TITLE:
Renewable Energy Transition: A Panacea to the Ravaging Effects of Climate Change in Nigeria
AUTHORS:
Usman Bello, Livingstone Udofia, Olayinka A. Ibitowa, Auwal M. Abdullahi, Ibrahim Sulaiman, Khuzaifah M. Yahuza
KEYWORDS:
Renewable Energy, Environment, Climate Change, Global Warming, and Sus-tainable Developments
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection,
Vol.9 No.12,
December
29,
2021
ABSTRACT: Environmental issues linked to climate change and
global warming have been at the centre stage of discussion all over the world,
considering their magnitude and the broader scope of consequences. These
catastrophic effects of greenhouse gases (GHG) such as CO2, CO,
water vapour, nitrous oxides, ozone, coupled
with other artificially induced chemicals like CFCs have shifted weather
patterns across the globe, thereby threatening the environment unpleasantly. However,
the effects of climate changes are more pronounced in Nigeria, due to an
unprecedented utilization of fossil-based fuels as the main energy source for
electricity, transportation, industrial, agricultural, and domestic purposes.
As a result, air pollution and land spills by oil led to the destruction of agricultural land and increasing heatwaves were left behind.
Consequently, these impacted negatively on the ecosystem by intimidating the
environment, counteracting biodiversity, decelerating economy and provoking human comfort, while simultaneously antagonizing
socio-economic growth and sustainable developments. Thus, an urgent need for the Nigerian government to redirect from fossil fuels to
renewables and intensify the campaign for afforestation
to support green conservation of biodiversity. These are considered plausible
measures for remediating the lingering energy failure and ravaging effects of
climate change. Therefore, this short review of communications X-rayed a few of the recent devasting incidences caused by
climate change, their impacts on various sectors of the economy and the need to
explore renewable energy resources in the country as a tool to
finding solutions to the effects of climate changes and global warming.