While climate change is clearly one of the most socio-economic and development challenges facing Nigeria, many worry that Nigeria’s approach to addressing it is riddled with puzzling contradictions., held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, ended last week, after 14 days of what could ultimately be the world’s most frenzied multilateral and bilateral engagements on climate change so far.
The essence of these summits, since first convening in 1995, is to get governments signatories to the climate convention to agree on measures for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, in order to achieve the threshold necessary for the preservation of the environment and protection of humanity. For context, the results of the first-ever UNFCCC Global Stocktake (GST) – a comprehensive collective review of the progress made towards meeting the goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement – showed that the parties were not on course to limiting warming to 1.5°C of pre-industrial levels by the end of the centur
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