There is something profoundly symbolic about workers discussing climate change in a country where millions still struggle daily with electricity shortages, unemployment, inflation and collapsing infrastructure. For years, climate negotiations sounded like elite environmental conversations held in distant cities among diplomats speaking technical grammar unfamiliar to ordinary citizens. But that reality is changing rapidly. Today, climate change has entered the factory floor, the construction site, the farm, the transport sector and even the local market.
This is why the preparedness of the Nigeria Labour Congress ahead of the forthcoming United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Sixty-Fourth sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice and Subsidiary Body for Implementation meeting – known by its acronym UNFCCC SB64 – in Bonn, Germany, from June 8 – 18, 2026, deserves serious attention.
The Subsidiary Bodies meeting may not attract the glamour and media attention of the annual Conference of the Parties (to the UNFCCC) summits, but insiders know it is one of the most important technical arenas in global climate diplomacy. It is at SB64 that much of the real negotiation happens — from adaptation frameworks to climate finance, transparency mechanisms, energy transition pathways and increasingly, the politics of Just Transition.
