The Heads of State and Government of the Sahel Region Climate Commission (SRCC) have chosen Nigeria to host the Secretariat of the Sahel Climate Fund.
Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, confirmed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.
According to Shehu, a communiqué issued at the end of the second conference of Heads of State and Government of SRCC held on the margins of the 36th AU Summit, also approved the appointment of Issifi Boureim of Niger Republic as the Executive Secretary of the Commission.
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Econaiplus had earlier reported that President Muhammadu Buhari while speaking at the conference on Friday, declared Nigeria’s interest to host the headquarters of the Sahel Climate Fund and readiness to provide all necessary amenities.
The “Sahel Climate Fund” is the financial body of the Sahel Region Climate Commission (SRCC).
The organization was established as one of the three climate commissions for Africa in Marrakech, Morocco, in 2016 at the summit of African heads of state and government, which the king of Morocco organized on his own initiative on the sideline of the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP22) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Story was adapted from The Guardian
