Environmental Right Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria has urged youths in the Niger Delta region to resist energy colonialism by embracing renewable energy technologies.
ERA/FoEN executive director, Godwin Uyi Ojo, who spoke at the weekend in Port Harcourt, during the 2019 youth environmental camp meeting organised by the organisation, challenged youths to see environmental protection as their responsibility. Ojo said: “Young people should have a problem solving mentality to poverty and climate change as opportunities to generate ideas, conduct advocacy, creation of jobs, renewable energy solutions in mini-grids and off-grid systems for rural electrification, solid waste management that emphasises reuse, reduce and recycle waste in all our productive and consumptive activities.”
He explained the importance of the training programme which was the maiden edition saying that youths are usually mostly impacted and carry the burden in the communities that are in the frontline of extractive activities and climate change impacts.