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Impact Of Climate Change In Nigeria

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Background.

Nigeria’s vast landmass which is useful for farming and grazing of livestock is threatened by the emerging impact of climate change such as, draught and desertification. These two are principally caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emission. Climate change presents a threat to growth and social development. For example the impacts of climate change include; scarcity of water, conflicts, weather related disasters which typically results in the displacement of populations and poverty. For this reason, an International law instrument established the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) , to deal with the menace of climate change. Incidentally Nigeria is a signatory to the UNFCCC, and as part of its policy measures, …show more content…

While most scholars maintained that the CDM has failed to bring about real and additional GHG emission reductions in Nigeria (Olsen 2007). Others highlighted certain factors that are responsible for poor implementation of the CDM in Nigeria. For example, Blevin (2011) is of the opinion that the geographical distribution of the CDM is not balanced, in that developing countries such as Nigeria are underrepresented. Ndulu (2002) maintained that poor governance and misguided policies on the side of host countries including Nigeria have been identified as a challenge to the CDM implementation. For this reason, Clark (2002) and Bansal (2005) convincingly proposed that improved governance and incorporating climate change mitigating strategies into mainstream state policies, the availability of financial and technological assistance from foreign investors would definitely ameliorate the shortcoming facing the CDM in …show more content…

Likewise Wolfgang et al (2009) suggested that the CDM would achieve its twin purpose of climate change mitigation and SD through capacity building, provision of infrastructure and the transfer of low carbon technologies.
Research question

This research will investigate how International legal framework (UNFCCC) can help developing countries (such as Nigeria) develop and finance climate change mitigation policies and measures. The research questions would be;
1. Are International law instruments for mitigating GHG emission particularly the CDM, INDCs and NAMAs effective in mitigating climate change, and whether the incoming SDGs would be effective in alleviating poverty and conserving bio diversity in Nigeria?

2. What are the institutional modalities/tools that can be employed in order to enhance existing legal and policy based instruments that will compensate for loss caused by the impacts of climate change in

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