NiMet advocates climate information for national planning

The Director-General/CEO of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), Professor Mansur Bako Matazu has advised that climate and weather information be taken as one key weapon to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) initiative. Prof. Bako made this call in a press statement signed by the NiMet General Manager, Muntari Yusuf Ibrahim after the keynote address he delivered at the 61st annual conference of Nigeria geographers in Obafemi Awolowo University, Osun state. .

  

 Bako in the press statement stated that adopting, implementation, and utilization of weather and climate information for national planning is one among the several solutions to achieving the objectives of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) initiative

  According to the statement “NiMet’s services cut across almost all the socio-economic sectors of our economy and are aimed at generating climate-smart decision-making which in turn contributes to the reduction of poverty among the citizenry’’ 

The statement pointed NiMet always engages stakeholders with the seasonal climate prediction on agriculture for food security and sustainable development adding that the agency carried out downscaling activities where the forecast for the agricultural sector are cascaded to last-mile through the roving seminar, workshop, and field operation. .

 
Also, Professor Adamu Tanko, President of the geographers Association in the statement pointed out that the theme of the programme: Geography and the Sustainable Development Goals, was strategically chosen to showcase the study of the environment.