Office of the Special Presidential Envoy on Climate Action, SPEC, and the leadership of three technical teams within the World Economic Forum’s Centre of Nature and Climate, as well as the Forum’s Centre for Energy and Materials have agreed to advance new opportunities through enhanced collaboration.
The agreement was struck during a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after the SPEC leader, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, made a presentation of President Tinubu’s Green Industrial Vision with further insight into the wide-ranging activities presently being carried out in Nigeria’s Climate Action Sector.
Subsequently, the leadership of the Forum’s Global Plastic Action Partnership, GPAP, briefed Chief Ngelale on the next stage of GPAP’s partnership with Nigeria, where data has shown that the country has assumed the top position in Africa in responsiveness to the plastic waste crisis across multiple criteria of assessment.
He assured the GPAP leadership that Nigeria would re-double her efforts and create further incentives for Nigerian industries to eschew poor plastic waste management practices.
“Nigeria will incentivize the industry of plastic waste collection and advanced recycling within the context of a dedicated waste-to-energy district of the Evergreen City, where wealth will be generated from the circular economic ecosystem that plastic waste pollution can eventually power.
“There are many reasons to be excited about the ongoing handshake between Nigeria and the rest of the world on existential matters of climate action and the resulting green economic opportunities being presented. The latest interactions once again reminded me of all that can be achieved when we strive to work collaboratively with others — to learn, to listen, to share, and to execute in synergy”, Chief Ngelale pointed out.
Report By Bello Wakili
