By Idowu
Oyebanjo
The Federal Government of Nigeria must
begin to look at the potential opportunities for Nigeria
to derive maximum benefits from the outcomes of the on-going COP 21 United
Nations Framework Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) in Le Bourget, Paris . To achieve an
optimum benefit for Nigeria, not only is it imperative that policy makers fully
understand the social, economic, environmental, financial, technological and
political issues around the subject, but the generality of Nigerians need to be
widely aware of changes in the global village they live in especially in the
way energy is to be viewed in the wider world around going forward. As the
subject of Climate Change is somewhat technical, it may suffice to give a
background on the subject before driving us through to the point we have
reached so far. This is what these series of articles on the subject will try
to achieve.
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Early contributors to climate
change include Fourier, Langley and Arrhenius. That the climate is changing is
not contestable but what is being argued over the years borders on the main
causes of climate change. Climate change is made possible by the increase in
the atmospheric concentration of Green House Gases (GHG) such as Carbon IV
Oxide (CO2), Nitrous Oxide (NO2), Methane (CH4),
Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC), Perfluorocarbon (PFC), and Sulfurhexafluoride (SF6).
All these gases absorb terrestrial infra red radiations.