Environment experts have launched the “Vote4Climate 2027 Campaign,” urging voters to look beyond ethnicity, religion and zoning and demand clear climate action plans from political candidates ahead of the next general election.
The experts who unveiled the campaign as part of activities to mark the 2026 World Environment Day
raised concerns over land degradation, the growing dominance of imported seeds over indigenous varieties and the need for policies to guide Nigeria’s emerging renewable energy sector.
Nigeria is facing an environmental emergency that is already reshaping lives and livelihoods.
Lake Chad, once a major source of income and food for millions, has lost more than 90% of its size since the 1960s. In Northern Nigeria, desertification continues to swallow thousands of hectares of productive farmland every year, forcing families from their ancestral homes and intensifying competition over scarce resources.
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Environment experts have now launched the campaign raising concerns over land degradation, women inclusion in climate decision-making, the growing dominance of imported seeds over indigenous varieties, and the need for policies to guide Nigeria’s emerging renewable energy sector.
As this year’s World Environment Day is marked with the theme, ‘Inspired by Nature. For Climate. For Our Future,’ stakeholders stressed that protecting the environment is a matter of survival, security and sustainable development.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
