NIGERIAN Bottling Company (NBC) Ltd., has urged stakeholders in the manufacturing sector to embrace sustainable manufacturing across their operations as a tool to mitigate the impact of climate change in Nigeria. Speaking at the 3rd edition of the annual NBC Stakeholders Forum tagged, ‘Combating Climate Change Through Resource Efficiency’, held in Lagos, recently, the company’s Managing Director Mr. Matthieu Seguin, explained that the event was aimed at exploring opportunities to co-creating sustainable solutions to the challenges of climate change. He stated that the workshop was a follow-up to the series of investments the company had made by towards sustainable manufacturing to achieve its set target of Net Zero emissions by the year 2040. In his remarks, the Minister of Environment, Barrister Mohammed Abdullahi, commended the contributions of the Coca-Cola System towards environmental sustainability, particularly its ambitious targets to achieve net zero carbon emissionsacross its operations by the year 2040. “For Nigeria, the target for net zero is to be achieved by 2060 and for NBC to come up with these ambitious targets means a lot of investment and changes in its technology, approach, and resource utilisation,” he stated.

Source: Nigerian Tribune October 03, 2022 08:28 UTC