Members of House of Representatives and critical stakeholders in the environment sector have underscored the need for a proper legal frame-work to streamline policies, issues and responses arising from effects of climate change.

The lawmakers and the actors in the sector are also craving for the establishment of National Council on Climate Change in Nigeria.They expressed their determination yesterday at a public hearing on a bill for an act to provide a legal frame-work for the mainstreaming of climate change responses and actions into government policy formulation, implementation and establishment of the National Council on Climate Change and for other related matters organised by the House Committee on Climate Change, headed by Samuel Onuigbo.

Onuigbo said that the bill reinforced the medium term policy objectives contained in the Nigeria Economic Recovery and Growth Plan 2017-2020.He said: “The is Bill is the product of a deliberate effort by the Legislature to fill critical gaps in legislative mechanism and also reset our thoughts and actions to create the enabling environment for the public and the private sectors to collaborate in investing massively in ambitious climate change related projects like renewable energy and climate finance