By Kayode Araba
Thus as Nigeria, Liberia collaborates to mitigate the effects of climate change, The Nigerian National Assembly leadership has called on the Africa Leader’s on focus on how to curtails climate change induced, reverting that as some nations are pulling out the Paris Climate Agreement
However, this was made known in a meeting as the Chairman Senate Committee on Ecology and Climate Change, Senator Henry Seriake Dickson, representing Bayelsa West Senatorial District received a group of Parliamentarian and environmentalists from the Republic of Liberia on Thursday in Abuja.
Thus Sen. Dickson commended the team for the collaboration between the executive agencies that are the frontier of protecting forests and natural resources and also expanding the climate agenda in Africa.
The Chairman emphasized on the constraints, the challenges, adding this collaboration between the executive agencies that are the frontier of protecting forests and natural resources and also expanding the climate agenda in Africa.
Sen Dickson noted that not coming for these interactive visits to Nigeria alone on the part of the executive, but they also came along with their parliamentarians. And that is to be commended, so that parliamentarians need to know what your various agencies are doing, the constraints, the challenges, the gains as well.
Sen.Diskson alluded to the fact that African nations have to put on their thinking caps and see how we can respond appropriately, particularly at a time that some leading nations are becoming increasingly isolationist. It means that political leadership of African nations must, more than any other time before, try to come together to see how we can find an African solution to some of these challenges, and take even common positions, not only at national levels, but also at sub-regional levels, such as what you are doing, and then also be prepared to engage on the global arena.
Thereafter, the Delegation proceeded to the House of Representatives for a similar collaborative session with its Committee on Ecology and Climate Change.
