The West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) is calling on governments in the sub-region to increase investments and resources in their fight against climate change.

According to the interim Executive Director of WASCAL, Professor Kehinde Ogunjobi, governments must support infrastructure development of data on climate science.

Speaking at the inception workshop of its CICLES project, Professor Kehinde Ogunjobi, called on governments to increase investments being made into the fight against climate change.

“Our governments need to wake up and support development of infrastructure for data densification in our region. Our national services are doing their best but there are still huge gaps”, he said.

Regional Thematic Coordinator of WASCAL, Dr Seyni Salack, also said measures put in place to fight climate change is woefully inadequate.

The Customized and Integrated Climate and Environmental services project (CICLES) by WASCAL seeks to strengthen risk-prone nations’ adaptive capacity and resilience to global warming and climate change through the co-development of an end to end climate services.

The meeting brought together stakeholders from different West African countries and abroad, private sector players, non-government organisations, government agencies to investigate the challenges hindering the success of the fight against climate change.

The services will focus on areas such as climate action policy and data services.

WASCAL is focused on investigating the challenges hindering the fight against climate change to protect the environment.

The main goal of CICLES is to promote sustainable development while improving livelihoods in West Africa.