Abstract
The effect of climate change is felt everywhere and of concern to all around the world, even as solution is not in sight to it. The consequences have been felt more in some parts of the globe than others. Incidentally, this has weighed more on the under-developed nations of the world than the developed. Climate change is prevalent everywhere in Nigeria from the north where it has aggravated desert encroachment on the savannah belt, to the south where it has engendered ocean surge in the coastal areas, erosion in many other parts. These have resulted in colossal loss of lives and damage to properties. The government has been virtually helpless, or comatose, with an array of legislations which are best described as beautiful charters on the country’s law books. This paper will examine some specific decisions of major conferences on this issue such as the Kyoto Protocol, among others, and see how these have taken care of the interests of these under-developed nations. It will review the roles and contributions of these nations in the scheme of things and critically examine the effectiveness of the proposed adaptation fund. It will conclude with recommendations.
Highlights
Since over the past 250 years, humans have been artificially raising the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at an ever-increasing rate
Efforts at containing the threats of climate change on the international plane started with the 1972 Stockholm Conference, which culminated in the setting up of the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP
There is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, which was formed in 1992 as countries joined an international treaty to cooperatively consider what they could do to limit average global temperature increases (UNFCCC), and to set an overall framework for intergovernmental efforts to tackle the challenge posed by climate change
Summary
Since over the past 250 years, humans have been artificially raising the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at an ever-increasing rate. The wanton damage to the atmosphere is being caused by both industrialized states and the developing states alike The former cause air pollution through industrial and domestic heating plants, waste incinerators, nuclear plants, marine pollution through incessant dumping and discharges into the ocean of industrial and toxic wastes, either directly or through rivers flowing into the ocean of land-based industrial pollution, soil pollution by dumping dangerous wastes (UNEP Assessment Report on Ogoniland 2011) in third world countries (Note 1). Developing countries on their own contribute to pollution resulting in climate change by way of rapid population growth, increasing industrialization, massive urbanization which necessitates deforestation and chronic poverty, and use of obsolete industrial plants
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