Okereke advocates govt, stakeholder collaboration on just transition
The Director Centre for Climate Change and Development Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu Alike, Prof. Chukwumerije Okereke, has advocated close collaboration and synergy among the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), government and other key stakeholders to ensure a just transition to green energy delivery in Nigeria.…
CCCD AEFUNAI Pledges Partnership with Youth Initiatives on climate education for 5 years
Chinedu Nwasum The Director of Centre for Climate Change and Development Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike, Prof. Chukwumerije Okereke has promised to partner with youth led climate change and environmental organisations to conduct massive climate education programmes that would touch every part of the country for the next 5…
Okereke Outlines Key Steps To Scaling Up Climate Implementation In Nigeria
The President, Society for Planet and Prosperity (SPP) and Director, Centre of Climate Change and Development, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ebonyi State, Nigeria (AEFUNAI), Professor Chukwumerije Okereke, was guest speaker in a webinar hosted by the Association of Sustainability Professionals of Nigeria (ASPN) on February 24 as part of the…
Nigeria’s eyes turn to the UK as climate summit draws closer
Nigeria and the UK have had a troubled history. Nearly a hundred years of resource extraction and colonialism has left its mark on both our countries. Now, Nigeria and the UK are bound by the Commonwealth, an alliance which has been described as a ‘family’ by British Prime Minister Boris…
Assessment of implementation of Nigeria’s original NDC and new ambition intent
Nigeria was among the 190 countries that submitted their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) to the UNFCCC in the run up to the COP meeting in Paris in 2015. Nigeria’s INDC has since been subsequently converted into the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) following the country’s ratification of the Paris Agreement…
Youths have right to question, interrogate, shape direction of climate policy – Okereke
The International Climate Change Development Initiative (ICCDI) recently had Professor Chukwumerije Okereke, Director, Centre for Climate Change and Development of the Alex Ekwueme Federal University, as their host in an enriching tweet chat on the role of young people in achieving the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The ICCDI is youth-led voice…
COVID-19 has worsened educational inequality in Nigeria, Boma Nkiruka Okereke
Educational inequality is a major challenge in the path to development and economic prosperity in Nigeria. Typically, the children of the poor suffer from a lack of access to decent schools, qualified and experienced teachers, books, and education-enhancing infrastructure and technologies while the children of the rich get the best…
‘Nigeria should urgently draft a national green growth plan’
Prof. Chukwumerije Okereke is the Director, Centre for Climate Change and Development, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ebonyi State and Coordinating Lead Author, United Nations Inter- governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He spoke to Property & Environment Editor, CHINEDUM UWAEGBULAM on Nigeria’s Nationally Determined Contribution and how to attain a…
Okereke: COVID-19 Presents Opportunity to End Gas Flaring
Prof. Chukwumerije Okereke who is the Director, Centre for Climate Change and Development at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike as well as a visiting professor at the University of Reading. He’s equally the Coordinating Lead Author of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In this interview, he says…