Nigerian House to Conclude Legal Framework on Climate Change
- Adedayo Akinwale
- Feb 24, 2017
- 1 min read
The House of Representatives has revealed that it was presently concluding a legal framework on climate change action which would serve as guide as the country strives to reduce carbon emissions by 30% by 2030.
It however lamented that there were discordant tunes among the implementing agencies which it said might jeopardise the attainment of reducing greenhouse emissions by 2030.
The Chairman, House Committee on Climate Change, Hon. Sam Onuigbo disclosed this in Abuja at the Climate Change Knowledge Immersion and Workshop- Parliamentarians, organised by World Bank Group in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment.
He said government was doing enough to tackle the issue of climate change according to the resources available to it but stressed that there was need for awareness, deepening and broadening of the knowledge and creating consciousness for people to know what the dangers were.
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