Environmental stakeholders have expressed their readiness to address the challenge of climate change through awareness raising, adaptation, mitigation, planting of trees, and ecological restoration.
Through interschool debate and engaging students in the Go-Green project, the experts have launched a campaign to raise awareness of concerns related to climate change.
The Shehu Maikoli Foundation in Sokoto, the Eco-Africa Climate Change Foundation in Abuja, and the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Sokoto State Council, are behind the Go-Green project.
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The effort is in the vanguard of the fight to ingrain ecologically responsible behaviours, commonly referred to as “green habits for a sustainable ecosystem.”
Students from various educational institutions in Sokoto State are now Go-Green ambassadors and would help to preserve their ecosystems.
They took part in the Go-Green inter-tertiary institutions’ debate, which many said improved their understanding of climate change and inspired them to take action against the global catastrophe, which has been having a devastating impact locally.
The primary goal of the Go-Green project was to increase understanding of the issues, from the debate on whether or not climate change is real, to the concerns about its effects on social and health conditions, susceptibility, adaptations, and crisis mitigation.
Story was adapted from The Guardian.
