CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACTS ON THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENTS GOALS (MDGS) IN NIGERIA

The main aim of establishing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at the wake of 2000 was to better the life of the poorest poor by creating situations that will make them live in dignity and safety free of hunger, fear and oppression, especially in African countries. Most problems faced by man today are manmade. Man’s activities in and within the environment has greatly influenced the statistical distribution of weather patterns, thereby causing climate change. Climate change which is a global challenge with no country, region or tribe in exemption has its major cause established as a result of green house gases (GHGs) emissions. This paper accesses the impact of climate change on the achievement of MDGs over the past one decade and has suggested that except emissions/flaring of GHGs are reduced or eradicated, climate change will continue, MDGs will not be achieved and the people will suffer more.