US commits $200m to climate action in Nigeria

ABUJA, Nigeria (The Informant247) – The United States Government is to commit 200 million U.S. dollars to start-up process on Clean Energy Demand Initiative to help address climate change in Nigeria, the country’s envoy said on Tuesday.

“The initiative is also to accelerate the marketplace creation, so that it will help transition programme faster and help to achieve a clean energy economy as well as dealing with climate crisis,” U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry said when his team paid a courtesy visit to the minister of environment Mohammed Abdullahi in Abuja.

“The minister has agreed in the letter of intent. We have 200 million dollars at the moment committed to the startup in the process of safety,” he said.

Kerry added that the initiative would take a lot of billions of dollars and trillions of investment in the country.