President Buhari appoints DG National Council on Climate Change
Zeniat Abubakar, Abuja
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr. Salisu Dahiru as Pioneer Director General, DG and Chief Executive Officer of the National Council on Climate Change.
The appointment takes effect from 25th July 2022.
President Muhammadu Buhari made a commitment for Nigeria to achieve a net zero emission by 2060, in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
The new DG, is expected to drive implementation of the Nigeria’s Climate Change Agenda and the National Climate Change Action Plan, including the development of a carbon market framework and a National Adaptation Plan, which will be inline with the aspirations of the country’s Nationally Determined Contributions NDC.
Dr. Dahiru holds B.Sc. Botany, M.Sc. Cytogenetics and Plant Breeding and PhD in Environmental Resources Management.
He has over thirty-seven years of experience in environmental management, sustainable development, and the academia, of which over fourteen years were in climate change policy, programs and projects at national and international levels.
He pioneered and led Nigeria’s Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) Programme.
He has been Nigeria’s lead negotiator for the Agriculture, Forest and Other Land Use, AFOLU, sector under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC.
Prior to his appointment, Dr. Dahiru was the National Project Coordinator for the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project NEWMAP, and the Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscape ACReSAL, Project, both financed by the World Bank.
