By Faridat Salifu
Nigeria must seize the Baku to Belem climate finance roadmap as a springboard to transform its climate vulnerabilities into scalable green investments, according to a new national advisory.
The roadmap, launched after COP28 in Dubai, challenges countries to prepare more ambitious and finance-ready Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) ahead of COP30 in Brazil.
Nigeria’s Senior Special Assistant to the President on Climate Finance and Stakeholder Engagement, Ibrahim Shelleng, said the next six months would determine whether Nigeria emerges as a regional climate leader or remains behind.
Shelleng warned that climate change is already damaging the country’s economy, stressing that Nigeria risks losing up to 6.6 per cent of its GDP by 2050 if business-as-usual continues.
With desertification threatening the North, sea level rise in the South, and repeated flooding in central states, Shelleng called climate action not just urgent but economically strategic.
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