Climate Leadership Fellowship
Climate change impact is ravaging the world. In Nigeria, its impacts have led to severe cases of drought, desertification, flooding, and disruption in rainfall patterns. These impacts adversely affect man’s health, wellbeing and environment. Agricultural yields have been heavily affected causing high poverty rate in the north. Extreme flooding, disease spread through contaminated water is reported in the south.
Benefits of the program
Provide expert training on climate change advocacy in relation to clean energy transition and leadership to promote national climate resilience.
• Expose young people to the various opportunities within the renewable energy sector.
• To establish Green Clubs across two hundred secondary schools in Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones
• To train and mentor two hundred young Nigerians as climate change educators in year
• To train 20000 secondary school students as climate champions through the fellows Adopt a School and Teach climate change in year 1