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Ahead Conference of Parties (COP22) for United Nation’s on climate change slated for Morocco in November, 20 countries from 197 that entered into the agreement in Paris in 2015 have ratified the agreement.
However, Nigeria, a major party in carbon emission, is completely absent.
A source at the ministry of environment, who preferred not to be mentioned, said Nigeria realise the need to join the rest of the world in addressing issue of carbon emission, but would want to see countries that have benefited more from carbon emission raise their commitment.
Like Nigeria, many countries are looking to China and US to ratify the agreement and raise their commitment to reduce carbon emission.
Parties in the agreement will have the opportunity to benefit in an annual climate change funding of $100 billion from 2020, with Nigeria likely to miss out unless it eventually joins the parties’ agreement.
For this agreement to become effective, it will require that total of 55 percent global greenhouse emission ratify the agreement, and with the number of (20) countries so far, it is only 0.4 percent.
At COP 21 in Paris, Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) reached a landmark agreement to combat climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future. The Paris Agreement builds upon the Convention and – for the first time – brings all nations into a common cause to undertake take ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, with enhanced support to assist developing countries to do so.
The Paris Agreement’s central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Additionally, the agreement aims to strengthen the ability of countries to deal with the impacts of climate change. To reach these ambitious goals, appropriate financial flows, a new technology framework and an enhanced capacity building framework will be put in place, thus supporting action by developing countries and the most vulnerable countries, in line with their own national objectives. The Agreement also provides for enhanced transparency of action and support through a more robust transparency framework.
The Paris Agreement requires all Parties to put forward their best efforts through “nationally determined contributions” (NDCs) and to strengthen these efforts in the years ahead. This includes requirements that all Parties report regularly on their emissions and on their implementation efforts. There will also be a global stock take every 5 years to assess the collective progress towards achieving the purpose of the agreement and to inform further individual actions by Parties.
The Paris Agreement was adopted on 12 December 2015 at the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Paris from 30 November to 13 December 2015. In accordance with its article 20, the Agreement shall be open for signature at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 22 April 2016 until 21 April 2017 by States and regional economic integration organizations that are Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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