Okwe Obi Abuja
An Elder Statesman, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, and other environmental experts were disturbed by the catastrophic effects of climate change. They teamed up to combat the catastrophe.
This was disclosed by Iwuanyanwu at a meeting organized by the Global Coalition for Sustainable Environment yesterday in Abuja.
In a signed communique, he stated that contact had been established with groups of similar interest in the United States of America. He also mentioned that they had established contacts with groups in Australia, Canada, Australia, Canada, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
He stated that the meeting adopted an eco-friendly environment in harmony with human activities on sustainable basis.
While elaborating on the mission, the Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), said “advocacy and creating awareness on the human activities that promote climate change and its negative effects on the environment in other to strike a delicate balance between environmental exploitation by the present generation and preservation for the next generation to ensure friendlier ecosystem and sustainable environment while driving maximum benefits from our endowments.”
He added that members agreed to “assemble engineers, Scientists and other professionals with the commitment and passion for creating awareness on the diverse ills on the environment for the benefit of present and future generations;
“Promote mitigation measures that would reduce the activities that impact negatively on the three dimensions of the environment (i.e air, water and land);
“Create solutions and promote remedial measures that will protect and also improve and preserve the quality of the environment leading to enhanced health and wellbeing of living organisms;
“Promote policies, projects and activities that would restore ecosystems, protect and improve the livelihoods of people and animals that depend on them;
“Promote best sanitation, hygiene and general public health practices and thus prevent widespread transmission of diseases, as this will ensure healthy populace who can further preserve the quality of environment by averting the contamination and degradation of air, water, and land resources.”
