Cross River State governor, Mr Ben Ayade, is to lead a delegation of governors from Africa to the ongoing Climate Change Summit holding in Paris, France.
The African governors will meet with their counterparts from around the world and mayors under the auspices of the governors’ Climate and Forest, GCF, Task Force as sub-national leaders to share information on how to reduce Green House Gas emissions while creating economic opportunities at the same time.
Ayade is also the only African governor listed to speak at the summit by the United Nations Secretariat for Climate Change.
Mayor Gregor Robertson of Vancouver, Mayor Libby Schaaf of Oakland and Governor Manuel Gambini of Ucayali, Peru are also expected to deliver papers at the summit.Other governors listed to speak at the event are: Jerry Brown-California; Tiao Viana – Acre, Premier Christy Clark – British Columbia, Aristoteles Sandoval – Jalisco and Governor of Washington, Mr. Jay Inslee.
The three-day event, starting from December 7, “brings together governors and mayors, who are adopting ambitions GCF reduction targets and creating economic opportunities by doing so,” a statement by the Climate Change secretariat stated.
Ayade is a professor of Environmental Science, whose doctoral research work on Climate Change won him about 6.5million Japanese Yen from the Japanese Government.
The governor also invented the sewage treatment system, which is being used off-shore by oil producing companies in Nigeria.
The climate change secretariat describes Cross River as “The GCF pioneer member in Africa, with a rich history of working to preserve Nigeria’s tropical forest and an important platform for further engagement of GCF in Africa.”
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