Stakeholders in the environmental sector have identified climate change as a major threat to economic livelihood and security in the Niger Delta.
The assertion was made at the Policy Roundtable on Advancing Climate Resilience, Climate-Sensitive Peacebuilding and Human Security, organized by Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta, PIND, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The roundtable featured government agencies, environmentalists, civil society organizations and representatives of climate-vulnerable communities, among others.
The stakeholders noted that flooding, coastal erosion and livelihood losses are deepening human insecurity and resource-based tensions across the region.
Speaking at the event, PIND’s Peacebuilding Programme Manager, Dr David Udofia, who represented the Executive Director, Mr. Sam Ogbemi Daibo, said climate change should no longer be treated as just an environmental concern. According to him, climate change has become a major factor in poverty and insecurity.
“Climate change is increasingly a livelihood, peace and human-security challenge in the Niger Delta.
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