Chairman, Senate Committee on the Environment, Senator Ike Ekweremadu has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to assent the Climate change.
He urged the president while addressing reporters on the sidelines of the Climate Conference holding in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Ekweremadu, regretted that Nigeria had not given the environment adequate attention in terms of funding as well as policy and legal frameworks.
His words, He said, “Nigeria has not shown sufficient interest and commitment in terms of budgetary provisions to the Ministry of Environment and its agencies as well as funding projects and policies in the environmental sector.
“So, COP26 is an opportunity for those of us here to attract investments, opportunities, and supports from our global partners and the international community to drive some of these initiatives because climate change is real.
“So, I am happy that we have been able to pass the Climate Change Bill, which is awaiting the President’s assent.
“Hopefully, the assent will be accelerated now that the President is here and saw what is happening in different parts of the world and he must have interacted with his colleague Heads of States and Governments.”
Meanwhile, Ekweremadu also noted that the proposed Green Grid remains Nigeria’s greatest takeaway from the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26.
The Senator said, “I think the greatest takeaway from this COP26 is the launch of the Green Grid because, for us as Africans, we see opportunity to contribute to world development and also to benefit thereof. With Green Grid energy superhighway, it is most likely that there will be energy sufficiency across the globe.”
