Ahead of the United Nation’s Climate Change Summit in Glasgow Scotland, some Nigerians want the government to ensure strict compliance with laws protecting the environment, and curtail environmental degradation, caused by human activities.
The group says, various states in Nigeria are already suffering the effect of climate change, and it could get worse if action is not taken fast.
Despite decades of warnings on the devastating effects of human activities on climate change globally, many are yet to take heed of the dangers that climate change poses to human existence.
Of recent, Jalingo residents in the Taraba State capital, have come under the unusual occurrence of flooding, an obvious sign of environmental degradation, caused by human activities.
Ahead of the United Nations’s 2021 Climate Change Summit in Glasgow Scotland, a civil society group in Taraba State has launched a faith-based campaign, using religion as a tool to canvas protection for God’s creation, especially mother earth.
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The advocacy targets to catch young Nigerians and train them on mitigating the effects of climate change, through protecting the environment.
A symbolic planting of trees by the team is expected to teach these students through action, the significance of afforestation.
The need for stiffer measures by the government against human activities, degrading the environment, is a key issue that civil society organisations in Nigeria, have continued to push for.
Nigeria is among countries in the world, bound by the Paris Climate Accord: an international treaty on climate change.
The country is also expected to participate in the 2021 Climate Change Summit in Scotland.
(Editor : Ena Agbanoma)
