Buhari calls for Urgent actions on Climate Change.

President Muhammadu Buhari, has called for urgent actions particularly developed countries, to tackle the effects of climate change in Africa.

Buhari, who was represented by, Minister of Environment Mohammed Abdullahi, made the call yesterday in Egypt, on the sidelines of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27.

He said this year, a lot of countries have witnessed disastrous extreme weather events from terrifying wildfires in the United States, to unprecedented heat waves in India, Pakistan, and Europe, to intense floods in Nigeria.

Buhari emphasized that developing nations, particularly in Africa who, despite contributing the least to both historical and current emissions, are facing climate impacts to a unequal degree and urged countries especially those responsible for the emissions that cause climate change to make urgent and decisive climate action to address these challenges.