It recommended that relevant government agencies be empowered and mandated to provide needed information to combat deteriorating environmental health quality in cities which is a leading cause of incurable diseases in the country.
To that effect, the Society proposed the need for new priorities and coordinated efforts based on new technologies to track local and global diseases.
It also canvassed for the enhancement of meteorology and its applications to carry out more specific and coordinated research on the effect of weather on the rate of transmission and severity if the incidence of COVID-19 with particular emphasis on Nigeria is to be reduced.
The conference advocated the need for inter disciplinary collaboration to build coordinated strategies aimed at improving meteorological information and early warning systems to ameliorate and prevent unfavourable impacts of weather and climate related natural diseases.
Addressing participants at the Conference, the president of the Society and Director, West Africa Science Service Centre in Climate Change and Adapted Land Use, WASCAL domiciled at the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, Professor Debo Adeyewa said “in a rapidly changing world and the weather system, the Society will continue to proffer solutions to challenges in the weather and climate and other related issues confronting the nation.”
Adeyewa said his members will also use their expertise to proffer solutions in time like this when Nigeria and the world is facing the challenges of COVID-19, variability in weather and climate.
He urged participants to embrace a courageous vision of qualitative service beyond mere academic exercise.
