By Bisola Adeyemo
The Climate and Sustainable Development Network has called on stakeholders and other relevant agencies to work jointly on issues related to climate change and other environmental challenges in Nigeria.
The Chairperson, Thematic Gender Group, Dr. Elizabeth Jeiyol, made the call on Wednesday, in an interview with newsmen in Abuja.
According to her, there is need to integrate a gender perspective on climate, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies.
“We must ensure solutions that integrate a gender perspective into climate, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes to defend, promote and protect women’s environmental human rights.
“We should build the resilience of women and girls; strengthen, prevent and respond to disaster risk reduction mechanism to invest and improve in gender-specific statistics and data to amplify the relationship between gender and climate.
“Today, we have the opportunity to call to action all stakeholders to put women and girls at the centre of planning and action to integrate gender perspectives that will shape national laws and policies.
“We also have the opportunity now to re-think, re-frame and re-allocate resources to benefit from the leadership of women and girls as environmental defenders and climate activists to guide our nation.
“Climate change is a threat multiplier. But women and especially young women, are solution multipliers,” she said.
