Climate change is causing more frequent and severe flooding, droughts, storms and heat waves as average global temperature keeps rising to new records, Africa and Africans are to suffer the most.
On the 14th of April 2021, Puregreen Africa Initiative (PGAI) took its message of tree planting as a tool in the fight against climate change in Africa to the Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Amassoma, Bayelsa State.
PGAI, official representative Mr. Omez M. Godspower made the presentation of a Five Years Collaboration Program to the Head of Department, Crop and Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Niger Delta University (NDU) Dr. Azawei Alamene. The program which includes the planting of Eight Thousand Five Hundred and Fifty Trees in Yenagoa and its metropolis, and carrying out public awareness program on climate change adaptation, mitigation and increasing environmental consciousness in Bayelsa State.
The program is an offshoot of the mother program of PGAI’s Fifty Eight Thousand Five Hundred Trees for Niger Delta against climate change. Eight Thousand Five Hundred and Fifty Trees for every state across the Niger Delta Region as the region suffers most and remains the most vulnerable to climate change. The program was applauded by senior staffs of the department and called for economic trees to be infused in the planting exercises.
PGAI seeks to earnestly contribute its own quota in the fight against climate change in Bayelsa State by engaging relevant stakeholders in the state for the success of her program which will help in combating climate change in Bayelsa State and also enhance the environmental profile of both the Institution (NDU) and Bayelsa State as environmental champions.
Puregreen Africa Initiative (PGAI) is a NGO that is passionate about mitigating the effect of climate change in Africa through remedial environmental action of planting trees as a tool or means in mitigating the effects of climate change in Africa. We believe that trees are natural carbon sink and have huge potentials for carbon drawdown, planting trees is a nature based solution to climate change mitigation in Africa.