With less than a month to the
26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) Summit, the President/CEO, Ecologists Integrated Services Limited, Dr. Paul Abolo has assured of an enhanced narrative on climate change in Nigeria.
Abolo while speaking in Abuja on Wednesday at the Nigeria Pre-COP26 Summit explained that there is an existing positive narrative and engagement on climate change especially for the private sector, Civil Society Organizations and subnational entities which the COP26 Summit set to enhance.
It would be recall that the COP26 Summit was scheduled to hold in November last year but was shifted to this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the summit will now take place in Glasgow, Scotland by 1st-12th, November 2021.
Meanwhile, Abolo stated that Nigeria PRE-COP26 Summit is a 2 day event which is being held following the main event itself
aim at giving Nigeria time to prepare and deliver on negotiations mandates on Climate Change.
“The subnational entities will also join us in this event, the day 2 is a day for their presentation on what they intend to present at COP26”.
He added that the Nigerian COP26 Summit is the first of its kind because it is purely private sector driven with the private sectors, NGOs and CSOs coming together to access preparation for COP26 and to make a reassessment if there is need to make an adjustment for the ultimate COP26 event.
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FCT Coordinator, Women in Renewable Energy (WIREA), Mrs Oluwatoyin Taylor call for more advocacy on renewable energy especially for women.
Taylor explained that lots of the renewable energy project require a lot of engineering work which are not really feminine or gender friendly but encouraged women to participate in every area.
She noted that women play a major role because the products are used by them and if they do not use it properly, there will be lots of pollution.
“So lots of training and advocacy has to go into this because if they do not use it well, they will go back to square one, but women are very important in areas of logistics, planning and mostly men go to field but we now have women going to the field”.
In her opinion on COP26, she said “there is going to be lots of advocacy, we are going to do lots of advocacy and job opportunities, we want women in different areas of renewable energy like the carbon area, logistics and planning”.
“We want more of them taking advantage of the job creation that will come out of this COP26”. She added.