Environmental Sustainability & Resilience

The consequences of climate change in Nigeria are not distant or abstract. They are here: in flooded farmlands, in communities displaced by rising waters, in the slow desertification advancing across the north. They fall hardest on the people with the fewest resources to absorb them, and they are accelerating. Nigeria has the potential to shape Africa's environmental future, but only if its response is grounded in the realities of the people living at the edge of this crisis, not only in the ambitions of international frameworks. The Foundation's Environmental Sustainability and Resilience programme exists to hold that tension: advocating for policy that is ambitious at the national level and just at the community level, and ensuring that Nigeria's transition to a more sustainable future does not leave its most vulnerable citizens behind.

Award-winning documentaries translated into local languages and broadcast to over 45 million Nigerians elevated climate change to the forefront of national policy conversations. A social media campaign on Nigeria's post-oil future reached 1.5 million users. In the Niger Delta communities bearing the heaviest costs of the energy transition, the Foundation has been at the table: building the case that no transition is just if it leaves extractive communities behind.