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| President Buhari at the COP26 World Leader’s Summit and Side-Events of the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow Scotland on 1st Nov 2021 |
American billionaire and founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, on Monday in Glasgow, Scotland commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s leadership role in restoring degraded lands in the country, describing the commitment to restore 4 million hectares as exemplary.
Bezos joined President Buhari, French President Emmanuel Macron, Prince Charles and the Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani at a COP 26 side event entitled โAccelerating land restoration in Africa, the case of the Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative.โ.
Heaping praises on the Nigerian leader at the event co-hosted by the French President, his Mauritanian counterpart and the Prince of Wales, the Amazon founder said:
โโWe are fortunate to have President Buhari of Nigeria with us today.
โโNigeria plays a critical role in the restoration movement and has pledged to restore 4 million hectares of degraded lands.
โโThis kind of ambition coming from Africaโs largest economy underscores just how vital this issue is.โโ
The Bezos Earth Fund has a 10 billion dollar fund to allocate money to projects fighting climate change.
Nigeria is due to assume the leadership of Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Pan African Agency of the Great Green Wall.
President Buhari had used the occasion of his address to appeal to fellow leaders to continue to make concerted efforts at land restoration.
โโI am optimistic that Africaโs ambition of restoring over 100million hectares of degraded landscape for productive agriculture is achievable,โโ he said.
President Buhari also pledged Nigeriaโs unalloyed commitment to expanding the achievements of the GGW programme in Africa from the enviable status attained under the leadership of President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani of Mauritania.
โโTogether we commit to the transformative process of restoring the African degraded landscape and ultimately the continentโs environment,โโ he said.
