Nigeria & Climate Change Adaptation. By Stanley Ijeoma

Climate change is on the minds of every country, but perhaps nowhere will the effects be so dramatic or potentially calamitous as in Africa. Stanley Ijeoma, a foremost "Enviropreneur" and one of only two Africans on the Board of World Council for Renewable Energy, shares his vision for what will be necessary for Nigeria to adapt to the impending impacts of climate change. 

The article identifies a set of eight strategies that involve both governmental action as well as private sector investments and address economic, infrastructure, education and social aspects of Nigerian life.

Young Climate Activist Decide

The Nigerian chapter of the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change (AYICC) votes for its national leaders. The elections would usher in a new team to lead this awesome network for the next two years (2012-2014) with a clear mandate to position AYICC as the Nigerian/African youth network supporting Nigerian/African governments in proffering sustainable solutions to problems attributable to climate change.

Enhancing Nigeria’s response to the environment

Lawal

Youthful Abuja-based Information Technology analyst and advocate for change, Hamzat Lawal, makes a case for the National Climate Change Commission, urging the Presidency to give the proposal a second look.

Over the last four years, I’ve poured my energy into helping design and enact Africa’s first national climate change legislation for my country, Nigeria. While this enormously important task isn’t yet complete, I want to share how things have gone so far and where we need go from here and need for young people around the world to take actions most especially in Africa to tackle our climatic threats.

Advisor Tasks Youths On Climate Change

Hamzat

Advisor, Hamza Lawal, Nigerian Youth Climate Action Network (NYCAN) , an NGO, says the effective combat of climate change and improved environmental sustainability rest on the shoulders of the youths.

Lawal, who is also a member, Steering Committee SustainNIGERIA, spoke at the children’s’ day celebration and the introduction of the Abuja Rio +20 on Sunday, at the Millennium Park, Abuja.

He said that this was so because children and the youths constituted more than 60 per cent of the total population of Nigeria and represented the generation mostly affected by climate change.

“Though climate change affects everyone, we bear the greatest brunt of its impact because it is in our time and in our children’s’ future that the full consequences would be felt,’’ he said

Climate of Change

Author:         Elaigwu Ameh

Reviewer:     Yemi Adebisi

Publisher:      University Press Plc.

No of pages: 71

Struggling for survival in most of the third world countries has sent several innocent souls to the great beyond. While many great minds have passed away through the strokes of poverty bedevilled by societal norms, others have crossed the boundary of life to death by the harsh lashes of those disgruntled leaders in the corridor of power in the name of ruling their world by force.

In Climate of Change, set in an imagined land of Bagada village, the untold stories of the despotic and unruly behaviour of politicians, who pitch their nest with greedy leaders of the masses, desperately unveil the mass injustice in our society.

Tweet-Meet on Oil Spills in the Niger Delta

The Niger Delta is the location of massive oil deposits, which have been extracted for decades by the government of Nigeria and by multinational oil companies. Oil has generated an estimated $600 billion since the 1960s. Despite this, the majority of the Niger Delta’s population live in poverty, with crumbling social infrastructure and services, high unemployment, social deprivation, abject poverty, filth and squalor, and endemic conflict. The majority of the people of the Niger Delta do not have adequate access to clean water or health-care.  

Lawmakers pass National Climate Change Commission Bill

Nigeria’s House of Representatives has passed a Bill for the establishment of the National Climate Change Commission.

This is the second time the House is passing the Bill after the harmonised version that was sent to the President was not assented to before the expiration of the last assembly.

Reacting to the bill’s passage the Nigeria Youth Climate Action Network commended the determination of the House for giving legislative backing to issues of climate change.

A case for youth participation in climate change policy process.

Unico

By Unico Iregbu Kalu

Climate change is fast introducing an alternative pathway to both national and global development. Twenty years ago, an average young man would engage on any available practice to eke out a living, without giving a thought to the impacts of his actions on both the environment and the climate. The effects of climate change are already here with us and it is the young people who will bear the greater brunt of the effects. As such, lifestyles and attitudes are gradually moving towards reducing the emission of greenhouse gases. Globally, young people are becoming aware of their roles in the fight against climate change and possible effects of their actions and inactions. Their contributions range from advocacy, public enlightenment, research, to actual demonstration of low carbon path through either engaging in recycling, planting trees or getting involved in the development of solar technologies.

Nigeria’s climate of violence | RTCC – Responding to Climate Change

Source: Re: Hot Spots of Global Change….(Photo Essay)

By Jack Hamilton

Last week a ten year old boy was killed after a rocket was fired at a school in the Nigerian city of Jos.

Over one hundred more people have been killed in the past two weeks amid the ongoing ethno-religious violence in across Plateau State, of which Jos is the capital.

Responses and accusations have abounded over the political and cultural reasons for the violence but little attention is being paid to one of the chief catalysts behind the conflict: climate change.

Climate change is a driver of conflict.  Scarcity of resources, be they farmable land, water or livestock, is creating mass migrations and antagonising pre-existing tensions in a vicious circle.

Reps pass bill on climate change

The House of Representatives has passed the Bill for the establishment of the National Climate Change Commission. This is the second time the House is passing the Bill after the harmonised version that was sent to President Goodluck Jonathan was not assented to before the expiration of the last Assembly.