Nigeria’s Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola has said that the federal government remains committed to the Paris Agreement aimed at mitigating the impact of climate change.
Fashola made this known when the Faculty members and participants of the Executive Intelligence Management (EIMC) Course 15 of the National Institute for Security Studies paid him a courtesy visit in his office.
Speaking on the theme of course 15 of the institute, “Global Climate Challenges, Prospects and Priorities for Economic Development and Conflicts Resolutions in Africa,” Fashiola said that the Management have a role to play both in terms of policy and delivery.
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The minister who commended the institute for the choice of the theme which he said places emphasis not only on human capital development but on national development, said that In the housing sector, for instance, the Ministry has developed a national building code for effective building in terms of sizes of windows and materials for buildings that would affect the level of the impact of temperature.
“The entire Ministry Is now powered with energy-saving bulbs with well over 400 air conditioners with energy efficiency, “he said. “In the Works sector, we have also embraced some new technology of recycling used materials for road construction”.
He maintained that new technology of recycling is being used on the Abuja-Kano Highway, by recycling those materials used in the construction of the road in 1991.
Identifying water shortage as one of the major causes of conflict, he said that humans have taken so much from nature that nature is fighting back.
Story was adapted from Nigerian Tribune.
