Ogun Govt Deploys Technology To Mitigate Effects Of Climate Change In School

The Permanent Secretary said the state government, in collaboration with Nestle Nigeria Plc., sponsored the training of 150 students on climate change development initiative, saying this really helped the state’s contingents during the last edition of the JETS competition to win several awards for converting the waste materials to valuable products, such as interlocking bricks.

Ogunleye noted that tree planting was included in the secondary school curriculum as a topic under Social Studies, as part of measures to mitigate the effects of climate change, adding that the school segment of the yearly planting of one million trees by the state’s Ministry of Forestry was carried out by students.

Meanwhile, in their separate presentations, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration), Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye (OOU), Prof. Charles Adekoya and Director, Institute of Vocational Training and Research in Agriculture, Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ogun State, Prof. Akiyode Olawunmi, suggested renewable energy through wind farms to mitigate effects of climate change, saying access to energy has positive impact on people’s health and the economy.

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