The Minister of Environment, Balarabe Lawal has sought the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) technical assistance to fight insecurity and banditry in the forest.
This was disclosed during a courtesy visit by the new Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Ms. Elsie Attafuaw to the Minister’s office in Abuja.
The Minister congratulated the new UNDP Country representative on her new posting to ECOWAS/Nigeria and also solicited UNDP’s support in tackling climate change challenges and environmental sustainability.
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“Other areas of collaboration and partnership between the Ministry and UNDP include; pollution control, biodiversity, erosion and flood control and desert encroachment among others,” he said.
In her welcome address, the new UNDP Resident Representative, Attafuaw pledged to support Nigeria in the development of a roadmap on the environment sector.
Elsie reiterated that energy is a national security issue, and lamented that Nigerian and many African nations are not doing enough on energy, climate change, new innovations, plastic pollution, conservation and biodiversity.
She added that UNDP will support Nigeria in the development of its roadmap on environment and achieving its mandate of its 18 key priority deliverables of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda on environment.
The envoy stated that she feels very much at home being in Nigeria and promised to collaborate with the ministry on the climate change crisis.