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Addressing the Negative Impacts of Climate Change: A Quest for Environmental Justice in Nigeria offers a rigorous legal and socio-economic analysis of climate change and its disproportionate effects on vulnerable communities in Nigeria. Drawing on doctrinal research, the book interrogates international and domestic legal frameworks, including the UNFCCC, Paris Agreement, and Nigeria’s environmental laws, while exposing critical gaps in enforcement, access to justice, and constitutional protection of environmental rights. With particular attention to the Niger Delta and Northern Nigeria, the author demonstrates how climate change exacerbates poverty, insecurity, health risks, and economic inequality. The book advances a compelling argument for centring environmental justice in climate governance and proposes practical, people-focused reforms for sustainable development, policy accountability, and judicial engagement in Nigeria.