Taraba Govt will educate citizens on climate change mitigation, says Aishat Barde

The Taraba State Commissioner of Environment and Climate Change, Hajia Aishat Barde, has said that the state government will educate the people of the State on the effects of climate change through awareness campaigns and sensitisation workshops.

Barde stated this in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital on Monday, adding that the Climate Change Unit in the State Ministry of Environment and Climate Change will be upgraded to the status of a department.

The Commissioner further added that the new Department of Climate Change would feature units such as Adaptation, Mitigation and Vulnerability.

Barde said, “To a considerable extent, the people of Taraba State are ignorant of climate change effects, causes and attendant dangers. Hence, I shall sensitise Tarabans through awareness campaigns and sensitisation workshops, while targeting the three arms of government, clearly spelling out their roles and responsibilities.

“I will involve youths, being the powerful agents of change, and women, as the most vulnerable to climate change impacts, in afforestation programmes and all other climate change related endeavours in the state.”

NatureNews.Africa recalls that Governor Agbu Kefas sworn in Hajia Aishat Barde as Commissioner of Environment and Climate Change in Taraba State on July 18, 2023.

It was gathered that, before her appointment as Commissioner, Barde started her career in the Department of Climate Change of the Federal Ministry of Environment, from where she was recently deployed to the National Council on Climate Change (NCCC), a council under the Presidency vested with the highest authority in mainstreaming climate change affairs in Nigeria.

Barde is a geologist, environmentalist, climate change and gender activist, as well as greenhouse gas waste expert.