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[s]PRESIDENT BUHARI TO ATTEND CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE IN GLASGOW; PARTICIPATE IN PARIS PEACE SUMMIT

President Muhammadu Buhari will Sunday, October 31 depart Abuja for Glasgow, Scotland to attend the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

The President is scheduled to deliver his national statement at the High-Level segment for Heads of State and Government at the conference on Tuesday, November 2.

President Buhari’s address is expected to highlight Nigeria’s key priorities and action to tackle climate change as well as progress on the country’s transition to low carbon economy, consistent with achieving the Paris Climate Agreement.

The conference, hosted by the United Kingdom in partnership with Italy, will bring parties together to help accelerate action towards the Paris Agreement as well as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Given Nigeria’s leading role in taking climate action and as a signatory to the Paris Agreement, COP 26 will afford a unique opportunity for the Nigerian delegation to work with other parties to make progress on the main goals of the conference including securing global net zero by mid-century and keeping 1.5C within reach; adapting to protect communities and natural habitats as well as mobilising the much needed finances to meet the set targets.

In Glasgow, President Buhari will participate in some side-line events hosted by US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron.

The President will be accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, Minister of State, Environment, Sharon Ikeazor, National Security Adviser, Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno (Rtd) and Director-General, National Intelligence Agency, Amb. Ahmed Rufai Abubakar.

President Buhari will thereafter travel to Paris, France on an official visit to reciprocate an earlier one to Nigeria by the French President, Emmanuel Macron, and also attend the Paris Peace forum 2021, the fourth edition to be hosted by the French President.

It will have Heads of State and Government and CEOs of major multinationals, as well as several civil society actors, gathering to advance concrete solutions to the enormous challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and to improve global governance in times of COVID-19.

The Summit will focus on spurring a more solid and inclusive recovery by addressing the various gaps in global governance, offering initiatives to better tend to the global commons, and putting forward new principles of action for the post-COVID world.

While the President is in Paris, the Nigerian government will organize the Nigeria-Paris Forum. The event is expected to pull a crowd of Nigerian and French investors, government and business leaders, diplomats and the media in the hope of showcasing opportunities on both sides as well as bringing enlightenment to bear on the prevailing security, economic and investment climate in Nigeria.

President Buhari is expected back in the country after the engagements.

Garba Shehu
Senior Special Assistant to the President
(Media & Publicity)
October 31, 2021[/s]

jackcanfield:
na wa you people should divide the job o.... the President still looking stress and you are sending him on another trip... anyway how can i get a diplomatic passport so i can be a casual observer of the Presidents trips, make I write small book " THE BUHARI'S YEARS".. Safe Journey sha...you people at the presidency should not kill somebody's father o.

dasparrow:
Nigerians are waiting for Buhari in Glasgow. They will embarrass him there. He cannot run away. What does he know about climate change anyway? Nigeria is in disarray yet he keeps traveling like nothing is going on. Such a shame.

Leverage2021:
Climate change when the fool is exploring for crude oil in Chad basin

You think the west are fools

adamsmith914:
Nigeria is exploring for crude oil & you call we The Citizens Fools, is President Buhari The Federal Republic of Nigeria? Was it President Buhari’s father that got independence for Nigeria like Kenyatta of Kenya? Has he been the President of Nigeria since you were born? do you know any better than Nigerians? Na the west invite President Buhari to climate change summit, go & check if The President of your country Paul Biya was invited.

iamDrRhymes:
I respect the fact that Buhari does not discriminate politically. Imagine, he is traveling with two PDP Governors. This is inclusiveness.

AmTruth:
Save Journey Our President Buhari and Excellencies the Governors.
God bless Nigeria!!!

Iko5000:
You are a real nut case .

emeka1759:
Yeye president

Oya........ sip wine and cool body......

FLYFIRE:
As if he knows what they will discuss there.

Jonah507:
Wetin him go talk for the meeting sef ?

Dozie32:
What does he know he's gonna do there?
Clown