Nigeria, June 25 -- The initiative, which aims to empower young people to champion environmental sustainability, equipped the students with skills to mobilize their peers and implement climate resilience projects within their schools and communities.

Speaking at the two-day program on Thursday, YUGI Executive Director, Mr. Edayi Edison, said the project seeks to establish 1,000 climate change associations in secondary schools nationwide and facilitate the planting and nurturing of at least 10,000 trees.

Edison warned that climate change, driven by human activities and changing weather patterns, continues to threaten livelihoods through declining agricultural productivity, drying water sources, deforestation, and environmental degradati...