World Bank Begins Climate Change Assessment for Nigeria
ngrclimatereports February 10th, 2010
World Bank
The World Bank is to come up with a country-wide support plan to address Nigeria’s alternative energy needs in the immediate and medium term covering 2010-2013.
A workshop organized by the bank today in Abuja is to come up with a comprehensive renewable need for sectors and for the country as a whole. The meeting is a post Copenhagen action and a follow up to a meeting a World Bank team held with Environment Minister John Odey last week.
Executive Director of Centre for Investment, Sustainable Development, Management and Environment, Prince Lekan Fadina, said the workshop was timely because low carbon energy development, especially energy efficiency, for the country depended on such initiative. Fadina, who was negotiator and coordinator of Nigeria’s private sector group at Copenhagen, added that there was capacity gap in the knowledge and skills of Nigerian public and private sector players to address threats and opportunities presented by climate change and that the workshop is expected to address it.
-Etim Imisim
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