Buhari to sign Paris agreement on climate change at UN general assembly

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Buhari to sign Paris agreement on climate change at UN general assembly

President Muhammadu Buhari, will as part of his participation in the 71st United Nations General Assembly, sign the Paris Treaty on Climate Climate, Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, disclosed yesterday at a news conference in New York.
He said world leaders, including President Barrack Obama of America and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, had already signed the Treaty.A statement signed by the spokesman for the Nigerian Mission to the UN, Mr Akinremi Bolaji, and released in Abuja on Saturday, noted that 195 countries adopted the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate deal at the Paris climate conference (COP21) in December 2015.

The agreement sets out a global action plan to put the world on track to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C. The agreement is due to enter into force in 2020.

Onyeama said that top on Nigerian UN agenda during the General Assembly was to engage African Union and other countries to work towards the reform of the United Nations.
He said that the leaders would also be engaged to be more democratic and responsive to the needs of the world.
“In addition to the wave of change, Nigeria will like to propose to the UN body to create an agency dedicated for the youth,” Onyeama said.The minister assured the international community that Nigeria would support a new UN Secretary-General that would be development and Africa-friendly, as well as, sympathetic to the course of Nigeria.

On investment, power and insecurity in Nigeria, he said that the Federal Government had established various security mechanisms to create attractive investment environment for would-be investors.

“With the fall in oil price, Nigeria is looking into diversification of its economy towards agriculture and solid minerals.“It is expected that there will be a lot of investment opportunity for foreign investors during the US-Africa Business Forum, scheduled to take place next week in New York.

“Nigeria has been invited as one of the focal countries whose economy search light is beamed on,” he said.He also said that Nigeria would host a high-level side event on Climate Change, to showcase its efforts in the Ogoni clean-up.This event, according to him, will come up after the president has signed the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.