Nigeria: Govt to Submit National Plan On Climate Change to UN

2 July 2015

The Federal Government said on Thursday that its Intended Nationally-Determined Contributions (INDCs) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) would be submitted in September. Dr Samuel Adejuwon, the Director, Climate Change Department, Federal Ministry of Environment, made this known in an interview with newsmen in Abuja. Adejuwon said that Nigeria was taking its time to develop solid INDCs that would help address the impact of climate change without jeopardising its quest for development.

He said that the ministry would look at the country's economic and development interests while developing the INDCs. "The whole exercise (INDCs) will consider some priority sectors, look at the baseline and look at our needs too for development and see what we can put on the table that we are going to strive to mitigate in terms of Green House Gases.

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