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International climate expert and leading advocate for climate action in Nigeria, Professor Chukwumerije Okereke has organized a climate education and tree planting exercise in Enugu State. The state tree planting exercise is one of the programmes mapped out for the implementation of the International Visitors’ Leadership Programme (IVLP) impact award…

Message to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu – “Don’t neglect the economic consequences/importance of Climate Change” ~ Prof. Chukwumerije Okereke

The Africa Climate Summit has brought together African leaders, with a goal of defining a shared vision for green development on the continent of 1.4 billion people ahead of the COP28 meeting in Dubai later this year. With climate change eating away at Africa’s GDP, a point highlighted by the…

Prof Chukwumerije Okereke, an internationally recognised climate expert and an awardee of the International The two-day event that held from August 15 to 16, 2023, focused on “Climate Change: Science and Policy” on the first day and on the second day the focus was on “Effective Climate change communication”. The…

Africa Policy Research Institute (APRI) and the Centre for Climate Change & Development, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike Nigeria (CCCD- AEFUNAI), in collaboration with the Department of Climate Change (DCC), Federal Ministry of Environment Nigeria held a workshop to discuss and share knowledge about climate change adaptation in Nigeria. The…

The Director, Centre for Climate Change and Development Alex Ekwueme Federal University (AE-FUNAI), Prof. Chukwumerije Okereke, has expressed dismay over the negligence of the local people in intervention efforts on climate change adaptation and mitigation in Nigeria. Prof. Okereke, who is also a Senior non-resident Fellow at APRI,  stated this…

Prof Chukwumerije Okereke in partnership with Society for Planet Prosperity, Center for Climate Change and Development AE-FUNAI and Eco-Cyclers is implementing the International Visitors Leadership Program Impact Award Project (IVLP) project funded by the United States Department of State. The aim of the project is to create awareness about the…

The Society for Planet and Prosperity (SPP) in collaboration with the Center for Climate Change and Development, Alex Ekwueme University, Ebonyi State launched a nation-wide survey on sub national action  on climate change. The survey aims to collect stakeholders’ perspectives on the impact of climate change on Nigeria’s 36 states and…

An expert in Climate Change and Development, Prof. Chukwumerije Okereke, has hailed the contributions of Nigerian academics in shaping the country’s long term climate strategy. Okereke disclosed this in an interview in Lagos during the stakeholder consultation on Nigeria’s Long-Term Low Emission Development Strategy (LT-LEDS). He said that, for the…

An expert in climate change and development, Prof. Chukwumerije Okereke, has called on the administration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu to prioritise climate change. Okereke made the appeal in an interview on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Lagos. The don, who is the Director, Centre for Climate Change and Development, Alex…