Climate Change at the sidelines of the UN General
Assembly in New York September 22, 2016.
BUHARI SIGNS PARIS AGREEMENT; SAYS NIGERIA WILL REVERSE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his signing of the Paris
Agreement on Climate Change has demonstrated Nigeria’s commitment to a
global effort to reverse the effects of the negative trend.
The President said this while addressing the opening of the meeting
on Taking Climate Action for Sustainable Development in New York,
co-hosted by Nigeria and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
as one of the Side Events of the 71st Session of the United Nations
General Assembly (UNGA71).
President Buhari, had shortly before this event, signed the Paris Agreement, where he committed Nigeria to reducing “Green House Gas Emissions unconditionally by 20 per cent and conditionally by 45 per cent” in line with Nigeria’s Nationally Determined Contributions.”
Describing the signing as historic, he had also expressed confidence
that with support from development partners, Nigeria will meet the above
targets.
The President also promised to ensure the ratification of the Paris
Agreement before the 22nd Conference of Parties to the UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change in Marrakesh, Morocco in November 2016.
He stressed that it was to demonstrate his personal dedication to
the process of implementing the Agreement that he was hosting the side
event on Taking Climate Action Towards Sustainable Development.
President Buhari, who said he was privileged to have been part of the Paris Agreement, expressed appreciation to what he called “the genuine efforts by President Francois Hollande of France in drawing global attention to reviving the Lake Chad Basin,” and for galvanizing the political will that led to the global consensus in reaching the Paris Agreement.
The Nigerian President said his country’s commitment to the Paris
Agreement is articulated through its Nationally Determined Contributions
(NDCs) “that strive to build a climate resilient society across the
diverse terrain of Nigeria. We have instituted an Inter-Ministerial
Committee on Climate Change to govern implementation of my country’s
NDCs, thereby ensuring a strong cross-sectoral approach, coherence and
synergy for Climate Action.”
President Buhari, while admitting that implementing the Roadmap
will not be easy in the face of dwindling national revenues, however,
indicated that both internal and external resources would be mobilized
to meet Nigeria’s targets, adding that the 2017 Budget will reflect
Nigeria’s efforts to accord priority to realizing its NDCs.
“In addition, we are set to launch our first ever Green Bonds
in the first quarter of 2017 to fund a pipeline of projects all targeted
at reducing emissions towards a greener economy,” he said.
While urging global support to transit to a low-carbon climate
resilient economy, the President specifically reminded industrialized
nations “to play their role and deliver on their commitments on
access to climate finance and technology transfer and help with
capacity-building,” adding that, “Expectations are high for
their leaders to deliver US$100 billion per year by 2020 in support of
developing countries to take climate action, thus keeping the promise to
billions of people.”
President Buhari, who thanked the Presidents of Chad, Cameroon,
Democratic Republic of Congo and Niger for attending the event, also
called on the international community to “give special recognition
to the plight of Lake Chad and support our effort to resuscitate the
livelihoods of over 5 million people in the region. This will reinforce
our efforts to reintegrate the thousands of Boko Haram victims and
returning Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).”
The President noted that the Niger Delta region is a unique
biodiversity rich in coastal environment that is highly prone to adverse
environmental changes occasioned by climate change, such as sea level
rise, coastal erosion, exacerbated by poverty and many decades of oil
pollution leading to loss of livelihoods and ecosystems.
He added however, that “through an integrated approach,
implementation of the NDCs, and our efforts to clean up Ogoniland, we
will improve livelihoods, protect the environment and take climate
action, and ensure the implementation of the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs).”
FEMI ADESINA
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)
September 22, 2016
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