Ex-lawmaker advocates intensive action against climate change
By Uche Anunne
A former member of the House Representatives and climate change advocate, Dr Sam Onuigbo, has called for concerted action to win the fight against climate change.
Onuigbo, who made the call at an interactive session with newsmen, urged government institutions, traditional rulers and all stakeholders to 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, 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 for the establishment of Compressed to Natural Gas centers for buses.
He also applauded Tinubu for 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.
On CoP28 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 and 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.
“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,“ Onuigbe said. (NAN)(www.nannews.ng)
Edited by Joseph Edeh
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