Nigeria seeks UN funds in fight against climate change
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Xinhua, November 20, 2011
Nigeria is working out a modality to access Adaptation Funds from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to reduce the adverse effects of global warming, an official said here on Friday.
The assistant director for special climate change Unit in the Ministry of Environment Yerima Tarfa told reporters in Abuja that the funds would be given to Nigeria on the condition that it produced concrete evidence of adaptation projects that could reduce climate change and improve the livelihoods of citizens.
Adaptation Funds are financial instruments under the UNFCCC that enables developing countries that are signatories to the Kyoto Protocol, to establish concrete adaptation projects and programs, to enable them to reduce the adverse effects of climate change.
Tarfa said Nigeria received the information on how to access the funds last year after which it set up a technical steering committee to develop some adaptation projects to enable it to benefit.
He urged the committee to create awareness on the funds so that stakeholders could come up with concrete plans that could be supported.
Tarfa, however, promised that the funds would be judiciously used.
