TY  - JOUR
T1  - Between Fantacy and Fancy: Nigeria’s Mirage Journey to Industrialised State Status in the Post-COP19 Era of Climate Change
AU - Amusan, Lere 
JO  - Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 1
SP  - 42
EP  - 52
PY  - 2014
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1683-8831
DO  - pjssci.2014.42.52
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=pjssci.2014.42.52
KW  - Nigeria
KW  -climate change
KW  -COP19
KW  -Vision 20-2020
KW  -green fund
AB  - By 2020, Nigeria hopes to be one of the most industrialised countries in the 
  international system as if Rome was built in a day. Corruption, the politics 
  of delay by domestic and international contractors, kick backs by political 
  parties and the military ingovernment that left little room for transparency 
  are some of the issues that have affected the proper implementation of various 
  development plans put in place in Nigeria since, 1960. The climate change crises 
  that the international system is contending with put the much-publicised Vision 
  20-2020 under stress. Lack of government readiness, global financial problems 
  and the concretisation of the Western inspired national strategy to climate 
  change will militate against climate smart. The Western dominated technical 
  committee on Measuring, Reporting and Verifying (MRV) does not encourage the 
  realisation of the vision. Drought, flood, destabilisation of the ecosystem 
  and the destruction of biodiversity are the fallouts of climate change. The 
  implications of these are diversion of annual budget to address immediate needs 
  in the form of disaster risk management, mitigation and adaptation. Conflicts 
  between herders and crop farmers are a daily occurrence in various parts of 
  the country. As much as there is a call for ‘Cow Rights’, the Mbororo 
  Fulanis who hardly recognise territorial integrity in the country will always 
  be at war with their hosts, the effects of which make peace a luxury in Nigeria. 
  As, long as the Nigerian government is prevaricating on environmental law, the 
  Vision 20-2020 will remain a pipe dream.
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