Climate Awareness: Towards an Informed Climate-smart Community
The ocean provides many benefits, such as the air we breathe — over half of the world’s oxygen is derived from the ocean and “absorbs 50 times more carbon dioxide than our atmosphere”. In addition, it helps regulate the Climate — Covering 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface, the ocean transports heat from the equator to the poles, regulating our climate and weather patterns.
It is a means of transportation.
It is a means of recreation.
It is a food source — the ocean provides more than just seafood. But since the 1950s, plastic waste has become a direct threat to marine species.
It is estimated that up to 13 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean each year.
Plastic pollution is an environmental injustice to vulnerable communities, threatening the lives of residents who depend on the ocean for work. Therefore, keeping plastic out or refusing single-use plastic one person and community at a time can go a long way in saving the ocean.
On the 5th of May 2021, Revamp Rave Network Launched an awareness campaign on climate change and the importance of climate knowledge to coastal communities to raise more awareness to the general public and coastal residents who are more susceptible.
The campaign, which was a part of the Kadara Waste Reduction project 2021, was to enlighten more people for change and action to preserve ocean life for the prosperity of wildlife conservation.
The United Nations Association of Nigeria featured the campaign to reach over 100 people online through the United Nations Information Centre as a resource for their various material publications for 2022.
Indeed, climate change is a threat that affects ocean wealth and destroys both infrastructures and human wellbeing. It not only widens existing inequality but hinders the attainment of a sustainable, fair and inclusive future.
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Check out our previous post to know more about the Kadara Waste Reduction Project 2021 — https://rravenetwork.medium.com/community-sensitisation-on-climate-change-action-and-the-environment-c356496a3bc2
