Lara Adejoro The 2024 report of the climate governance performance rating and ranking of Nigeria’s 36 states has revealed Lagos, Gombe, and Ebonyi states as the top three performing states with scores of 182, 125, and 123 out of a possible total of 325 respectively. The report launched on Thursday in Abuja by the Society for Planet and Prosperity and the Ministry of Environment also showed that Borno and Ekiti states were joint fourth with 115 points each. The report revealed that Lagos State was the only state rated as outstanding in performance, while Gombe and Ebonyi states are rated as high in performance.
States rated as good performance, which fell within the fourth to 12th position in the rating, are Borno, Ekiti, Edo, Niger, Abia, Ogun, Kwara, Anambra, Bayelsa, Delta, and Yobe states. Adamawa, Kaduna, Sokoto, Enugu, Taraba, Kogi, Bauchi, and Ondo, occupying the 15th to 22nd position, in that order, are rated as average in the ranking performance. States with low scores are positioned within the 23rd to 36th position.
They are Cross-River, Imo, Akwa-Ibom, Katsina, Benue, Plateau. Rivers, Osun, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Jigawa, Oyo, Kano, and Zamfara, in that order with Zamfara having the lowest score at 35 points. The Director of the Society for Planet and Prosperity, Prof.
Chukwumerije Okereke, explained that Gombe, Lagos, and Ekiti states ranked the highest in institutional arrangements and administrative structure for subnational climate leadership. Okereke noted that Lago.