Federal Govt Pledges To Scale Up Climate Change Adaptation

Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has announced measures being put in place to solve extreme climate change outcomes in Nigeria.

Farouq made this known at a side event at Cop 27 on Wednesday, held in Sharm El Shiek Egypt where world stakeholders are meeting to proffer solutions to mitigate extreme climate changes.

The 2022 United Nations Climate Change conference, more commonly referred to as conference of the parties of the UNFCCC, or COP27, is the 27th United Nations Climate Change conference and is being held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.

Farouq said that climate change-induced hydro-meteorological events were causing devastating humanitarian crises in Nigeria hence the urgent need to scale up climate change adaptation efforts.

“The Nigerian government through the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development is scaling up climate change adaptation efforts in Nigeria to build community resilience and adaptation practices to mitigate and reduce the consequence of climate change.

“The reason we are here is to harness and discuss good practices, programs and strategies that other countries are using to reduce vulnerabilities of Climate change. We want to know how to build adaptive capacities and resilience in line with national and international policies and commitments in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.

“Specifically, we want to know how to identify and map out climate change risks better and generate political will to implement and finance national adaptation projects, as we harmonize inputs and launch a people-centered climate change adaptation in coordination with key partners like the Ministry of Environment and other relevant MDAs.

“We will work with the Nigerian national adaptation plan which seeks to reduce vulnerability of communities to the impacts of climate change by building adaptive capacity and resilience. The Plan also advocates the integration of climate change adaptation into relevant new and existing policies, programs and activities as well as in development planning processes and strategies”, the minister said.