CLIMATE CHANGE AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA: A TICKING TIME BOMB ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Global warming and climate change is a recurrent and controversial issue in international politics, especially in the study of global environmental politics.  It has affected negatively on developed countries but more severe on developing nations where Africa, Asia, Latin America and Caribbean belong. This paper examines climate change as ticking time bomb, as it hinders sustainable development and conflict management in developing nations. This study adopted historical research design; the researcher used secondary types of data gathered from text books, internet prints, journals, newspapers, and libraries. The regime theory propounded by Krasner and Oral. R Young was adopted as a framework. The study made the following findings: climate change is caused by the activities of the industrialized countries; nevertheless, they are not culpable of it. Nigeria and other developing nations has done little or nothing to abate the impacts of global climate change, rather they have just been merely signatories to series of international global treaties on climate change. Also global warming is a neocolonial syndrome and a way to dictate developmental strands for third world countries. The research therefore recommends that there should be mainstreaming climate change into economic frameworks and sectarian policies in order to ensure integrated adaptation responses.