Persistence of Environmental Challenges in Africa: the Role of International Agreements

Abstract

This study recognize why we have persistent environmental challenges in Africa and also to examine the role of international agreements in encountering environment challenges. The society have contributed to the problems that we are having in our environment. They are so many rules and regulations set aside to curb environment issues this is creating a funding gap to solve the problems but we are not following them. The aim of this study is to show how human impacts have affected the environment putting human development, security and human rights at a risk. The study examines how people are becoming aware of sustainable environmental problems like global warming and how they adjust to these problems by living sustainable lives meant to promote a healthy environment for not only themselves but also for the future generations. To acquire this, the study called for a mixed method approach, and the results showed that we have a big problem in the environment. The research questions are answered through an experiment entails distributing questionnaire to the respondents, which are randomly picked based on their clarification they are asked to comment environment issues. The responses received shows that there is a need to call the mankind to critically think about our impact and our effects on the environment because Unsustainable environment practice pose to increase threat to the earth climate ,water forests, over Population, deforestation, poverty in the world. The results show that human activities create impact to the environment and therefore, this creates a need for people to be more responsible and play a more active role while solving environmental issues. It is recommended that United Nations, governments, businesses and the NGOS, the stakeholders, environmental groups play a big role in environmental awareness to the public further research needs to be done to strengthen the policies, give huge fines to those who do not follow the rules and regulations that have been set up to curb environment challenges.