…as Sanwo-Olu calls for nore global action
Global effort to lower emission levels of organic pollutants would not yield desired outcome if industrialised economies continue to pay lip service to interventions that can double the capacity of sub-national players in cutting organic pollution in the waste sector.
This was the submission of Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu at the Local Climate Action Summit – a side conference organised by Sub-national Climate Action Leaders Exchange (SCALE) at the ongoing 28th session of Conference of Parties (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The Governor stated that the State Government has the goal to reduce methane emissions by 45 percent by 2035 in Lagos predicated on consistent funding of its waste processing capacity.
He spoke at a panel discussion with the theme: “Lowering Organic Waste Methane”, presided over by the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, Mr. John Kerry and Mr. Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP and Special Envoy to the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General on Climate Ambition.
Sanwo-Olu said Lagos, on its own, had committed personal finances to double intervention in material waste recovery, which built waste processing capacity below the required benchmark.
He emphasised the need for Lagos to build an infrastructure that could process between 6,000 and 8,000 metric tonnes of public waste daily in order to reduce organic methane emissions.