The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), said Nigeria raised over N30bn to finance its climate change adaptation efforts by issuing two sovereign green bonds.
He also urged the most vulnerable countries to emulate Nigeria’s homegrown resource mobilisation saying that it is “likely to break the yoke of difficulties in accessing funds from developed countries’ financial institutions.”
According to a statement signed by the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, Buhari made this point when he spoke at a roundtable addressing climate change and supporting the environment at the UN Conference on LDCs in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday.
The statement is titled ‘Climate Financing: emulate Nigeria green bonds, President Buhari tells LDCs.’
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The President who was represented by the Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abdullahi, argued that ‘‘Domestic resource mobilisation is likely to break the yoke of difficulties in accessing funds from developed countries’ financial institutions, like Nigeria’s issuance of two Sovereign Green Bonds that raised over N30billion.
‘‘LDCs and Developing Countries must take a serious stand on the Cummings-Montreal resolutions on a new funding mechanism that is flexible, accessible and utilizable.”
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He pledged that Nigeria would use its position as host of the headquarters of the Sahel Climate Fund to ensure that members access climate finance at fairer and reasonable conditions.
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