Nigeria: Saving the Environment Through Ecosystem Preservation

The impact of our changing climate on human systems is the rise in the incidence and severity of climate change related disasters.

After decades of skepticism about global warming and its after effects, the world has come face to face with the realities of that danger, particularly in fragile tropical landscapes where majority of the world's poorest people live on peasant agriculture.

"The challenge of climate change is unlikely to be gender neutral as it increases the risk to the most vulnerable and less empowered social groups", Dr. Ilo Okoye has said.

Okoye said this while presenting a paper at the workshop on environmental issues in Agricultural/Agro Industrial and Rural Development in Abuja.

The don said that the United Nations (UN) 2008 General Assembly Proceedings, has warned that global warming could cost the world up to $20 trillion over the next 20 to 25 years in order to place the world on a markedly different and sustainable energy trajectory.