AYTF @ Abuja Climate Summit
Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation- GIFSEP in partnership with GEF Desk Office Department of PRS Federal Ministry of Environment and a coalition of NGO’s invited the Leadership of Arewa Youth Trust Foundation to ABUJA CLIMATE SUMMIT which was held on the 7th of September 2018 at Merit House No. 22, J. T. Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama-Abuja, and a Walk for Climate on 8th September, 2018. Abuja Climate Summit is part of the Global Day of Action taking place in major cities around the world bringing people to come together to Rise for Climate Action. With climate impacts escalating — we don’t have the luxury to wait to see what bureaucratic negotiations have to offer. We need our local leaders to step up and do everything they can right now!
The Leadership contributed with information and proffer solutions towards sustainable environment. Meeting with political parties on inclusion of environment climate change and renewable energy in their manifesto and declaration of Abuja climate action. Role of development partners and examples of key interventions.
Climate change is principally a major problem caused by the increase of human activities, mismanagement of the earth leading to several direct and indirect impacts on health. These climatic changes have wide-range harmful effects including increase in heat-related mortality, dehydration, spread of infectious diseases, malnutrition, damage to public health infrastructure, migration of both man and animals among others.
Nigeria like other countries of the world has its own experience of climate change disasters like the one that struck 25 years ago in the north-eastern region presently comprising of Borno and Yobe states, the southern part of Lake chad, the section of it that lies inside Nigerian territory dried up.
Some four decades ago, the Lake covered an area of over 40,000 square kilometers, whereas it now encompasses a mere 1,300 square kilometers. While the negative trend continues unabated and as land is laid to waste by the rising temperature leading to the rapid southward expansion of the Sahara Desert. Farmlands and surrounding villages became barren and were swallowed up by advancing desertification, which led to massive migration of people in search of more fertile terrain from the north east towards the greener plateau and middle belt regions.
Advise from AYTF to government is to stop given out license to understand unqualified miners. Nigeria needs to focus on aquaculture production which also requires electricity.
Lagos State is the highest consumer of meat in Nigeria, We don't provide water for our live stock, When the climate dries up the cattle have no we're to get water and food, moving cattles from one place to another needs to end. We don't produce milk, we only patronize foreign milk, instead of ours, local breeds produces up to 1litre a day.
Human breathes about 9.5 tonnes of air in a year but why do we practice deforestation, Cutting down of trees , they give us oxygen that we breath, and we bring out carbon dioxide for them to survive also for the trees and therefore, when we keep cutting them down the trees, we are killing the climate and ourselves.
In essence government should put penalties for cutting trees, also cooking with firewoods the smoke is causing problems.
195 countries, including Nigeria adopts first climate agreements to keep temperature below average. Agriculture, power, industrial energy efficiency, oil and gas and transport, That's what Nigeria signs for Paris club. Government should encourage planting of trees to reduce migration, Fulani herdsmen and farmers clash, Will reduce our environment should encourage using toilets at home not on streams, Dumping of refuge should stop on the road, Burning of plastics should stop, Burning of plastics should stop, Pipeline vandalism should stop, it causes dried land, kills fishes in the river and causes explosions, Rivers became filld with plastics than fishes, We should encourage planting of grasses and trees instead of cutting them, We should encourage recycling of plastics and other waste products. The media, religious leaders, citizens should know more about climate change by sensitization, government have laws on oil spillage, Incinsearty from the government on guarding lives, Principle of Te government to protect the environment, It is their principle, They don't arrest oil vandalists. Government should checkmate Alot of things before given out mining license to companies.
We at Arewa Youth Trust Foundation, Will lunch a campaign on climate as soon as we can, that will be nation wide.
The Leadership contributed with information and proffer solutions towards sustainable environment. Meeting with political parties on inclusion of environment climate change and renewable energy in their manifesto and declaration of Abuja climate action. Role of development partners and examples of key interventions.
Climate change is principally a major problem caused by the increase of human activities, mismanagement of the earth leading to several direct and indirect impacts on health. These climatic changes have wide-range harmful effects including increase in heat-related mortality, dehydration, spread of infectious diseases, malnutrition, damage to public health infrastructure, migration of both man and animals among others.
Nigeria like other countries of the world has its own experience of climate change disasters like the one that struck 25 years ago in the north-eastern region presently comprising of Borno and Yobe states, the southern part of Lake chad, the section of it that lies inside Nigerian territory dried up.
Some four decades ago, the Lake covered an area of over 40,000 square kilometers, whereas it now encompasses a mere 1,300 square kilometers. While the negative trend continues unabated and as land is laid to waste by the rising temperature leading to the rapid southward expansion of the Sahara Desert. Farmlands and surrounding villages became barren and were swallowed up by advancing desertification, which led to massive migration of people in search of more fertile terrain from the north east towards the greener plateau and middle belt regions.
Advise from AYTF to government is to stop given out license to understand unqualified miners. Nigeria needs to focus on aquaculture production which also requires electricity.
Lagos State is the highest consumer of meat in Nigeria, We don't provide water for our live stock, When the climate dries up the cattle have no we're to get water and food, moving cattles from one place to another needs to end. We don't produce milk, we only patronize foreign milk, instead of ours, local breeds produces up to 1litre a day.
Human breathes about 9.5 tonnes of air in a year but why do we practice deforestation, Cutting down of trees , they give us oxygen that we breath, and we bring out carbon dioxide for them to survive also for the trees and therefore, when we keep cutting them down the trees, we are killing the climate and ourselves.
In essence government should put penalties for cutting trees, also cooking with firewoods the smoke is causing problems.
195 countries, including Nigeria adopts first climate agreements to keep temperature below average. Agriculture, power, industrial energy efficiency, oil and gas and transport, That's what Nigeria signs for Paris club. Government should encourage planting of trees to reduce migration, Fulani herdsmen and farmers clash, Will reduce our environment should encourage using toilets at home not on streams, Dumping of refuge should stop on the road, Burning of plastics should stop, Burning of plastics should stop, Pipeline vandalism should stop, it causes dried land, kills fishes in the river and causes explosions, Rivers became filld with plastics than fishes, We should encourage planting of grasses and trees instead of cutting them, We should encourage recycling of plastics and other waste products. The media, religious leaders, citizens should know more about climate change by sensitization, government have laws on oil spillage, Incinsearty from the government on guarding lives, Principle of Te government to protect the environment, It is their principle, They don't arrest oil vandalists. Government should checkmate Alot of things before given out mining license to companies.
We at Arewa Youth Trust Foundation, Will lunch a campaign on climate as soon as we can, that will be nation wide.
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