APA – Lagos (Nigeria)
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Environment Iziaq Salako, gas said that Nigeria and Denmark will be partnering in the area of green energy and fight against depleting effect of climate change.
Receiving the Danish Minister of Development Cooperation and Global Climate Change Policy, Dan Jorgensen, at the ministry’s headquarters in Abuja on Monday, Salako said that Nigeria and Denmark’s green transition partnership would boost employment and mutual economic growth.
Salako disclosed that the ministry was working towards avoiding disasters like floods that could drive people into poverty.
“There is a need for food security; if the land is degraded, there cannot be food security; environmental actions to stop land degradation and poverty eradication disasters are taken seriously by the ministry,” he said, adding that climate change was a global issue that needed collaboration to resolve.
He assured that that the meeting with the Danish team would help Nigeria navigate its economy to be less dependent on oil to a cleaner energy without increasing energy poverty, or increasing hardship for the citizens.
According to him, the Ministry of Environment is working to ensure that as the country transits to green economy, data will be leveraged to create jobs for people while also mobilising green financing.
“Our ministry has been piloting the sovereign green bond, which we’re about to do the third tranche so those are features that require climate action to achieve, we also have 18 deliverables for the Federal Ministry of Environment, which are also very important to ensure that we need to achieve to achieve the agenda of the President and the current administration,” local media reports on Tuesday quoted the minister as saying.
The reports added that the Danish Minister of Development Cooperation and Global Climate Change Policy, on his part, promised to partner with Nigeria and Africa on the green economy.
“We are aware of the plight of Nigeria and Africa on climate change and the need to partner in the areas of climate mitigation, financing, and adaptation.
“We want to set an example that can inspire others; we will learn from each other to partner for a positive result at the upcoming COP 28,” he said.
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Nigeria, Denmark set for green energy partnership
