President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Climate Change Bill into law
This was disclosed in a statement issued by the senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Garba Shehu.
Garba said Buhari assented to the bill on Thursday in Abuja.
The national assembly had earlier passed the climate change bill after passing the second and third readings.
The bill was sent to the president for his assent two weeks before COP 26- United Nations climate change conference of parties in Glasgow , Scotland.
The Bill was introduced in 2018 by the eighth assembly but was declined by the president in 2019. However , the lawmakers revisited the bill and addressed the  âcontentious clausesâ cited by the president, thereby prompting its current passage into law.
According to Shehu, the signing of the bill into law would enable the âmainstreaming of climate change actions and the establishment of a National Council on Climate Changeâ.
âIt also paves the way for environmental and economic accounting and a push for a net zero emission deadline plan in the country,â he said.
The signing of the bill is coming five days after the end of COP 26 in Glasgow. At the conference, the president had pledged that by 2060, Nigeria would reach net-zero- a process that is said to be cut of emission by the fossil fuel corporations.
Civil society and environmental activists have said the net-zero is a false solution to combat climate change and proposing sustainable solutions which they have tagged real solutions.
The president also signed into law the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (Amendment) Act.
