In its efforts to championing the course against environmental injustice, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), on Tuesday, organised a one day Capacity Building Training on Climate Change, Gender, Adaptation and Mitigation for women.
INFO DAILY reports that the training was for women from the Niger Delta who are impacted by crude oil extraction.
In his welcome remarks, Executive Director, HOMEF, Nnimmo Bassey emphasised the need for everyone to come gathering and brainstorm on how best to solve the problems beginning from the grassroots.
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Bassey, who was represented by Joyce Brown, Program Director, HOMEF, while noting that women are the most impacted by climate change, said “we are here to teach them how best to copy with this climate change.”
“Climate change is a very serious issue that if urgent action is not taken against could destroy us. Many of the solutions for climate change are not the real solutions, rather they worsen the situation,” he said.
In her presentation titled, “Climate Change, Extractism and Agriculture”, Program Director, HOMEF, Joyce Brown lamented that “Small-scale fishers/community fishers are faced with several challenges.”
She said the challenges are caused by two major factors; extractive activities and climate change.
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“Fishing business is affected by fossil exploration/extractive activities and climate change in several ways.
“First and foremost, extractive activities pollute the water and kills fishes and other aquatic organisms thereby reducing the fish stocks.
“On the other hand climate change alters the physio-chemical conditions, resulting in higher sea levels, stratification, and changes to dissolved oxygen and ocean acidification as well as higher water temperatures.
“Climate-related changes in water temperature have an impact on the productivity of aquatic ecosystems and fish production, eventually affecting fishers’ livelihoods,” she added.
In his presentation, Stephen Oduware, “Local Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation and Adapt: Perspective from FishNet Alliance”, Stephen Oduware said “fishers and coastal community people are faced more with the impacts of climate change.
“We must stand in solidarity with fishers and rural dwellers to ensure that we proffer urgent and sustainable solutions to the impacts of climate change because if we don’t in the next few years we must have lost all our coastal environment and fish stocks to pollution from fossil extractions and climate change. We must build power from below (Grassroots People Power)…,” he said.
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