IANA Blog- April 2023
Happy April,
As we all know, April 22nd is Earth Day. Of course, on Earth Day is the day that we support environmental protection. Hopefully, people don’t just wait til Earth Day to do some environmental work, especially with what’s going on with Climate change. A couple of my friends who are organizers talk to me every week about how Climate change is affecting all of us, especially in Africa. They would tell me how they were able to contact people in South Africa and how Climate change was affecting their country, especially last year, with the storms they were having during the Summer. The more I thought about it, it made me wonder how the Climate change affected Nigeria.
I do remember them also telling me about massive storms that were hitting Nigeria too. They even asked me if any of my family members were affected by those storms, and from what I know, no one in my family died..or was fully affected. I even remember them telling me about how China is actually helping them plant trees in Nigeria.
While online, I was looking through articles and I was looking at what Nigeria was facing during Climate change. According to Worldbank.org, Nigeria has faced more intense rainfalls due to “increasing climate variability,” along with increases in destroyed roads, landslides and land degradation, which also affects the soil. It’s also been a struggle for farmers who expect to grow crops from rain.
There have been attempts at fighting Climate change in Nigeria. In the same World Bank article, the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) launched in 2012, which initiates mechanisms to protect Nigeria from Climate change impacts. There is also an article about people who are investing in Nigeria’s environmental sustainability. I read about these different people like Dozie Wrap, who is an entrepreneur and founder of QuadLoop, a clean tech company that leverages electronic waste to develop solar lanterns and solar home systems. There is also Babatunde Adebayo, a solutions provider and co-founder of Eco-Circular, a startup which started in 2020, which focuses on climate mitigation. The startup saved 1 million trees from being chopped down. There is also Mariam Lawani, founder/CEO of Greenhill Recycling, a social enterprise urgently created to address the ongoing pollution crisis in Africa.
I’ll say it like this, if you are in some way using your work to fight climate change in Nigeria, it is much needed. Not just in Nigeria, but everywhere in Africa…and around the world. Like my friend says, it’s urgent for everyone to get involved.
Sources:
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-42091-8_125-1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/krownpr
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81280117
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