{"id":6618,"date":"2023-12-12T19:02:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T19:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigeria-africa-need-synergy-for-new-green-economy-tinubu\/"},"modified":"2023-12-12T19:02:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T19:02:40","slug":"nigeria-africa-need-synergy-for-new-green-economy-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigeria-africa-need-synergy-for-new-green-economy-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria, Africa need synergy for new green economy \u2013 Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has said that African countries would need partnership and a cooperative approach for a new green economy.<\/p>\n<p>In a CNN Op-Ed piece, he stated that during the COP28 World Climate Action Summit in Dubai, UAE, he worried about security concerns, human displacement, environmental deterioration, and other side effects of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu stated that Nigeria has faced significant hurdles, including the COVID-19 pandemic, short-term challenges from economic changes, and ongoing currency unification.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these hurdles, he said, the country remained committed to its determination to rebuild a stronger, cleaner economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo uphold our legally binding commitment to a cleaner world, Nigeria launched the Nigerian Carbon Market Initiative at COP28 by joining the African Carbon Market Initiative,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Reiterating his stance on the injustice in the current economic system, the president said that emerging countries bear the brunt of the consequences despite contributing minimally to the problem.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that African countries cannot tackle it alone and that \u201ca fair and cooperative approach is required.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also stated that too many developed countries have resisted doing what they should for far too long.<\/p>\n<p>President Tinubu said that Nigeria is vigorously pursuing the use of the country\u2019s wind and solar resources, but he added that the move away from fossil fuels, which are Nigeria\u2019s economic mainstay, will be difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu also stated that the European Union\u2019s Global Gateway programme and the United States Government\u2019s Build Back Better World initiative are possible resources for Nigeria\u2019s efforts towards cleaner energy.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria, Africa need synergy for new green economy \u2013 Tinubu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu has said that African countries would need partnership and a cooperative approach for a new green economy.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,466],"tags":[180,26],"class_list":["post-6618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tinubu","tag-news","tag-tinubu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}