Beautiful Plants For Your Interior
Pillar: Advocacy & Policy
Status: Active (advocacy)
Rivers State Environmental, Sustainability & Climate Bill
Plenty of organisations plant trees; few work on the laws that decide whether a city stays green.
The research
Greening has been attempted before
Port Harcourt's greening has been attempted before. Research conducted by the Foundation into the governance of urban greening in Port Harcourt found that past initiatives, however well-intentioned, repeatedly met the same two obstacles:
1
No enabling policy framework
Nothing in law set out how urban greening should be supported and sustained.
2
No dedicated counterpart agency
No agency was responsible for the urban environment.
Programmes rose and fell with administrations; trees were planted and lost; and no law required anyone to do otherwise.
Our response
How this shapes the Foundation's work
That finding shapes the Foundation's work today. Even as we develop the Green Port Harcourt Initiative, we recognise that an enabling policy framework is key to its success, and to the success of every effort concerning the Rivers State environment.
The Foundation is therefore supporting the development of environmental, sustainability, and climate legislation for Rivers State.
The protection of the environment should be anchored in law and institutions, not goodwill.