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National Policies on Climate

Change are not sufficient enough

given the way the world is going”

- Hon. Sam

Hon, let us get to know you will then find that the areas where they use to go freely
I am Representative Sam Ifeanyi Onuigbo, I represent to fish, these areas have been totally devastated and
the good people of the great Ikunanu,Umuahia north/ when this coastal erosion is going on sometimes we do
south Federal constituency am from Abia State. not know because it is coming gradually but steadily to
destroy and damage that part of the earth. In my own
The issue of climate change has been a great concern community in Abia State, when I was growing up we
to all nations and Nigeria not excluded, can you please did not have so many gully erosion sites, but overtime
throw more light on what climate change is all about? now, we have gully erosion sites everywhere. In my
You must have heard a lot of people trying to describe constituency alone which comprises three Local Gov-
the challenges of climate change around emissions ernment Areas, we have over forty active erosion sites,
when they talk about green gas emissions, that de- am talking about the ones that are calling for immediate
structs the atmosphere and create problems that leads attention not the small ones that the communities can
to the rise in sea level, increase sunlight, flood and all take charge of. So climate change has come in differ-
those negative things that come out of our misuse of ent forms, if you listen to what is happening around the
the environment and create problems. And the world is other parts of the world like United States and Latin
conscious of it, but the challenge is whether the world is America and so on, we also remember or recall that it
taking enough actions to stop or to even reduce to the has also affected individuals and communities in very
barest minimum some of these challenges that I have serious manners, if you talk of the hurricanes that are
enumerated. coming these days, they are too frequent and they are
And these things have truly impacted negatively on the too strong, you talk about the number of times that you
wellbeing of the people. For instance, if you talk about see flood happening in India, in so many other coun-
the effects of climate change, how the rise in sea level tries including Nigeria, then you know that what we are
has affected a fisherman, say in the riverine area, you talking about is real, it s not manufactured.
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