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As a
membership organization, Nigeria Environmental Study/Action Team (NEST) has the overall goal of acting in concert
with an active nationwide membership to sensitize and empower Nigerians on
issues of the environment and sustainable development, through the
dissemination of factual information, training on skills acquisition and
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NEST Chairman Welcomes
you
Welcome to NEST
interactive website. Our aim is to reach all that have an interest in
environment and sustainable development issues, and in particular those
anxious to learn the perspectives on these issues projected by an
organization like ours in the developing world. Information in the site
will be updated periodically, but will always contain sufficient matter
about NEST for context.
The current edition is intended to draw attention to the potentials of
NEST. Please feel free to send in observations and criticisms for
improving the site. Happy viewing. - David Okali |
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| Recent News
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| CCAA PROJECT EXHIBITION IN UMUAHIA 16 DEC. 2011 |
The CCAA Project held an exhibition workshop showcasing products and designs made from the improved Akwete fabric,on friday 16th December 2011 at Gado Hotel and Gardens, Umuahia, Abia state, Nigeria.
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| CCASTR now available online |
You can now download the latest version of CCASTR
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| NASPA-CCN now available for download |
You can now download the latest version of NASPA-CCN
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| HOW NIGERIA’S CLIMATE OUTLOOK IS INDUCING EXTREME RAINFALL |
The cost in future of the emerging climate scenario for Lagos is too expensive to wait. As the loss for Nigeria is projected to be between 2 per cent and 11 per cent of Nigeria’s GDP by 2020, rising to between 6 per cent and 30 per cent by the year 2050. In naira terms this loss is equivalent to between N15 trillion and N69 trillion, writes Prof. Chinedum Nwajiuba. He says that bolder urban renewal; redesign and re-conceptualisation will take Lagos out of its recent quagmire.
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| Upcoming Events |
| LIST OF UPCOMING EVENTS |
These BNRCC events are scheduled as follows:
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| Project Update |
| Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA)/International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Project |
Inciting Rural-Urban interactions to cope with climate change: An Adaptation Experiment in Aba and its region, South -Eastern Nigeria.
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| Building Nigeria's Response to Climate Change (BNRCC) Project |
It has been determined that global climate change will have a strong impact on Nigeria, and West Africa more generally, particularly in the areas of agriculture, land use, energy and water resources. Nigeria’s long term development priority of poverty reduction will be severely constrained, if insufficient attention is paid to the current and future impacts of climate change.
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Nigeria-Canada Climate Change Capacity Development Project
END OF PROJECT COMMUNIQUE |
Human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels for transportation and energy
production, are increasing the concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the
atmosphere – trapping heat and causing global warming, climate change and sea
level rise.
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Fact sheets on climate
change in Nigeria
:: Repercussions
for Health and Human Settlements Download [pdf 36kb]
:: Repercussions
For Water Resources, Wetlands, And Freshwater Ecology Download [pdf 34.8kb]
:: Repercussions for Energy, Industry, Commerce, and Financial Services Download [pdf 40kb]
:: Repercussions for Agriculture, Food Security, Land Degradation, Forestry and Biodiversity Download [pdf 45kb]
:: Repercussions for Coastal Zone and Marine Ecosystems Download [pdf 36kb] |
:: Climate change updates...
:: End of project Communiqué [pdf 17kb]
The Canada-Nigeria Climate Change Capacity Development Project (CN-CCCDP)
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stakeholders workshop on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Download [138kb PDF]
:: Regional
climate modelling and Climate scenarios development in Support of
vulnerability and Adaptation Download [231kb PDF]
:: Review of GHG
Emissions Inventories, Mitigation Assessments and the Framework for the
Implementation of a National Emissions Data System in Nigeria (Synthesis
Report) Download [79kb PDF]
:: Climate change and
Nigeria: A guide for policy makers Download [133kb PDF]
::Executive
summary of Five multi-sector surveys on Nigeria’s vulnerability and
Adaptation to climate change Download [109kb PDF] |
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