The federal government and other key agencies have been told to encourage Nigerians to continue planting trees in their neighborhoods to withstand the effects of climate change and help to reduce flooding and its adverse consequences.
National Coordinator, Climate and Sustainable Development Network Steven Abu and other speakers said this during a multi-stakeholders workshop on environmental rights and green growth policy development for women and youths in Kogi State which held at the Federal University Lokoja.
The workshop also included the Inauguration of the Green For Life initiative.
The initiative is a tree planting exercise is aimed at helping to fight climate change around the university community.
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In line with this, the Federal University Lokoja has made it compulsory for all students to plant trees as part of their academic tasks.
The university’s vice chancellor, Professor Olayemi Akinwumi described Kogi as one of the states severely affected by climate change.
The Climate and Sustainable Development Network, which facilitated the programme, wants the international community to double its adaptation finance through tree planting to reduce the green house gas effect in Nigeria.
Its national coordinator Steven Abu said despite the Paris agreement where world leaders committed $100 billion to cushion the impact of climate change, nothing has been done, leaving countries like Nigeria at the receiving end of climate change disasters.
(Editor: Oloyede Oworu)
