The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has pledged to plant 5.5 million trees within the next five years in Nigeria.
This, it said is its contribution to reducing the impact of climate change on society.
The President of the conference, Rev. Lucius Ugorji disclosed this while launching the tree-planting exercise at the Catholic Secretariat in Abuja on Thursday.
The project, tagged Green Revolution Campaign, is being spearheaded by Caritas Nigeria.
The cleric said that the conference has directed 50 dioceses of the church to plant 20,000 trees each.With this projection, over 1.1 million trees are planted every year, he said.
Similarly, the Executive Director, of Caritas Nigeria, Rev. Ft Uchechukwu Obodoechina expressed optimism that the intervention would reduce farmer-herder crises and other climate change problems facing humans and animals.
On its part, the National Agency for Great Green Wall commended the CBCN for the laudable initiative.
“By this tree planting today, the Catholic Caritas is raising its voice to mitigate the detrimental effects of climate change.
“We urge other religious institutions across the country to emulate the action, to ensure conducive environment and proper inculcation of sustainable environmental management in Nigeria,” it said through the agency’s Director, Planning, Policy and Coordination in the Agency, Mrs. Habibah Ibrahim.
