Impressions from Nigeria’s outing at UNEA 6 and Tinubu’s delegation

The Nation Newspaper Impressions from Nigeria's outing at UNEA 6 and Tinubu's delegation

The United Nations Environment Assembly is the world’s highest-level environmental decision-making body, with a universal membership of all 193 UN Member States. It was created in 2012 due to decades of international efforts ­initiated at the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972, aimed at creating an effective system of international environmental governance.

The delegation of Nigeria was led by the Minister of State for Environment, Dr. Iziaq Adekunle Salako, who appears to be carving a niche as the international environmental ambassador in Tinubu’s administration. This writer was able to see the report on Nigeria’s participation at the assembly which clearly showed an intensive and strategic high-level engagement showcasing the leadership position of Nigeria in the African continent, especially in the ECOWAS subregion.

It is generally agreed that to address biodiversity loss, there is a need to increase investment in nature protection by between 500 and 900 billion USD per year. For this reason, a commitment was made at COP15, in Montreal, to deliver at least 20 billion USD per year in international biodiversity finance to developing countries by 2025, and at least USD 30 billion a year by 2030. Unfortunately, the world is currently completely off track to achieving this commitment.

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