President Bola Tinubu has called for earnest efforts and action by citizens, stakeholders, institutions, and development partners to safeguard the environment and ensure a win-win transition to a prosperous and clean economic future for all. He stated this on the occasion of the World Environment Day marked every June 5.
The President called for a more proactive approach to protect the land and ecosystem through afforestation, water conservation, and the cessation of indiscriminate felling of trees. According to the President, 'to heal our world, we must begin by healing the land and its people'. The World Environment Day , established by the United Nations during the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972, is an important moment for raising awareness on environmental matters.
The UN Convention to Combat Desertification also says the number and duration of droughts have increased by 29 percent since 2000 and that without urgent action, droughts may affect over three-quarters of the world's population by 2050.
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