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A former member of the House Representatives and climate change advocate, Dr Sam Onuigbo on Thursday in Abuja advocated concerted action if the fight against climate change would be a success.
Onuigbo who stated this during an interactive session with newsmen, said that government institutions, traditional rulers and all relevant stakeholders should cooperate with one another in the efforts to combat climate change.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Onuigbo was recently nominated for 30 Global Leaders on Climate Change Award by Business Insider in recognition of his climate change mitigation and prevention campaign.
Onuigbo who sponsored the Climate Change Act which is now referred by many as ‘Sam Onuigbo Climate Change Act’ is the chairman, Security, Special Interventions and Climate Change, Governing Board, Northeast Development Commission (NEDC).
He said the menace was partly responsible for the conflicts in different parts of the country particularly in the north east and north central.
He said disappearing grasslands in the northeast had forced some herders to move southwards, thereby triggering conflicts between herders and farmers as struggle over grazing and farming lands escalated.
Onuigbo commended president Bola Tinubu who whose recent actions such as the establishment of Compressed to Natural Gas centers for buses, and the libralisation of electricity generation and distribution through the Electricity Act would contribute to mitigating climate change.
He said such moves where indicative of the fact that Tinubu was conscious of where the world was heading to in addressing climate change.
Speaking on CoP 28 scheduled to hold Nov 30 to Dec. 12 in Dubai, Onuigbo said it offered an opportunity to world leaders, experts and stakeholders to negotiate the way forward for climate change.
He said the conference was an opportunity for both the developed and developing countries fine tune strategies for partnership against a common enemy.
He called on developed countries to invest in clean energy sources in Africa as well as help African nations with technologies that would enable them utilise abundant clean energies on the continent.
“All hands must be on deck to tackle the challenge posed by climate change. It facts all of us in different ways, food, humans, wildlife, and domestic animals, the environment.
“Climate change contributes to pollution that kills over seven million people annually. It contributes to food insecurity, insecurity. It affects each and every one of us”, Onuigbo said.
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