INTERVIEW: What Nigeria is doing to fulfil climate pledges — Climate Council Chief

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'Only three countries have climate change specific legislation in Africa of which Nigeria is one,' Salisu Dahiru, DG of the NCCC.

Mr Dahiru during an interview with PREMIUM TIMES on the sideline in Nairobi as he speaks on what Nigeria is doing to fulfill its climate change pledges.Salisu Dahiru, director-general of Nigeria’s Council on Climate Change , spoke with PREMIUM TIMES correspondent, Abdulkareem Mojeed on the sideline of the inaugural Africa Climate Summit and Africa Climate Week , held from 4 to 6 September in Nairobi, Kenya.

The potential and journey are already looking good; we have sown the seeds and we are in the process of harvesting as a benefit. What we are doing at the summit and also at the climate change week is to further deepen the engagement that we are having with various financial organisations, development partners and with various ministries. We have had bilaterals with the delegation from the Netherlands and from the Ban Ki Moon Group, the list is endless.

PT: Can you briefly tell us where we are with the plans of our carbon trading, carbon taxing models and all of that?: For the carbon trading, what we have done so far is, after the commencement of the project in August last year, we have gone ahead to identify the key building blocks, which are three. The first one is the establishment of the registry, the second is the establishment of the exchange and the third is the establishment of validation processes.

 

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