July 7, 2023 9:03 AMSalisu Dahiru, the director-general of the National Council on Climate Change , says carbon trading will help Nigeria mitigate the impact of climate change and meet its nationally determined contributions .
He said the recurring flooding across the country is proof that nobody can escape the climate crisis.“As far as Nigeria is concerned, the carbon trading scheme is an aspect of our national policy and also our national priority to put in place all the measures needed to address our mitigation challenges, more importantly our adaptation challenges in the country,” he said.
He added that the workshop was part of the foundational work to prepare Nigeria for participation in the emission trading scheme. “We will ensure that every opportunity for harvesting emission reduction certificates from ongoing activities in Nigeria are linked to our NDCs because that is what the Paris Agreement said, and that is what we intend to follow.