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Buhari seeks broader action from UN

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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), Thursday in Nairobi, called for broader action to overcome climate change, biodiversity, rising pollution levels, and waste being three major crises threatening the planet.

Buhari said this in a congratulatory message to the Special Session to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the United Nations.

Buhari’s appeal was contained in a statement signed on Thursday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, titled ‘President Buhari lauds UNEP at 50, calls for broader actions to overcome environmental challenges.”

Buhari said the coming of the United Nations Environmental Programme 50 years ago created the awareness of the need to make climate and environmental action a priority for the entire world while urging concerted action to make the organisation’s efforts a success story.

He said, “As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of UNEP’s existence, we laud the efforts of UNEP and encourage broader action to overcome climate change, biodiversity, rising levels of pollution and waste being three major crises threatening our planet.

“Notably, desertification and drought are threatening lives and livelihoods, which further underscores the need to boost biodiversity in ecosystem restoration.

“We thank UNEP for its role in reducing biodiversity loss and for being a major player in the global movement to slow deforestation and accelerate aforestation.

“We recognise that restoring critical ecosystems is crucial to help combat climate change and achieve sustainable development. Therefore, by collaborating with partners such as UNEP, we believe that much more successes would be recorded as we journey in our collective struggle against climate change.”

The President also reiterated Nigeria’s commitment towards addressing the devastating effects of climate change, saying, “During last year’s COP26 in Glasgow, parties worked towards spurring action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while also pledging to take steps to adapt to climate impacts.”

He noted that nations are constantly facing the threats of disrupted weather patterns, low food production, and rising sea levels that increase the risk of catastrophic flooding, among other challenges.

“In that regard, Nigeria pledged to work with other countries in achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement and in doing so has increased her conditional contribution to reducing greenhouse gas from 45 per cent to 47 per cent.

“Additionally, I outlined Nigeria’s efforts and commitments towards transitioning to Net Zero ambition which involved both environment and development-related plans.

“The plans contained several nature-based solutions, which included expansion of protected areas by creating ten additional National Parks, two Marine Protected Areas cutting across the various ecological zones of the country, and sustainable management of critical wetlands ecosystems across the country,” the President said.

He thanked the Ministers of Environment, and their team for their commitment and active participation during the resumed Fifth Session of the United Nations General Assembly, which preceded the commemorative event.

He also called for “redoubled collective efforts to improve and sustain climate action, nature action, chemical and pollution action, air, bio-safety, disasters and conflicts, green economy, gender, oceans and seas, resource efficiency, water, and youth education to save our planet and achieve the 2030 agenda on sustainable development.”

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