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The Federal Government has said that greenish economy, clime ambition, clime enactment and decarbonisation remained cardinal to Nigeria’s vigor modulation plan, insisting that the state was committed to achieving its nett zero target.
Senior Special Assistant to the President connected Climate Technology and Operations, Olamide Fagbuji, stated this successful Abuja astatine the maiden variation of the African SDG Film Festival, organised by Chanja Datti Recycling Company Ltd to people its 10th anniversary.
Fagbuji said the authorities recognises the standard of the challenges facing Nigeria successful its clime journey, but stressed that strategical connection and advocacy were captious to mobilising nationalist enactment and planetary partnership.
According to him, movie and storytelling supply an important instrumentality to signifier narratives astir Nigeria’s clime ambition from the position of its people.
“The greenish economy, the clime ambition, clime enactment and decarbonisation are cardinal components of Nigeria’s clime alteration vigor modulation plan. And there’s a request for very, precise strategical connection and advocacy to fto radical cognize some nationally and globally that Nigeria is really acceptable for clime action,” helium said.
He explained that the usage of movie would let young people, grassroots communities and sub-national actors to archer their ain stories astir the pathway to nett zero, adding that “a representation speaks a 1000 words.”
The Belgian Ambassador to Nigeria, Pieter Leenknegt, besides stressed the value of a conscionable transition, noting that Nigeria’s dependence connected fossil fuels made it imperative to usage net from the assemblage to powerfulness the displacement to renewables.
Leenknegt, who congratulated Chanja Datti connected its 10 years of existence, praised the institution for helping the Belgian Embassy successful Abuja follow circular system practices, including sorting and recycling waste.
He said the movie festival was timely, adding that it would assistance rise consciousness astir the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are 5 years distant from their 2030 deadline.
The Ambassador commended Chanja Datti for their efforts implicit the years.
“First of all, congratulations to Chanja Datti for their 10 years beingness and they’ve not conscionable been idling around, they’ve been doing highly utile work. We got successful interaction with them implicit an EU organized lawsuit connected circular economy. So we recovered retired that they were really capable to usher america and travel america successful our travel to circular system astatine our embassy ourselves present successful Abuja.
“And successful sorting trash and successful recycling definite parts of that garbage. So this is however successful 2024 we became the archetypal EU subordinate authorities embassy successful Nigeria that was sorting the garbage. So it implied besides a spot of a civilization alteration for portion of our workforce.
“Everybody virtually from the lawman ambassador to the garbage antheral oregon pistillate had to beryllium sensitized, made alert of those caller procedures. And it’s Chanja Datti that made it imaginable for us. So we’re precise happy, but that’s of people lone the extremity of the iceberg of what they are doing.
“And this archetypal movie festival connected SDGs that they organized present contiguous is besides wholly their inaugural and thing that we would truly similar to applaud. Because 5 years distant from the deadline for Agenda 2030, it’s precocious clip to support raising consciousness with colonisation connected the 17 SDGs, their targets and what we request to bash together,” the envoy stated.
Head of Strategy and Innovation astatine Chanja Datti, Gabriel Onyebuolise, said the festival was the imaginativeness of the firm’s laminitis and CEO, Olufunto Boroffice, to usage movie arsenic a instrumentality for consciousness and collaboration connected clime enactment and the SDGs.
“We deliberation astir people, we deliberation astir the planet, we deliberation astir partnerships earlier we adjacent look into profit. To thrust action, we request awareness, we request conversations and we request radical to thrust change. That alteration tin statesman with america coming unneurotic and utilising storytelling and movie arsenic a tool,” Onyebuolise said.
The festival featured films, animations and documentaries that addressed clime change, sustainable practices and sex equality, with participants drawn from the originative sector, improvement partners and the diplomatic community.
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