The government and stakeholders have been charged to take urgent steps at tackling challenges and dangers posed by climate change. The charge was made by participants in their various submissions at a workshop tagged, “The Rule of Law and Climate Justice” organised by the Attorney General Alliance Africa (AGA-Africa) Programme, in collaboration with the Nigeria Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) and the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) in Abuja. Participants also harped on need for all Nigerians to begin to act responsibly towards the environment.
In his remarks, Director General (DG) of NIALS, Professor Muhammed Ladan, who identified oil and gas, mining and automobile industries as major culprit in the emission of carbon climate change in the country, called on government, including all regulatory agencies, to align themselves with the Paris Agreement 2015 and the national laws…
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