From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
Group of over eighty Global Civil Society Organisations and Seven leading environmental activists drawn from around the world have endorsed a joint letter calling on the Nigerian Government and all Governments supporting Oil and Gas extraction in the Niger Delta to offer significant financing for loss and damages for the people of Niger Delta and other host communities.
This was contained in a statement made available to the media in Kaduna yesterday
The statement stated that Group was led by Executive Director of Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, Rev David Ugolor, National Coordinator, Publish What You Pay, PWYP, Nigeria Campaign, Otitaloye, PWYP International, Both ENDS, 350.org, BiPoC Climate Justice Network Germany, Ogoni Solidarity Forum-Nigeria, Electra Energy Cooperative (Greece), Extinction Rebellion Germany, Extinction Rebellion Indonesia, among several, the CSOs.
The Global CSOs called For investors of fossil fuels to stop lending moral and financial support to companies that are expanding oil and gas production in defiance of the Paris Agreement.
The CSOs, most of whom are converged at Sharm el-Sheikh for the COP27 also called for an end to fossil fuel subsidy, and instead, tax oil and gas companies to provide money for communities.
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