Afforestation Key To Taming Climate Change — Leadership Newspaper

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A group, Climate Action Advocates, has called for engagement of citizens in afforestation activities to re generate green environments so as to mitigate the effects of climate change.

The group, comprised of Anvil Research Center and the Coalition of Associations for Leadership, Peace, Empowerment and Development (CALPED), made the call in a communiqué issued at the end of a one-day sensitization workshop in Kaduna.

“Afforestation and agroforestry has been identified as the major entry points to combat climate change and its impact on the environment.

“Planting trees as the government of Kaduna State had begun is a step in the right direction that non-state actors can engage,” it said.

The workshop which involved non state actors on environmental sustainability in Kaduna State, advised the state government to return its Department of Forestry, currently in the Ministry of Agriculture, to the Environment Ministry for effectiveness.

The Communique, made available to the…



Source: Leadership Newspaper