As the UNO and UNESCO marks the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI), with this year’s theme as “Ensuring Access to Environmental Information in the Digital Age” RIDD not only joins in marking this day, but also employs this opportunity to highlight the place of education in promoting Environmental Information and it’s inherent impact on some of the questions that are of existential importance to us for now and the future.

RIDD would want to encourage policy makers at all levels of governance, policy making, and education to place environmental policy and access to information on the environment on sectors and questions like agriculture and food security, housing, housing collapse, floods, erosion, rising water levels, aviation, health etc, as critical to sustaining our civilization and survival of the human race.

If access to Environmental information becomes a key component of school subjects through existing subjects, the next generation of leaders would be better equipped to explore the environment in a sustainable manner, thereby ensuring the next generation has a healthy or even healthier environment to live in and promote our civilisation.

Written by
Chukwu C. Ikechukwu