President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the
Instrument of Ratification of the Paris
Agreement on Climate Change.
The Presidency announced the big
development on its official Twitter handle on
Tuesday, March 28.
It also posted pictures of President Buhari
signing the ratification documents in his office
in the Presidential Villa at Aso Rock in the
Federal Capital Territory in Abuja.
myloadedbase gathered that the Paris
Agreement is an agreement within the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC) and deals with greenhouse
gases emissions mitigation, adaptation and
finance starting in the year 2020.
According to Wikipedia, the agreement was
negotiated by representatives of 195 countries
at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the
UNFCCC in Paris and adopted by consensus
on 12 December 2015.
President Buhari signs Nigeria into Paris
Agreement on climate change
With the agreement, Nigeria now has to
reduce practices within the country that
promote deteriorating of the environment
The agreement was opened for signing on
April 22, 2016 at a ceremony in New York and
went into effect on November 4, 2016.
Naijaloaded further gathered that Nigeria as
now joined the 194 UNFCCC members that
have signed the treaty and the around 141
that have ratified it as at March 2017.
Recall that the Presidency said Buhari would,
during his stay in the United States for the
71st UN General Assembly, sign the Paris
Treaty on Climate.
This was disclosed by Geoffrey Onyeama,
Nigeria’s minister of foreign affairs, during a
news conference in New York ahead of the
president’s visit.
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