Worried by the growing environmental degradation, climate
change issues in Nigeria and the need to mitigate the effects, experts from
various institutions in the country and abroad have concluded plans to fashion
out the way forward.
The experts will be meeting at a
three-day forum at the Hall of Mercy, Federal University of Technology, (FUTO),
Owerri, the Imo state capital, next week.
The Director, FUTO's Institute of Erosion
Studies and the Chairman, Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of the event, Prof.
Cosmas Ahiarakwem, told The Guardian that the programme, will be the first
international conference, to be held and organized on the subjects by the
Institute.
According to Prof Ahiarakwem, the
theme of the event: "Effective Watershed Management for Environmental
Hazard Control/Mitigation in Nigeria", would address issues of flooding,
erosion, climate change and agriculture and food security core, the subjects
that had been synthesized into 18 well-researched topics to be delivered by the
experts at the workshop/conference.
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