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Samson Itegboje

lines on the record: 28
first: 2020-05-15
most recent: 2020-11-03
sittings or episodes: 3
sources: un-security-council

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“We agree that we must address climate change and its consequences, including the degradation of the ecosystem. The issue of climate change must be integrated into peace efforts, which must in turn be adapted to changing climates and environments. That will, no doubt, require a holistic approach and joint and collaborative effort to tackle the problems of conflict and insecurity. In conclusion, there is no denying the fact that tackling the contemporary drivers of conflict and insecurity in the world is a collective responsibility. The entire United Nations system must support national and regional efforts to combat the threats that continuously lead to conflict and insecurity among Member States.”
2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source
“However, when conflicts do emerge, all mechanisms must be rolled out to respond and resolve them quickly. To that end, the Council should draw upon all the mechanisms of the United Nations system to address, prevent and respond to conflicts and threats to international peace and security. My delegation is of the view that an effective long-term strategy needs to be put in place to tackle such issues as a matter of priority. That includes addressing youth unemployment, the marginalization of women, social exclusion, inequality, respect for human rights, creating gainful employment opportunities and building a society based on the rule of law, sustainable growth and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which aims to leave no one behind.”
2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source
“The Security Council should therefore rise to the occasion, with cross-cutting engagement in the Peacebuilding Commission’s strategic advisory capacity and the Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund. That will help to address essential governance gaps and initiate projects and programmes that stimulate socioeconomic and political participation designed with respect to local customs and values of Member States in order to address the root causes of conflict. International and regional initiatives also play a significant role in addressing conflict and insecurity in the world. The Security Council and the United Nations system, in tandem with States, regional organizations and other stakeholders, must be proactive in preventing conflict from emerging in the first place.”
2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source
“Those developments explain why conflicts are prevalent on the African continent.It is also worth knowing that, in conflict-affected countries, where populations already suffer from multiple risks associated with the pandemic, the situation is further worsened by lack of access to markets and the disruption of supply chains and mobility restraint leading to the closure of markets. The inability to maintain social distancing among populations where health and sanitary facilities are inadequate, especially in camps, also presents a challenging security risk scenario, with the potential for high rates of infection to spread easily to communities within proximity. The COVID-19 pandemic has therefore unmasked the varying shades of inequality as well as impacted prospects for resilience and recovery.”
2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source
“The effects of increasing population, changing demographics, urban crowding and a dynamic geopolitical landscape have further challenged mitigation efforts aimed at the ravaging pandemic. Nigeria, like many African countries, is more vulnerable to the economic impact of climate change, particularly in relation to the depletion of natural resources, which has long-term environmental implications. Given the importance of agriculture as a main source of livelihood for a sizeable number of people on the continent, such climatic issues often lead to socioeconomic and political exclusion, which tend to aggravate pre-existing tensions within marginalized communities.”
2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source
“Those conflicts are deeply rooted in social, economic and political inequalities, coupled with weak State capacity and bad governance, in addition to various demographic factors such as increased population growth and rapid urbanization. The sum of those factors creates opportunities for violence that has persisted over time and further changed the global security architecture. According to the World Bank and the United Nations, countries experiencing violent conflict are unlikely to make significant progress for a generation, putting the Sustainable Development Goals out of reach for millions. The COVID-19 pandemic represents a specific and immediate threat to the very survival of the world population, made increasingly difficult owing to the vulnerability of the world’s socioeconomic infrastructure.”
2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source
“However, contemporary drivers of conflict and insecurity include poverty, inequality, terrorism, violent extremism, irregular migration, intercommunal violence, organized crime, the forceful acquisition of natural resources and, recently, the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, as well as the ever- growing threat posed by climate change. Those factors contribute significantly to the sustained and challenging security situation, with a cumulative impact on individuals and societies. Insecurity is also increasingly driven by the reoccurrence of conflicts in certain countries, rather than by the emergence of new ones.”
2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source
“Such frameworks are meant to address the fragmentation that exists both within the United Nations system and among Member States. Policy actors have concluded that the best approach to determine the pathway for sustaining peace, after decades of top-down peacebuilding efforts, is bottom-up, which is more inclusive and able to address the grievances that give rise to conflict and those that result from war. Peacebuilding actors need to identify ways to navigate competing demands through integrated response strategies that address the root causes and drivers of conflict and insecurity.”
2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source
“Allow me, at the outset, to thank the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, His Excellency Mr. Ralph Gonsalves, and the Permanent Mission of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines for organizing today’s open debate. Our appreciation also goes to Ms. Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General; Mr. Ibrahim Mayaki, Chief Executive Officer of the African Union Development Agency; Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies; and Mr. Munir Akram, President of the Economic and Social Council, as well as the other briefers, for their insightful briefings. Peacebuilding and sustaining peace focus on political processes and political solutions with strategic frameworks to address the complexity of conflict in today’s world.”
2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source
“And, since no individual country can confront the phenomenon alone, we call for joint and collaborative efforts to tackle the problem.”
2020-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/751 (2020) · source
“Nigeria will continue to take steps to establish six geopolitical zonal hubs for harnessing innovative climate ideas from young Nigerians, as well as include our youth in decision-making processes as part of our overall climate change governance architecture. We will also continue to create youth entrepreneurship/green jobs from renewable energy, including solar, and establish a youth innovation fund within the currently existing Bank of Agriculture, the Bank of Industry and the Development Bank of Nigeria. We will also mobilize Nigerian youth towards planting 25 million trees to enhance Nigeria’s carbon sink. In conclusion, there is no gainsaying the fact that the challenges of climate change are enormous.”
2020-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/751 (2020) · source
“We will continue to forge a mutually beneficial coalition of global partnership, including the private sector and regional Governments, towards addressing the socioeconomic and security challenges that face the Lake Chad region. Nigeria also intends to carry out an upward review of its nationally determined contribution towards the inclusion of additional sectors by 2020. In the water sector, Nigeria is underwriting a green bond for irrigation and constructing multipurpose dams for power, irrigation and water supply, in line with integrated water-resource management principles. In the waste management sector, Nigeria has set up plans to develop a national solid and liquid waste policy and commission a feasibility study of waste-to-energy projects at the national and states levels to attract private sector investors.”
2020-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/751 (2020) · source
“The sovereign bonds issued were used to provide off-grid renewable energy in seven federal universities in different geopolitical zones of the country, as well as to generate and distribute off-grid renewable energy resources in some unserved and underserved areas, especially rural communities in the country, with an emission reduction of up to 41,888,04 metric tons in the past two years, creating green jobs and planting trees in over 2,000 hectares of land across Nigeria. As a show of commitment, the next issuance in the series is under way, which we intend to use to triple Nigeria’s greenhouse-gas emission reductions, stimulate economic growth and catalyse investment in social programmes, such as education and health.”
2020-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/751 (2020) · source
“To that effect, the Nigerian Government is developing a rehabilitation programme and finalizing the development of the Lake Chad Basin Climate Change Resilience Action Plan, which includes an inter-basin water transfer project estimated to cost $55 billion. Nigeria has also embraced the issuances of green bonds as an innovative and alternative source of funding projects that would reduce emissions and provide the robust climate infrastructure needed in Nigeria, such as renewable energy, low- carbon transport, water infrastructure and sustainable agriculture.”
2020-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/751 (2020) · source
“Nigeria’s commitment to its obligation under the Paris Agreement, particularly the aspirations enshrined in our nationally determined contribution, including the commitment to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 20 per cent unconditionally and 45 per cent conditionally by 2030, is unwavering. Nigeria is leading in the efforts to create solid partnerships for the recharge of Lake Chad, in the belief that it would help improve the living conditions of populations settled in the area, promote sustainable productive activities, improve inter-State cooperation and transboundary circulation, strengthen adaptation and community resilience, as well as assist in addressing the environmental and security risks that threaten the region, its resources and inhabitants.”
2020-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/751 (2020) · source
“In other words, the Climate Action Summit reinforced 1.5°C as the socially, economically, politically and scientifically safe limit to global warming by the end of this century, and net zero emissions by 2050 as the global long-term climate objective for all. It called on all countries to urgently accelerate work to define what this entails for the short-term 2020 and the mid-term (2030) commitments, which will be captured in their nationally determined contributions, and ensure the alignment of strategies to meet those commitments. There is no gainsaying the fact that the world needs to take more concrete steps to mitigate the fast-declining health of our planet. There is a need for all leaders to step up their climate actions in line with the request of the Secretary-General.”
2020-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/751 (2020) · source
“We wish to recall that the Secretary-General convened a Climate Action Summit on 23 September 2019 to focus global attention in the face of the worsening climate crisis and to forge new pathways ahead to support the achievement of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Leaders at all levels were requested to step up to the challenge and demonstrate that business as usual was no longer acceptable. The Climate Action Summit set a clear direction of travel for climate action, but it also highlighted where much more action was needed to secure our footing on a path towards 1.5°C by the end of the century.”
2020-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/751 (2020) · source
“The Lake Chad basin, which used to be a beehive of productivity, food security and wealth for citizens of eight African countries living around the basin, has shrunk significantly from its original size owing to climate change. This has led to a severe humanitarian crisis, as the region suffers from violence linked to armed groups, such as the Boko Haram terrorist group. The restrictions on the movement of farmers and pastoralists seeking alternative livelihoods during droughts limit their opportunities for income diversification, thereby exposing them to more vulnerabilities, such as youth recruitment, as well as the kidnapping and enslavement of women, by armed groups.”
2020-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/751 (2020) · source
“The contests over vital natural resources, particularly water and grazing fields, have become dire as the impact of climate change takes hold. Such contests have had significant security implications for Nigeria and other African countries. The incessant herder-farmer crises in Nigeria demonstrate the reality of climate change and the resource-control interface, and the attendant deep-rooted security challenges. Climate change is also associated with the problems of migration, terrorism and farmer-herder clashes in the Sahel, which have resulted in maiming, killings, rape and other forms of banditry associated with highly armed nomadic herders. The increasing loss of ecosystems, which traditionally provide means of livelihood for communities in the area, has continued to lead to forced displacement and migration concerns.”
2020-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/751 (2020) · source
“In conflict-afflicted countries, where populations already suffer from multiple risks posed by climate change, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has further aggravated such situations by preventing access to markets, disrupting supply chains and restraining mobility, leading to the closure of markets. The lack of capacity to practice social distancing among populations displaced as a result of climate-related developments in camps where health and sanitary facilities are inadequate presents another challenging security risk scenario with the potential to lead to a high number of infections, which could spread to nearby communities. The COVID-19 pandemic has therefore unmasked the shades of inequality, as well as prospects for resilience and recovery.”
2020-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/751 (2020) · source
“The cumulative effects of climate change have resulted in a rise in temperatures, variable rainfall, a rise in sea levels and flooding, drought, desertification, land degradation, extreme weather conditions, diminishing freshwater resources and a loss of biodiversity, thereby depriving entire populations of their livelihoods. Women, who constitute the majority of the agricultural workforce in Africa and elsewhere, are disproportionately affected by the effects of climate change, deepening gender inequality, affecting maternal health and women’s economic productivity and increasing the risk of gender-based violence.”
2020-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/751 (2020) · source
“Let me, at the outset, thank all the delegations that organized and co-sponsored today’s open debate. Our special appreciation goes to His Excellency Mr. António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, for his remarks and far-reaching recommendations. We also thank other briefers for sharing their perspectives on this important subject. My delegation would like to make the following additional remarks in its national capacity. Climate change is a global challenge that burdens all of humankind at various levels. The distinct impact of climate change on both men and women can be seen in the areas of violent conflict, political instability and economic strife, leading to food insecurity and loss of livelihood, which threaten to reverse hard-won development gains.”
2020-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/751 (2020) · source
“Before I conclude, I wish to note that the coronavirus disease pandemic has effectively exposed the underbelly of the Security Council and brought to the fore the need for the total reform of the Council, a Council whose membership, both permanent and non-permanent, is reflective of all geographical zones of the world — a truly democratized and inclusive Security Council that is functional, fit for purpose and ready to take on the global challenges of the twenty-first century. Nigeria, like most Member States, will continue to support, and spare no effort in advocating for, a meaningful reform that will not only make the Security Council more relevant, transparent, efficient and effective in addressing present and emerging global challenges, but also promote the core principles of the United Nations Charter.”
2020-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/418 (2020) · source
“Fourthly, consultations and cooperation should be expanded to non-Council- member States, particularly troop-contributing countries and police-contributing countries, as well as regional organizations.Fifthly, the Council should hold more wrap-up sessions to improve the flow of substantive information and understanding of the Council’s positions within the wider membership. Sixthly, Council members should also strive to promote more interaction with the Peacebuilding Commission and regional organizations that play important roles in conflict prevention and management.”
2020-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/418 (2020) · source
“First, there is a need for the submission of an analytical and comprehensive evaluation of the Council’s substantive work in its annual report to the General Assembly. Secondly, there should be an increase in the number of interactive briefings, informal interactive dialogues and Arria Formula meetings as well as other public meetings. Thirdly, permanent and elected members could serve as Chairs of the subsidiary bodies and have an equal say in the selection of those Chairs in accordance with presidential note S/2017/507, which stresses that any member may be a penholder, in keeping with our collective accountability for the maintenance of international peace and security. In other words, there should be burden-sharing and a more equal distribution of work among all members of the Council to enhance its effectiveness.”
2020-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/418 (2020) · source
“The working methods of the Council should also be tailored in such a way as to ensure that the conflicts on its agenda, as well as emerging threats, are addressed within their time frames and at meetings designed, in terms of format and focus, in order to bring about the best chance of a meaningful outcome from the Council’s deliberations. Furthermore, the Council needs to improve its informal consultations. Meetings are not the primary aspect of the Council’s modus operandi; rather, meeting behind closed doors provides the opportunity for Council members to engage informally with the aim of achieving concrete results. Other measures that my delegation believes can be taken to further enhance transparency, efficiency and effectiveness in the work of the Security Council in achieving its objectives include the following.”
2020-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/418 (2020) · source
“It should also adapt them with respect to its subsidiary bodies and ensure the full participation of all members of the Security Council in its work, including the holding of the presidency of the enlarged Council by non-permanent members at least once during their tenure. It should also refrain from using Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations for issues that do not pose a threat to international peace and security and avoid any recourse to the imposition or prolongation of sanctions on any State, which serves the interest of only one or several States, as against the general interest of the international community.”
2020-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/418 (2020) · source
“Let me, at the outset, thank Ambassador Rhonda King, Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Chair of the Informal Working Group on Documentation and other Procedural Questions, for having convened this important open video-teleconference debate on ensuring transparency, efficiency and effectiveness in the work of the Security Council. I also extend our thanks to other briefers for their insightful contributions. Good working methods are not only essential to the work of the Council but also go to the heart of its performance. We therefore offer the following proposals. The Council should adapt its working methods to ensure its transparent, efficient and accountable functioning, in the light of the anticipated increase in its membership.”
2020-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/418 (2020) · source