Obasesam Okoi|2 December 2015|5:24am
Governor Ayade hardly concludes a speech however brief without invoking climate change rhetoric. While his rhetoric on Climate change is focused on tree planting, he ignores the technical mechanisms on climate governance which are market driven and technologically based.
Recently he created a Ministry of Climate Change which generated outrage on Social Media.
Unfortunately Cross River is absent at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
COP 21 in Paris.
This is the Conference of Parties
where new scientific ideas are communicated on global environmental governance. Ayade's speech during a recent pageantry contest in Calabar focused on how he intends to use beauty pageants in promoting climate change. Yet no pageant from Cross River is presently in France to add a new perspective to the climate change debate.
The governor could have sent a delegation to Paris who will return home and help integrate in his
government the latest scientific arguments on climate change or governance.
The commissioner for climate change, the permanent secretary, the directors and deputy directors including other strategic officers in the climate change ministry, are supposed to be in Paris right now, not occupying office spaces in
Calabar with no real work to do.
Obasesam Okoi
Is a Canadian-based University Don
