Nigeria’s Vice President, Kashim Shettima, has charged world leaders to move beyond pledging to performance, and from dialogue to taking reasonable action in tackling climate change and its attendant natural disasters that have claimed innocent lives and rendered many homeless across the globe.
“Let COP30 be remembered as the moment when the world moved from pledges to performance, from ambition to action, and from dialogue to delivery,” he declared.
Speaking on Thursday during the Leaders’ Climate Summit at the ongoing 30th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP 30), in Belém, Brazil, the vice president, who is representing President Bola Tinubu, reaffirmed Nigeria’s global climate leadership with a commitment to achieving an emission reduction target of 32% by 2035.
Noting that this followed the unveiling of the National Carbon Market Framework and Climate Change Fund, he explained that the new initiatives form the core of Nigeria’s climate finance architecture designed to attract billions
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