Residents Perception on Climate Change Mitigation Using Trees in Jimeta Metropolitan Area Adamawa State, Nigeria

This study examined the residents’ perception on the possibility of reducing the global warming using trees in Jimeta Metropolitan Area Adamawa state, Nigeria. The marginal error of 5% adopted from Saunder et al (1997) was used to select 383 household respondents based on the population of 266,422. Proportional factor was used to select the respondents for each ward. Simple random sampling was used to distribute the questionnaire to the selected respondents. Questionnaire was used in obtaining information from the residents on the possibility of reducing global warming using trees. Chi-Square (X2 ) was also used to test the association between respondent’s socio-economic activities and their perceptions on reducing the global warming using trees. Descriptive statistics such as tables, frequencies and percentages were used in analyzing the questionnaire. The results show that, 82% of the respondents agreed that trees help in reducing the global warming. The X2 results showed that, there is association between the respondent’s educational level and their perceptions on reducing the global warming using trees. The X2 results also showed that there is no association between respondent’s age and their level of perception on the possibility of reducing the global warming using trees. Government, Non- Governmental Organizations and individual should therefore be encouraged to embark on tree planting to mitigate climate change and restore degraded areas. Efforts should also be geared towards enlightenment of the peoples on the benefits of trees in offsetting CO2 from the atmosphere. A strong long-term political commitment by the government to prevent deforestation, to manage and protect the remaining trees is required as a high priority.