The Lagos state government has stressed the need for conscious and collective effort to tackle global warming as it implores residents to refrain from activities that could undermine fight against climate change.
Permanent Secretary, Belinda Aderonke, who represented Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, spoke at an event organised by leading Environmental Sustainability Organizations in Nigeria, FABE International Foundation.
Speaking at the event which took place at Nigerian Conservation Foundation Headquarters, Lekki Peninsula, Lagos, on Friday 19 March, 2021, Belinda commends FABE for its initiatives which instil a sense of responsibility on environmental issues in young people.
Addressing the gathering, she admonished the participants of the initiative not to “despise the days of little beginnings”, noting that starting small isn’t the goal but ending strong.
While noting that she loved the strategy employed by FABE to tackle climate change through schools which is the root, she revealed that schools are capable of engendering change in mindset.
“Recently in repositioning the Ministry of Environment, we recreated the Environmental Education Unit to tackle the debt of problems we have. For being the economic hub, we know what the issues of waste management will be in Lagos. A time will come when the landfill sites would not be able to take the waste we are generating if we do nothing.
“The issues of protecting the environment involve individual participation and ethical responsibility”, she stated.
She noted that she wasn’t at the event to speak policy but enjoin people to come up with practicable, adaptative and mitigating strategies to fight climate change which is more harmful than COVID due to bioaccumulation and biomagnification. She urged not only schools but everyone to be responsible for making sure they desist from waste burning but encourage waste sorting. When you burn waste, you’re perceiving over 20 noxious gases and they bioaccumulate, thereby giving us cardiovascular diseases.
“There’s a contribution that you need to do and it is for your good. We want to change the issues of climate, want to change poverty but there’s a lot of laziness in the land. Not because President Buhari has said so but because of the issues around us that we need to use our hands for that we are not doing.
“We need to use our hands. Planting around the house removes indoor pollution, it reduces sick building syndrome, they sequester the carbon dioxide and give you fresh oxygen which is rejuvenating and reinvigorating to the body “, she averred.
She serenaded and thrilled both the old and young to various environmental sanitation, protection, conservation and sustainability song.
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