He said climate change poses an existential threat to Nigeria, thus the need for comprehensive, sustainable, and innovative solutions.
However, he expressed the federal government’s commitment to addressing climate change and promoting sustainable climate finance, and working towards the Nationally Determined Contributions and the global climate goals set out in the Paris Agreement. “It is on this basis that the theme of this year’s conference tagged Creating a Sustainable Climate Finance for Nigeria was carefully decided as it not only affirms the threats of climate change to our collective survival but also reiterates the need for urgent action to curtail what experts have referred to as an existential crisis.”