Climate change. Credit: Science Daily
The Nigerian Academy of Science has called on journalists to play a more active role in raising public awareness about climate change, describing the media as a critical partner in protecting public health and promoting climate resilience in the country.
The call was made on Thursday during a media roundtable organised by the academy in Lagos, where scientists and media experts urged greater collaboration in communicating the realities of climate change to Nigerians.
Delivering a keynote address titled, “Climate Change, Health, and the Nigerian Reality: Securing Our Climate Future for a Resilient Nigeria,” former Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics and Research) of the University of Lagos, Prof. Babajide Alo, said the conventional media possessed the reach and influence needed to educate citizens on the causes, consequences and solutions to climate change.
He stressed that climate change remained one of the country’s most pressing challenges, with desertification threatening livelihoods in the North, while rising sea levels and coastal erosion continued to endanger communities in the South.
