Introduction: Nigeria's Response To the Climate Change Conundrum
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2020-03
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ORADI
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W
ITH rising greenhouse gas
emissions, climate change is
occurring at rates much faster than
anticipated and its effects are being clearly
felt worldwide.
Nigeria, as a developing country with a
population of about 180 million, has been
adversely impacted by climate change due
to obvious vulnerability and low coping
capability. Consequently, on December 12,
2015, during a United Nations-sponsored
meeting in Paris, COP21, dubbed 'Paris
Agreement', Nigeria joined 194 other
countries to make a historic pledge to
reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
To demonstrate Nigeria's commitment to the pledge, on March 28, 2017
President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Instrument of Ratification of the
Paris Agreement on Climate Change, which was approved by the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on May 16,
2017. The Paris Agreement entered into force on June 15, 2017.
Ranked amongst the top 25 Green-House Gas (GHG) Emitting Countries,
Nigeria is required to mobilize its citizens and other stakeholders for the
effective implementation of measures to reach the target of a 20 percent
unconditional reduction in green-house gas emissions by 2030, and to
implement policies that will enable the country to reach the goal of 100
percent renewable energy by 2050.
In this edition of the SDGs Monitor, we appraise Nigeria's
implementation of goal number 13 of the United Nations' Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs), which is Climate Action (SDG13). Our
assessment of Nigeria's efforts to attain the targets of SDG13 shows that
the country's emission reduction strategy focuses on such key sectors as
Energy, Oil and Gas, Agriculture and Land Use, Power, and Transport.
However, based on the fact that the 2016 Climate Change Vulnerability
Index (CCVI) classifies Nigeria as one of the ten countries in the world
which are most vulnerable to climate change, the country is not on track
with respect to achieving SDG 13.
The analysis by our consultant, Daniel A. Omoweh, a Professor of
International Relations at Western Delta University, Oghara and former
Associate Research Professor at the Nigerian Institute of International
Affairs, reveals that the Nigerian government has approached the discourse
on climate change with its usual approach, namely limiting consideration of
such a critical development issue to ministries and parastatals. The study
recommends that since climate change is about the environment, which is
an international public good, it requires input from the people, civil society,
the private sector and the media to put Nigeria on the path to attaining SDG
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Nigeria's Response To the Climate, Change Conundrum, Climate Action in Nigeria, The Uninhabitable Earth, Losing Earth
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ORADI, SDGs (2019). Introduction: An Appraisal of Nigeria's Implementation of the “Quality Education” Goal