Adapting to Climate Change Through Green Governance in Uganda: The Role of Community Opinion Leaders
摘要
The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), mainly goal eleven 11, requires the need for ensuring green metropolitan regions in order to make people’s communities more diverse, secure, adaptable, and ecologically sound. Nevertheless, climatic challenges remain a subject of discussion in Africa and majorly in the Ugandan context. This chapter analyses the contribution of green governance and community opinion leaders towards adapting to climate change in Uganda. The study aims at understanding how community opinion leaders ensure adaptation to climate change through green governance practices; also, it aims at exploring the challenges that affect the community opinion leaders in ensuring green governance, and what can be done to ensure adaptation to climate change in Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA)? The study utilizes a narrative style and gathers data from field officers (enforcement team) in Kampala. The study findings reveal that opinion leaders educate residents about waste management, tree planting, and environmental behaviors. They achieve this by holding radio talk shows and also use social media campaigns to provide information about climate adaption strategies. Results further reveal that they encourage community-based climate action by promoting reforestation, assure urban greening programs, such as tree planting to minimize heat waves, and restore degraded wetlands to reduce flooding. However, leaders encounter opposition from the natives and this jeopardizes the implementation of activities. This study can be of value in shaping sustainable climate change strategies that can be utilized across the globe if leaders incorporate green strategies in environmental management.