The Civil Society groups comprising of ActionAid Nigeria (AAN), Environmental Rights Action (ERA), Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation in Nigeria (SWOFON) and others have tasked the federal government to take the lead and urgently scale up her mitigation actions fir Nigeria to have a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 o C and preventing runaway climate change.
The Country Director of AAN Ene Obi, while briefing newsmen in Abuja in commemoration of the 2019 Global Climate strike said there is the need to focus on massive public financing of agroecology both at local, states and federal levels.
According to her, national policies and plans to strengthen adaptation and response to climate emergencies should urgently be implemented.
She statted the need to provide adequate public finance, including innovation sources to implement climate adaptation and mitigation plans and assist people recover from climate impacts.
Obi said ActionAid in the cause of her work in communities across Nigeria have seen first hand the realities of climate change.
She further called on the Nigerian government to take urgent and immediate action to ensure that all aspects of the lives of an average Nigerian is climate proofed.
Also, FCT Secretary of Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation in Nigeria (SWOFON) Nnanna Mercy said climate change is a great factor that should be managed as there are a lot of wastage in terms of climate change.
She said the federal government should step up in providing information dissemination in early warning system.
She lamented that their farms are been washed away as a result of flood adding that Agriculture is a moving trend and should be carried along.
Earlier, the Project Officer of the Environmental Right Action (ERA) Chinyere Opia urged the federal government for action and the need for us all to go green.
She said the country is investing more money in oil which is a very bad track record for the country.
