President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Instrument of Ratification of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

The Presidency announced the big development on its official Twitter handle on Tuesday, March 28.

It also posted pictures of President Buhari signing the ratification documents in his office in the Presidential Villa at Aso Rock in the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja.

Naijaloaded gathered that the Paris Agreement is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and deals with greenhouse gases emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020.

According to Wikipedia, the agreement was negotiated by representatives of 195 countries at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC in Paris and adopted by consensus on 12 December 2015.

President Buhari signs Nigeria into Paris Agreement on climate change
With the agreement, Nigeria now has to reduce practices within the country that promote deteriorating of the environment

The agreement was opened for signing on April 22, 2016 at a ceremony in New York and went into effect on November 4, 2016.

Naijaloaded further gathered that Nigeria as now joined the 194 UNFCCC members that have signed the treaty and the around 141 that have ratified it as at March 2017.

Recall that the Presidency said Buhari would, during his stay in the United States for the 71st UN General Assembly, sign the Paris Treaty on Climate.

This was disclosed by Geoffrey Onyeama, Nigeria’s minister of foreign affairs, during a news conference in New York ahead of the president’s visit.