The President, Muhammadu Buhari has requested the inclusion of Nigeria in the G7’s Climate Partnerships List for the co-creation of a Just Energy Transition Partnership.

According to him, this will enable the country’s Energy Transition Plan to achieve its set target by 2060.

The plan requires 410 billion dollar, which translates to an additional 10 billion dollars in annual spending.

Buhari also demanded urgent and decisive climate action from the countries that are most responsible for the emissions that cause climate change.

He said this on Monday on the sidelines of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Egypt, dubbed COP27.

Represented by the Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abdullahi, the President stated that actions concerning climate change taken today and over the next few decades would determine the fate of future generations and the planet.

The President lamented that Africa, which had contributed the least to both historical and current emissions, was facing climate impacts to a disproportionate degree.

Buhari stated that while climate change was getting focused on, there was the need to consider the energy poverty in Africa.