Nigeria
Climate change impacts
It takes only 34 days for the average Canadian to produce as much greenhouse gases as the average Nigerian will produce over the course of the entire year. Therefore, February 3rd (34 days into the year) is "Climate Change Impacts in Nigeria Day."
The impact of climate change in Nigeria is expected to be vast. In Nigeria, climate change “means that some stable ecosystems such as the Sahel Savanna may become vulnerable because warming will reinforce existing patterns of water scarcity and increasing the risk of drought in Nigeria and indeed most countries in West Africa.”
For more information on how climate change will impact Human settlements and health; Water resources, wetlands, and freshwater ecosystems; Energy, industry, commerce, and financial services; agriculture, food security, land degradation, forestry, and biodiversity; and Coastal zone and marine ecosystems, visit Building Nigeria's Response To Climate Change website.
Story
"'Our mangroves that provide protection from wind and rain storms causing our fishes to produce well and which act as buffers to erosion are being destroyed rapidly. Now we cannot predict our seasons anymore and this has led to poor crop yields. We attribute all these to 'Iphen öbhina’.' (Which means climate change in Iko language) said Chief Nelson, the community head of Iko- Esai in Akampa, Nigeria.”
Read the rest of Chief Nelson’s story from Building Nigeria’s Response to Climate Change.
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