COP27 Egypt: Buhari under pressure as calls for Climate Policies heightens amid incessant flooding

FCT, Abuja - As all road leads to Egypt next month for the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), Nigeria is at a crossroad to find a lasting solution to its lingering climate and environmental challenges.

Most recently, statistics were reeled out that at least 33 states out of the 36 were affected by flooding, leaving thousands homeless and hundreds dead.

On Saturday, October 29, a civil society organisation, FAME foundation, staged the 2022 Green Ball Walk for Climate in Nigeria's capital city Abuja.

The organisation, in its manifesto, said there was a need for the government to consider the importance of climate and environmental protection.

They stated that government at all levels should interface to ensure favourable policies are enacted and implemented to clamp down on climate and environmental challenges like flooding, oil spills, gas flaring, waste dumps, and other hazardous climate and environmental challenges.

While reflecting on the forthcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference, the organisation said Nigeria's delegates must make a case for Nigeria at the convergence.

They said: "We urge the delegates to the upcoming COP27 in Egypt to objectively examine the country's climate situation and make decisions that will benefit the country, particularly the most vulnerable and impacted.

"We anticipate that they will take actions that will improve Nigeria's climate and environmental decision."