Chairman Senate Committee on Environment & Ecology, Senator Bukola Saraki has appealed to the United Nations Development Program for adequate funding to combat Climate Change in Nigeria.
According to a statement, Saraki represented at the United Nations framework convention on climate change otherwise known as Conference of Parties in Lima, Peru in Southern America by the Clerk of the Committee, FataiJimoh and his Senior Legislative Aide, Kingsley Amaku, said the areas requiring intervention in Nigeria include environmental sanitation, degradation, forestry, agriculture, power and other related climate change problems in the country.
Saraki promised to collaborate with his colleagues in the National Assembly to establish a UNDP/NASS multisectoral committee on climate change that will seek for additional funds to support the Federal government efforts on the endemic problem of climate change in the country.
The multi-sectoral committee, if established, Saraki said, would ensure judicious allocation and utilisation of any grant released to the country.
Saraki also charged the Federal Government to take the issue of climate change very seriously in order to promote a conducive and friendly environment so as to encourage local entrepreneurs and facilitate foreign investors.
He advised the UN to shift its paradigm from negotiations to full implementation 20 years after its inauguration.
He also tasked the Federal Government through the Hon Minister of Environment to provide enabling environment of hosting the 22nd edition of the conference in 2016.