CLIMATE CHANGE AND LIVELIHOOD: THE TWO SIDES OF A COIN

The economic, social, cultural and physical environment of man is interrelated with climate change. This can be justified by several cities and people, particularly in developing countries facing alarming threats of climate change. Scholars affirmed that low or poor capacity to mitigate climate change in most developing cities would in long term swamp the natural and human capacity systems required to adapt to prevailing impacts of climate change. The impacts of climatic change on socio-economic activities have being a disturbing developmental issue for governments in developed and developing world. In Most countries climate change is a notable environmental factor that shape and re-shape sources of livelihoods. It has over time forced vast number of people into shackle of poverty through destruction of their means of livelihoods. This in recent time manifested in the lost of properties, lives, and destruction of infrastructural facilities. This paper unveiled the nexus between global climate change and livelihoods. It explored the concepts of livelihood and vulnerability in relation to climate change and its consequent impacts on livelihoods. The paper also examines the roles of governance towards adapting and mitigating the effects of climate change. It emphasized the need for improved infrastructural facilities, environmental education/ enhanced climate change awareness programme, improved and monitor physical planning activities, good/effective governance and establishment of climate change insurance scheme