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The National Council on Environment has advocated a shift from the resource extraction and consumption-based economy of Nigeria to a model that will focus on reusing, repairing, refurbishing and recycling materials to boost growth.
The council said such an environmentally friendly model will guarantee the de-carbonization and mitigation of climate change for long term sustainability.
The council comprising of Commissioners of Environment from the 36 states of Nigeria, the Ministry of Environment, its MDAs and parastatals, arrived at the resolution during a meeting on “Managing Emerging Environmental Challenges: Need for Strategic Approach to Sustainable Development in Covid-19 Era and Beyond”.
A communiqué at the end of the meeting tasked the federal government to ensure its environmental management and protection effort empowers vulnerable groups and creates jobs through waste to wealth projects, afforestation and reforestation as well as agro-based, smart agriculture.
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Nigeria ratified the Paris agreement in 2017 and has since, among others, pledged to cut carbon emissions conditionally (with international support) by 45 per cent and unconditionally (without international support) by 20 per cent by 2030 in its first Nationally Determined Contributions. However, Nigeria still lacks the required legal and regulatory provisions to back its climate ambitions, climate activists have said.
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PREMIUM TIMES, the activists therefore called for the passage of the Nigerian Climate Change Bill to foster Nigeria’s climate actions.
The Minister of State for Environment, Sharon Ikeazor, recently called for the speedy passage of the Climate Change Bill into law. She made this call at the meeting of the National Council on Environment which was held from April 7 to 9. Speaking at the opening of the event, she said the passing of the bill into law is “necessary so as to have a legal instrument that would address the myriads of clim
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The Federal Government, on Friday, announced its decision to accelerate the implementation of Ogoni clean-up.
Minister of Environment, Dr Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar, who also announced the government’s readiness to accelerate the implementation of the Great Green Wall (GGW) Programme, stated this at the 14th National Council on Environment (NCE) meeting, held in Abuja.
He said steady and modest progress is being made in accomplishing relevant goals related to the development of the sector, in alignment with the resolutions of the past Council meetings.
Dr Abubakar further said the government would promote and set targets for tree planting towards meeting President Muhammadu Buhari’s declared commitment to planting 25 million trees in 2025.
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