BREAKFAST DIALOGUE ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND COALITION PARTNERSHIP FOR CARBON EMISSION REDUCTION

      The World Bank launched the Business Coalition on Carbon Emission Pricing in June 2014 which is a direct link to energy efficiency and renewable energy investments into global economy. Local or country coalitions are emerging accordingly. 

      The Nigeria Coalition is being facilitated by the Carbon Exchange Trade, a platform for the exchange of carbon pollution for renewable assets investments under SMEFUNDS Group, a green economy organization, hosting Nigeria’s Carbon Credit Network and a member of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). 

      As a signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the World Bank’s Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition programme, it facilitates renewable energy investments into the Nigerian economy.

     In order to appropriately align efforts of Nigerian economic and policy actors with the global activism in climate change, carbon emission pricing and energy efficiency, the Carbon Exchange Trade with Mr Innocent Azih at its helm of affairs, mobilized players drawn from Business, government, civil society, media and academia to a Breakfast Dialogue with the purpose of developing a Coalition framework (vehicle) for local action on Carbon Pricing.


       THE BREAKFAST DIALOGUE ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND COALITION PARTNERSHIP FOR CARBON EMISSION REDUCTION was a one-day compact conversation on Climate Change, Carbon Emission Reduction and Renewable Assets Investment with the theme: Climate Change and Economic diversification.

 This conversation took place on Tuesday August 18, 2015. The venue was the Nigerian-German Business Association, Victoria Island Lagos. It was a prelude to domesticating the Leadership Coalition on Carbon Emission reduction programme.