President Muhammadu Buhari arrived Paris, France, to join about 150 other world leaders for the Conference of Parties 21 (COP21).
The meeting is aimed getting nations to agree on how to deal with the issue of climate change.
President Buhari will present Nigeria’s statement at the opening session today before participating in the launching of the International Solar Alliance, an initiative of Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, who has invited around 110 nations to join the alliance.
The alliance is to be named the International Agency for Solar Policy and Application (InSPA) and is aimed at a host of African nations and others located within the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.
The president will thereafter attend a summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission and Benin Republic which has been scheduled to take place tomorrow on the sidelines of the COP21.
Deliberations at the Paris meeting of the Lake Chad Basin Commission and Benin Republic will focus mainly on the war against Boko Haram and other security issues of common interest to participating countries.
Also on Tuesday, the president has been scheduled to participate in another COP21 sideline event titled: “The Conference on Climate Change and African Solutions” organised by the African Union (AU).
