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October 24, 2019
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says it isworking to support Federal Government’s strategies toward preventing andcountering terrorism and violent extremism in the same way of tackling climatechange.
The UN-Agency’s Outreach and Communications Officer,Sylvester Atere, in a statement said the Nigeria government was playing itspart both in its policymaking and National Action Plan for preventing andcountering violent extremism, and implementing the President’s plan inrebuilding the North-East.
Atere said that the 2009 UN Report on Climate Change hadhighlighted five main threats arising from climate change.
He listed the threats to include: vulnerability of foodsupplies and public health, the reversal of development gains; migration andinternal unrest; statelessness and the loss of habitable territory; as well asinternational conflict over scarce resources.
He said that there also “threat minimizers” that couldoffset the potential for global unrest.