The Lagos State authorities has expressed its intention and readiness to collaborate with traders within the areas of municipal strong waste-to-energy, waste-to-wealth, and liquid waste administration.
The state’s Commissioner for the Surroundings and Water Sources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this whereas collaborating as a panellist on the Harvard College Local weather Motion Week with the theme: “Rising Seas, Resilient Communities, Local weather Adaptation Methods in West Africa.”
In response to him, the present administration in Lagos State has developed a local weather adaptation plan and a local weather resilience plan that encapsulate its imaginative and prescient and insurance policies.
He defined that the state has already carried out two pre-feasibility research on waste-to-energy and wastewater initiatives to display its dedication.
He added that with a inhabitants of over 20 million producing 13,000 metric tonnes of waste every day, the state is adopting a sustainable, climate-friendly strategy that treats waste as a useful resource.
The Commissioner mentioned Lagos, as a coastal metropolis, is uncovered to the consequences of local weather change, sea stage rise, heavy rainfall, and extreme warmth, which lead to flash flooding when tidal lock prevents water from discharging into its pure channels.
He famous that, as a accountable authorities, the state has put in place resilient drainage infrastructure and continues to push again in opposition to people who select to construct on floodplains and drainage setbacks.
“We additionally prosecute those that wilfully destroy the ecosystem. We’re doing our bit. We additionally inform residents to desist from dumping municipal waste within the drainage. It’s a recipe for flooding,” he mentioned.
Wahab lamented that aerial geographic data has proven Lagos’ authentic landmass of three,577 sq. m has expanded to 4,050 sq. m because of the large reclamation of wetlands and lagoon water our bodies for actual property building.
He harassed that the state has been exercising its authorized powers to test the excesses related to such human exercise by insisting that anybody aspiring to embark on reclamation should receive Environmental Affect Evaluation (EIA) approval.
He added that such purposes should additionally embrace a drainage grasp plan to display how stormwater from the reclamation will likely be correctly discharged into water our bodies.
