By Rosemary Ogbonna 

The Minister of Environment, Balarabe Abbas Lawal, has disclosed that Climate Change impacts are on the rise daily with unprecedented and extreme weather conditions being experienced around the world, adding that urgent solutions are required before it gets out of hand resulting in uncontrollable loss of livelihoods and biodiversity.

The Minister made this known at the 3-day “Peer Learning Forum on National Adaptation Plan Process in Conflicts Affecting Countries” held recently in Abuja, Nigeria.

The Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Environment, Salihu Aminu Usman, who represented the Minister revealed that Nigeria made a commitment to reduce Green House Gas emissions, by 47 per cent with international support (conditional). Although NDCs focused more on mitigation. And it has also made provisions for adaptation strategies by aligning with Nigeria’s NAP, which is in its final stage of completion having been validated, particularly for developing countries that are worst hit by these climate change impacts, adding that adapting to climate change means taking action to prepare for and adjust to both the current effects of climate change and the predicted impacts in the future.

The three-day forum was co-hosted by the Federal Ministry of Environment and the NAP Global Network. It brings together representatives from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Liberia, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan, and other conflict-affected nations.