World Environment Day: Ogun distributes 3,500 stoves to residents to combat climate change

In commemoration of the 2026 World Environment Day, the Ogun State authorities has distributed 3,500 cleanable cooking stoves to women successful the state.

The authorities besides announced the improvement and utilization of Refuse Derived Fuel, RDF, arsenic a sustainable waste-to-energy solution.

According to the government, the stoves trim indoor aerial pollution, chopped greenhouse state emissions and connection safer, healthier, and much sustainable cooking to amended the good being of women and children.

DAILY POST reports that the cleanable cooking stoves were provided done a collaboration betwixt the Federal Ministry of Environment and the Ogun State Government.

Speaking astatine this year’s solemnisation themed, ‘Inspired By Nature. For Climate. For Our Future’, held in  Abeokuta on Tuesday, Dr Iniobong Abiola-Awe, Director, Department of Climate Change, Federal Ministry of Environment, said globally, clime alteration remains a superior concern, arguing that accepted cooking methods origin indoor aerial pollution, wellness risks, deforestation and clime change.

Abiola-Awe who was represented by Mrs Dolapo John-Akhigbe, a main serviceman successful the ministry, added that the Federal Executive Council approved the National Clean Cooking Pol...