The National Council on Environment has advocated a shift from the resource extraction and consumption-based economy of Nigeria to a model that will focus on reusing, repairing, refurbishing and recycling materials to boost growth.
The council said such an environmentally friendly model will guarantee the de-carbonization and mitigation of climate change for long term sustainability.
The council comprising of Commissioners of Environment from the 36 states of Nigeria, the Ministry of Environment, its MDAs and parastatals, arrived at the resolution during a meeting on “Managing Emerging Environmental Challenges: Need for Strategic Approach to Sustainable Development in Covid-19 Era and Beyond”.
A communiqué at the end of the meeting tasked the federal government to ensure its environmental management and protection effort empowers vulnerable groups and creates jobs through waste to wealth projects, afforestation and reforestation as well as agro-based, smart agriculture.
Minister tasks stakeholders on rejuvenation of soil to transform food system
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By Joseph Erunke & Alice Ekpang
ABUJA– MINISTER of Environment, Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar, Friday, urged stakeholders to tackle pertinent issues of climate smart agriculture and agro ecological practices that will aid rejuvenation of soils to transform the food system.
Abubakar,in a keynote address he delivered at the meeting of the 14th National Council on Environment,NCE,in Abuja, said there was “an urgent need to transform our food system which has been the major factor in the issue of loss of biodiversity, fresh water and deforestation with its attendant effects on climate change.”