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The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, is acceptable to big the 2025 International Climate Change Summit, focusing connected the bluish system and coastal resilience.
The summit, scheduled to beryllium held from Nov. 6 to 7 astatine the Lagos Continental Hotel, volition bring unneurotic planetary leaders, investors, clime scientists, and policymakers.
This was contained successful a connection signed by the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tokunbo Wahab, connected Sunday successful Lagos.
According to the statement, the acme has the theme: “Blue Economy, Green Money: Financing Africa’s Coastal Resilience and Ocean Innovation.”
It said the lawsuit would service arsenic a strategical level to accelerate enactment and concern successful Africa’s coastal and water economies up of the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
The connection said Lagos would stay committed to driving sustainable maturation done innovation and concern successful clime resilience.
“As Africa’s fastest-growing coastal city, Lagos stands astatine the frontline of some clime hazard and innovation.
“Our extremity is to unlock sustainable financing that protects our people, builds resilience, and drives economical maturation done the bluish economy,” it added.
The connection said Lagos had continued to show enactment successful subnational clime enactment by processing city-level clime concern mechanisms, including bluish bonds and nature-based coastal extortion projects.
It noted that the acme would supply an accidental to showcase ongoing and planned projects that beforehand biology innovation and sustainable livelihoods.
“The Lagos International Climate Change Summit 2025 is much than a conference; it is simply a declaration that African cities tin concern their ain future,” it said.
The connection said the 11th variation of the acme would besides absorption connected unlocking concern successful water energy, sustainable fisheries, mangrove restoration, and coastal infrastructure done greenish and blended finance.
Delegates expected astatine the lawsuit see representatives from the African Development Bank, the World Bank, and Eko Atlantic.
The station Sanwo-Olu to big planetary acme connected bluish economy, coastal resilience appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.
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