Reinvent for better ecosystem, earth, experts advise globe

• Groups canvass afforestation, harmony, transformation

As the world, yesterday, marked the World Environment Day (WED), experts expressed concerns that climate change and people’s poor attitude to the environment wreck the ecosystem, and biodiversity and threaten the survival of man on earth. 
 

Over 70 per cent of Nigerians rely on generators for power supply in homes and businesses. 

The most populous black nation’s pledge to international environmental treaties towards reducing net-zero carbon emissions by 2060 and other frameworks to limit greenhouse gas emissions and mainstream climate change action are not been actively auctioned. 
  
Environmentalists, scholars and other stakeholders urged environmental sustainability. 

President, of the Nigerian Environmental Society (NES), Dr. Dorothy Bassey, said with the level of environmental devastation and climate change impacts, it was evident that “we are already in a climate crisis stage.” 

Stating that this year’s topic was apt, he regretted that some people still think they have another place to go, once the earth is gone. 
 
According to her, man’s activities have gradually taken society to a place of destroying the planet. 
 
Bassey noted that efforts to advance the Nigerian environment were going.

Associate Research Professor, Climate Change Studies and Environmental Education, Lagos State University, (LASU), Ahovi Michael, said the environment had not been comfortable, owing to observable evidence of environmental degradation. 
 
Michael, who works at the ivory tower’s Centre for Environmental Studies and Sustainable Development (CESSED), pointed out the need to shift focus towards being more proactive by “setting our priorities right and mapping out a minimum of one year vision to achieve certain goals.” 

THIS is even as global e-commerce and direct sales leader, QNET, called for accelerated action against climate change.

Regional General Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa, Biram Fall, who made the appeal at an event to mark the 2022 WED, said his company, in partnership with EcoMatcher, had planted 3,000 trees to check global warming.

He observed that much of Africa had warmed by more than one degree Celsius since 1901, with an increase in heatwaves and hot days.

In the drought-prone Sub-Saharan African nations, the number of undernourished people has increased by 45.6 per cent since 2012, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

BESIDES, the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) celebrated the grassroots and those whose lives and livelihoods have been gravely impacted by neo-colonial forces.

In a statement, yesterday, the group noted that the “WED 2022 theme resonated transformative changes in our policies and choices to live sustainably in harmony with nature, besides full understanding that the planet is the only home, as others are finite.”

The Director, Nnimmo Bassey, lamented that at a time when people should check the exploitation of natural ecosystems and wasteful consumption, “the world is rather investing in militarisation, warfare and destruction.”

ALSO yesterday, Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Organisation sought a greener environment, its conservation and safeguard against destruction for safer habitation.

The organisation, in a statement, said this year’s theme called for collective transformative action on a global scale to celebrate, protect and restore the mother earth.

To the Muslim leader, AbdulRoqib Akinyemi, “climate change and the greenhouse effect have become a global concern in recent years. The need to plant more trees has been recognised as part of the 2030 sustainable development goals to better our world.”