{"id":2390,"date":"2021-11-25T13:49:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T13:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2021-11-25T13:49:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T13:49:34","slug":"nigeria-takes-a-step-towards-climate-change-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/nigeria-takes-a-step-towards-climate-change-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Takes A Step Towards Climate Change Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, 18<sup>th<\/sup> November, signed the Climate Change Bill into law. The new Act generally provides a framework for environmental-economic accountability. It also provides for the establishment of a National Council on Climate Change to promote and adopt nature-based solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change issues in Nigeria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Act also establishes a registry with\nsub-national nodes for \u2018<em>Reducing\nEmissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation<\/em>\u2019 (REDD+), a mechanism developed by the\nUnited Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to facilitate\nintergovernmental co-operation on forests and climate change. The National\nCouncil is also expected to provide support for REDD+ activities, as well as\ncollaborate with the National Bureau of Statistics on the development of Natural\nCapital Accounts for Nigeria. The data from these accounts are expected to be\nutilised in establishing National Development Plans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is commendable that Nigeria is making\nefforts towards a global action such as climate change, especially in view of\nits position as a major producer of oil and gas and the environmental impact of\nfossil fuel. It will be recalled that at the United Nations Climate Change\nConference (COP 26) which held earlier in November 2021 at Glasgow, United\nKingdom, President Buhari pledged that Nigeria will work towards achieving\nnet-zero carbon emission by 2060, alongside other world leaders. Provisions of\nthe&nbsp; newly enacted Climate Change Act are\nalso geared towards the realisation of this goal, to stabilise global\ntemperatures. The President also stated that Nigeria is investing in renewable\nenergy projects and would require the collaboration of partners in innovation,\ntechnology and finance to make the transition from fossil fuel to clean energy.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria Takes A Step Towards Climate Change Action <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions\/2396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}