Members of the House of Representatives have demanded that global billionaires and multinational companies pay some taxes to support African countries battling climate change impacts, particularly victims of the recent flooding in the Nigerian states of Borno and Zamfara.Making the call at the ongoing special sitting of the Committees of the Pan-African Parliament in South Africa, the Deputy Speaker and leader of the Nigerian delegation to the forum, Benjamin Kalu, advocated a global climate tax to support climate adaptation in the world’s most vulnerable regions, especially Africa.He was reacting to a paper titled “The impact of climate change and Africa’s…
