Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Originally published October 17, 2012.
As political leaders in the US stall on climate change, vulnerable communities across the world are struggling to deal with the effects of rising temperatures and weather disruptions. One of them is Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos, one of the fastest growing cities in the world. Officials are trying to respond to the rapidly growing population with more development, including in coastal areas, by building a new city in the ocean. But environments say these measures have made the city even more vulnerable to rising sea levels and ocean surges, which have already destroyed communities and claimed lives. FSRN’s Sam Olukoya reports from Lagos.
