Climate Governance and Legislation in Nigeria: Matters Arising

Abstract

Climate governance in Nigeria is a new entrant to the domain of public interest and attempts at legislating on it through agenda setting in-roads and eventual attainment of the list of state responsibilities for public policy appears illusory. This paper attempts an interrogation of the political architecture – National Legislative Assembly (NASS) and Federal Executive arms of government in Nigeria’s capacity to articulate climate change policies and sustain its governance in the midst of competing exigencies. Relying on secondary documents, the “public choice theory” helps in understanding the legislative delays and its ramification for Nigeria climate policy. The core argument herein, hinges on the comatose nature of legislation on that area, the state of the Nigeria’s earlier vision 2020 framework in which climate change was encased and the eventual drifting into obscurity of the vision. This paper further posits the need for governance urgency connected to concretized deliverables within the context of the greater good and inclusiveness.