Ready-to-Lead Africa (RLA) has delivered waste bins to some business premises in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, as a way to mark this year’s International Day for Climate Action.
Development Diaries reports that the ecological waste bins were donated in furtherance of action against climate change.
International Climate Change Day is commemorated globally on 24 October as a global response to the challenge of climate change.
The RLA President, Godbless Otubure, while leading a delegation to present the items, said the action was also in furtherance of the organisation’s corporate social responsibility to its host community.
‘Today, we are donating two 240-litre waste bins to Bassan Plaza as part of our commitment to taking action on climate change’, he said.
‘We will be handing it over to the management for proper usage, as we intend to provide more to other business premises in the coming days.
‘We cannot have a thriving democracy in Nigeria when the environment is in peril.
‘We have witnessed heat waves, floods, and various natural disasters across the world, but no matter how democratic a country is, if there is no environment for leaders to practice democracy, such democracy will not succeed.
‘Part of the threat to democracy in the world is climate change. So for us, this is an opportunity to correct it and be a part of the driving force that helps the world as we protect and promote our democracy in Nigeria’.
Nigeria and other developing nations are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change because of their high temperatures, limited ability to adapt, and lack of early warning systems.
Increases in temperature, erratic rainfall, rising sea levels and flooding, drought and desertification, land degradation, an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events, an impact on freshwater supplies, and a decline in biodiversity are all signs of Nigeria’s changing climate.
In many parts of Nigeria, the length and intensity of the rains have risen, resulting in significant runoff and flooding.
Source: NAN
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