Experts have contended that if a nation's environmental foundations are depleted, its economy may decline, its social fabric may deteriorate, and its political structure may even be destabilised. Therefore, they want sustainable climate resilient green development to be enshrined in the constitution of the country.
With the challenges of rising sea levels, which have culminated in about 50 erosion sites along the 835km coastline of Nigeria, desertification, declining forest resources and a myriad of other problems, the country's environmental headache is acute. Even with this array of problems, experts contend that the 1999 Constitution mentions the environment only once, in an ambiguous provision (Section 10). The said section did not make environmental rights justiceable.
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