Effectiveness of domestic climate action: interplay of legal enforcement, regulatory adequacy and international diplomacy

Nigeria has assembled, within a short period, a substantial architecture of climate law and policy, including the Climate Change Act 2021, the National Climate Change Policy and the establishment of the National Council on Climate Change. Whether that architecture translates into effective domestic climate action depends less on the existence of instruments than on whether they are enforceable, whether their regulatory content is adequate to the task, and whether the institutions administeri