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By Ibraheem Hamza Muhammad
The Public Relations Officer, Kaduna State Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Dahiru Abdu, said Climate change is a global phenomena which is characterised by the transformation, changes in the usual climate of the planet, regarding temperatures, precipitation and winds that are specifically caused by human activities.
According to him, “The Kaduna state is making effort to reduce desert encrochment, as the administration of Governor Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai has established 310 kilometers shelter belts stretching from Birnin Gwari, Giwa, Kudan, Makarfi and Ikara Local Government Areas in its bid towards encouraging afforestation.
“This has made the state Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources to have embarked on annual statewide tree planting exercise and the distribution of tree seedlings to farmers, NGOs, residents, Governments and private institutions,” he said.
Abdu said that, by continually depleting our forest, the Indiscriminate felling of trees, not planting more, and the burning of fossils such as oil and coal, these led to the emission of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, and are factors affecting rainfall and the driying up of the surface water, resulting to poor agricultural harvest, making life difficult for human and animals, negatively also affecting the aquatics and degradation of the large portion of our environment.
He said that because developing nations coupled with poor and unstable economy are the most affected by the menace, the UN General Assembly, (UNGA), alongside the World Bank designed Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degregation of Forest (REDD+) for the establishment of economic plantations and encourages agroforestry across communities.
