Climate Change and National Development in Nigeria: An Evaluation of Policy Responses from 2012 to 2022

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🔬研究者:Researchers studying climate policy in developing countries can learn from Nigeria's experience and the application of the Multiple Streams Framework.

🏛政策担当者:Policymakers can draw lessons on strengthening climate legislation and developing localized adaptation strategies.

Nigeria, like many nations, is increasingly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The 2012 nationwide flooding, which affected 30 of Nigeria’s 36 states, marked a turning point in the country’s climate discourse, bringing the issue into national focus. This paper explores the intersection of climate change and national development in Nigeria between 2012 and 2022, a decade characterised by heightened climate variability, recurring environmental disasters, and evolving policy responses. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that draws on environmental history, policy analysis, and socioeconomic data, the study investigates how climate change has affected key sectors such as agriculture, energy, health, and infrastructure. The study identifies 2012 as a pivotal year not only due to the scale of the flooding but also because of growing empirical evidence linking climate change to rising food insecurity, internal displacement, slowed economic growth, and the country's adoption of the National Climate Change Policy (NCCP). The study adopts a qualitative, interpretive methodology grounded in discourse analysis while applying a purposive data sampling method. The study relies on secondary data sources. The Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) was used to analyse how policy responses are shaped within Nigeria’s climate agenda. This paper aims to assess Nigeria’s climate governance and its broader implications for sustainable national development and thus recommends that the operationalisation of the Climate Change Act empower the National Council on Climate Change to enforce cross-sectoral compliance and also develop concrete localised adaptation models.

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