As the world faces intense drought, storms, heat waves, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and warming oceans, the Development of Educational Action Network (DEAN) has prescribed innovative climate education design as the best short and long-term measure to fight climate change.
Climate change is threatening the essential ingredients of good health such as clean air, safe drinking water and other things necessary for people’s livelihoods in communities,
The executive director of DEAN, Semire Michael made the call on Wednesday during a press conference in Abuja that there is no other excellent tool to change the world than education.
Michael said the mandate of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Paris Agreement), to which Nigeria is a signatory to, listed six areas that should be utilized to engage the public in climate change solutions; of which education is the first mechanism mentioned in article 6,
According to him, the IPCC reports have also supported climate education as a climate response to strengthen societal responses to climate change.
Michael said climate education should be mainstream in our educational curriculum to enable students to understand that climate is not just a threat but a reality resulting in social, economic and environmental instability in a country that is already vulnerable. “Our contextualized resources for the classroom include all these issues and possible solutions so that future generation in Nigeria can be climate champions”
