Imo state governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, has flagged off the Hope Green Revolution and approved the holistic green strategies for a greener and new Imo, as the state officially goes green in November 2022 at Government House, Owerri.
In his address to the event, Governor Uzodimma disclosed that the Hope Green Revolution is an ambitious and revolutionary means to contain climate change in the state and sub-Saharan Africa.
In a bid to drive the Hope Green Revolution to a fruitful end, the Governor disclosed that he has directed all the sole administrators to plant 10,000 trees in the local governments, even as he urged all Imolites to plant and nurture trees in their respective environments.
Speaking earlier, the Managing Director/CEO of Numerix Development Limited, Engr. Babatunde Aina highlighted the immediate take-off projects which are: Clean Cooking Technologies Deployment to be distributed and All-encompassing Retrofitting.
Others are innovative economic tree planting and nurturing, training and capacity building for green jobs creation, and the Imo state carbon credit train for improved economic prosperity – leaving no one behind.
According to Engr Aina, the Imo government had appointed and signed a joint venture partnership agreement for carbon credits, carbon finance, carbon revenues, and carbon emissions Reduction with his company and Summit Innovative and Synergy Limited in Nigeria.
He said the initiative is under a Strategic Green Partnership Initiative, adding that the Hope Green Revolution has proven to be the first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa as it is beyond planting trees.
The flag-off ceremony was an event for strategic stakeholders in climate finance, trade, investment, environment, health, sustainability, energy, transportation, carbon assets management, technology, climate innovation, green growth, and other relevant sectors in Nigeria and Africa.
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