ANALYSIS: Nigeria, climate change, conflict, and COVID. Why Buhari’s carbon emissions promise is inadequate

During fifty years from 1950 to 2000, progress in human development around the globe was unprecedented, and countries like Nigeria with the lowest human development indicators were making the fastest progress in health, education, and civil and political liberties.Food production outpaced population growthMore children, and particularly more girls, were enrolled in primary schoolIn the first two decades of this century, progress continued. Poverty reduction was unprecedented.

Nigeria, too, made progress during this period. According to the 2020 Human Development Report, between 2005 and 2019, life expectancy in Nigeria increased by 8.8 years, average years of schooling by 1.4 years and gross national income increased by about 59 percent.Extreme poverty is growing again: the increase in extreme poverty from 2019 to 2020– the year before COVID struck–is projected to be larger than at any time since the World Bank started tracking global poverty in a consistent manner.

Globally, climate change, it is estimated, will drive 68 million to 135 million into poverty by 2030. In Africa, the impact may be the worst of all. “From pastoralists travelling the Sahel to fishermen braving the seas, the story of West Africa is a story of climate migrants. As countries are experiencing rises in temperatures, erratic rainfall, flooding, and coastal erosion, Africans will face unprecedented challenges in the coming years.”

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