Climate Change and Challenges of Environmental Sustanability in Lagos State, Nigeria

Abstract

The rate at which the climate is changing is a constant challenge to issues of environmental sustainability in Nigeria and other nations of the world. This is because, a sustainable development is not possible when the resources (natural and artificial) and other valuable elements of the city are constantly been challenged without an appropriate breeding space to replenish. This paper through an elucidating literature review examines the issues of climate change and its attendant problems. It assesses some anthropogenic factors threatening sustainability in the built environment such as urbanization, deforestation, population explosion, industrialization, global warming  and investigates into the challenges which climate change pose to the sustenance of environmental sustainability in Lagos state, Nigeria. The paper identifies the need to widen professional orientation and training of relevant stakeholders, a constant and regular re-orientation programme for citizens against wrong environmental attitude and mass campaign for awareness on issues of climate change in order to cope with these challenges.

Keywords: Anthropogenic, climate change challenges, environmental attitude, environmental sustainability, global warming