Nigeria and Climate Change

Devising state-level climate change responses

Jan, 02 2011 - State governments in Nigeria appear to have taken up a campaign to address the impact of the changing global climate. If the outcome of a series of presentations at a recent forum in Lagos is anything to go by, indications are that a basketful of adaptation and mitigation initiatives has either been set in motion or in the pipeline waiting to be unleashed.

Faced with numerous environmental degradation measures (such as forest degradation, desertification, erosion, oil spillage, gas flaring and ocean surge) that have to a large extent aggravated the climate change phenomenon, no fewer than seven out of the nation’s 36 states have joined forces to turn around their fortunes.

The states are Lagos, Niger, Cross River, Akawa Ibom, Delta, Anambra and Sokoto.

Courtesy of the State Climate Change Dialogue (SCCD) facilitated by the Lagos State Government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), state governments are being provided a platform for exchange of ideas and information on climate change and ultimately charting a course for synergistic sub-nationally driven interventions as the foundation for appropriate national response. {continued}