BNRCC Project Backgrounder - Building Nigeria's Response To ...

Stay in touch, stay informed, stayengaged! Visit our website todayto learn about the latest BNRCCproject developments, explore ourBNRCC Projectc/o NEST1 Oluokun Street, BodijaUIPO Box 22025Ibadan, NIGERIATel: +234.2.7517172Fax: +234‐2‐8501213Email: info@nestinteractive.orgClimate Change resources, andfind out how YOU can take action.Sign on to our new “Friends ofBNRCC” online database and bethe first to get exciting BNRCCnews as it happens!www.nigeriaclimatechange.org“The theme of this Session’s General Debate, ‘Responding to Climate Change’ ismost apposite. The African continent is particularly vulnerable to the impacts ofclimate change. In our collective determination to face up to this challenge, Africanleaders at the Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the AfricanUnion in Addis Ababa last January, decided to integrate climate change issuesinto all sustainable development initiatives at national and regional levels.”Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua at the 62 nd Session of the UN General AssemblyProduced with the financial support of the Government of Canada throughthe Canadian International Development Agency