The 2021 Global Outbreak Risk report recently published by the Economic Forum affirms that issues bordering on environment such as climate change and cost of diversity are among the top long term risk that the world is likely to face in the next ten years. Addressing the 14th Meeting of National Council of Environment in Abuja, Minister of Environment, Mohammad Abubakar said the report is a clarion call to immediately take transformative action on the emerging situations as it relates to the eco system. He explained that desert encroachment, deforestation, flooding, erosion, pollution among other environmental challenges if not urgently attended to, will adversely affect the county. The Minister also listed the Ogoni land clean up among other environmental projects the government is seriously implementing in the country. The theme for the 14th National Council of Environment meeting is “Managing Emerging Environmental Challenges: Need for Strategic Approach to Sustainable Development in Covid 19 Era and Beyond”.
