The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari is expected to depart for Marrakesh, Morocco today at 4:00pm to join other world leaders for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change also known as COP-22, which is scheduled to hold from 14th to 16th, November, 2016.

President Buhari will be participating in the opening plenary and is expected to deliver an address during the high level segment of COP 22 which will present Nigeria’s unwavering commitment to implementing the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and policy actions aimed at tackling climate change through environmental sustainable efforts, among other pertinent issues. The President will also use the occasion of his speech to organise international support for the clean-up of Ogoniland in the Niger Delta and the revival of the Lake Chad Basin.

While in Marrakech, the President is also scheduled to attend the Africa Day Commemoration at COP 22 with the theme, “Moving from Commitments to Action with Intended Nationally Determined Contributions and African Renewable Energy Initiative.” He will also attend the Summit of African Heads of State on the side-lines of the Climate Change conference.

COP 22, which will be attended by representatives from 197 countries including world leaders, environment ministers, government officials as well as a wide range of representatives from civil society and the private sector, is the first meeting of State Parties since the entry into force of the landmark Paris Agreement on November 4, 2016.

It would be recalled that President Buhari signed the Paris Agreement on September 22, 2016 at the margins of the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The legally binding international Agreement on climate change, among others, addresses issues of global warming, including its impact on food security and agriculture.

Buoyed by that commitment, the Nigerian delegation is optimistic that COP22 will provide a platform to promote and enhance delivery of the purpose-driven environmental sustainable agenda of the Federal Government.

The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari is expected to depart for Marrakesh, Morocco today at 4:00pm to join other world leaders for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change also known as COP-22, which is scheduled to hold from 14th to 16th, November, 2016.

President Buhari will be participating in the opening plenary and is expected to deliver an address during the high level segment of COP 22 which will present Nigeria’s unwavering commitment to implementing the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and policy actions aimed at tackling climate change through environmental sustainable efforts, among other pertinent issues. The President will also use the occasion of his speech to organise international support for the clean-up of Ogoniland in the Niger Delta and the revival of the Lake Chad Basin.

While in Marrakesh, the President is also scheduled to attend the Africa Day Commemoration at COP 22 with the theme, “Moving from Commitments to Action with Intended Nationally Determined Contributions and African Renewable Energy Initiative.” He will also attend the Summit of African Heads of State on the side-lines of the Climate Change conference.

COP 22, which will be attended by representatives from 197 countries including world leaders, environment ministers, government officials as well as a wide range of representatives from civil society and the private sector, is the first meeting of State Parties since the entry into force of the landmark Paris Agreement on November 4, 2016.

It would be recalled that President Buhari signed the Paris Agreement on September 22, 2016 at the margins of the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The legally binding international Agreement on climate change, among others, addresses issues of global warming, including its impact on food security and agriculture.

Encouraged by that commitment, the Nigerian delegation is optimistic that COP22 will provide a platform to promote and enhance delivery of the purpose-driven environmental sustainable agenda of the Federal Government.