Environmental pollution and degradation of natural resources such as land, fresh and marine waters, forest and biodiversity threaten human livelihood and health. Wealth creation by exploiting natural resources such as in energy production and consumption, frequently has an environmental downside, which may in turn threaten human health and the quality of life, including food security. Environmental pollution from power generation and transmission, transportation and industrial production aggravate global warming. Deforestation arising from agricultural production leads to soil erosion and biodiversity loss. In addition, occasional catastrophic accidents associated with these development activities are widely recognized problems.

To realize our corporate vision, two broad ranging environmental outcomes were identified. These are borne out of the fact that inappropriate and inadequate regulation of our environment constitutes a major challenge to socio-economic development these outcomes represent what the Agency wants to happen in Nigeria.

a.            Improved quality of air, land, and water, as well as reduced biodiversity loss; and

b.            Effective compliance and environmental stewardship in sanitation and wastes control.

To explain how we are working towards these broad outcomes, we have described the key areas we aim to make progress in, over the coming years. This summary of key strategic and environmental activity will provide us with the benchmarks and milestones to review our progress.

We also recognize that NESREA is developing as an organization and we shall continue to build our capacity and capability and that of others.

This Corporate Strategic Plan identifies some of the topical environmental issues we will focus on and importantly, describe the programme that NESREA will carry out to build the requisite environmental capacity and capability across Nigeria, a fundamental building block of sustainable development.

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