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Nigeria Moves To Strengthen Ties With Egypt On Environmental Issues

BY CHIKA OKEKE, Abuja

 L-R: Director-General of World Wide Fund (WWF), Dr Marco Lambertini brainstorming with Nigeria’s Minister of State for Environment, Barr Sharon Ikeazor at the just concluded Fifth Resumed United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA- 5.2) in Nairobi, Kenya recently. 

The federal government has expressed its readiness to strengthen bilateral ties with the Egyptian government on environmental issues ahead of the upcoming 27th session of the Conference of Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Egypt this year.

Minister of State for Environment, Barr Sharon Ikeazor stated this in Nairobi, Kenya during her parley with the Egyptian Foreign Minister and the COP 27 President-designate, Sameh Shoukry at the just concluded Fifth Resumed United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA- 5.2).

Ikeazor led Nigeria’s delegation to the high level plenary which took place from 28th February to 2nd March, with the theme, "Strengthening Actions for Nature to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals."

Nigeria is a member of the UNEA, which is the world’s highest-level decision-making body on environment that addresses critical environmental challenges facing the world today.

While delivering Nigeria’s national statement, the minister said that the federal government has adopted several approaches targeted at greening the environment such as the National Forest Policy (NFP), aimed at promoting sustainable forest management practices.

Also, National Policies on Plastic Waste Management and Solid Waste Management that supports and promotes circular economy; Drought and Desertification Policy for the actualisation of land degradation neutrality and increased community resilience, and among others. 

She reiterated Nigeria’s commitment to global environmental sustainability and attainment of the country's Nationally Determined Contribution’s (NDCs), with 20 percent emissions reduction unconditionally and 47 percent emissions reduction conditionally by 2030.

Ikeazor stated that Nigeria has developed an Energy Transition Plan (ETP) as a pathway to achieve net-zero emissions by 2060, in addition to the enactment of a climate change law in November, 2021 which provides a legal framework for climate change mitigation and adaptation.    

During her talks with the Director- General of World Wild Fund (WWF) For nature, Mr. Marco Lambertini, she informed on Nigeria’s commitment to Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and the need to collaborate with WWF on the management of ten new national parks approved by President Muhammadu Buhari especially the two designated Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in Bayelsa State.

The minister also had an engagement with the Swedish Minister of Environment on the preparation and areas of collaboration for the upcoming Stockholm +50, meant to commemorate 50 years since the first UN conference on human environment was held in 1972 in Stockholm, Sweden. 

The theme of the conference is , "Stockholm+50: a healthy planet for the prosperity of all-our responsibility, our opportunity."

Nigeria has signed and ratified all the chemicals and waste related Treaties, and is currently strengthening legal and institutional infrastructures for the sound management of chemicals and waste.

These were contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja by the Director of Press, Federal Ministry of Environment, Saghir el Mohammed. 

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