The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says it is working to support Federal Government’s strategies toward preventing and countering terrorism and violent extremism in the same way of tackling climate change.
The UN-Agency’s Outreach and Communications Officer, Sylvester Atere, in a statement said the Nigeria government was playing its part both in its policymaking and National Action Plan for preventing and countering violent extremism, and implementing the President’s plan in rebuilding the North-East.
Atere said that the 2009 UN Report on Climate Change had highlighted five main threats arising from climate change.
He listed the threats to include: vulnerability of food supplies and public health, the reversal of development gains; migration and internal unrest; statelessness and the loss of habitable territory; as well as international conflict over scarce resources.
He said that there also “threat minimizers” that could offset the potential for global unrest.
