Climate Change Mitigation Practices Implication to Public Health, Financial Management and Insurance

Abstract

Despite widespread concern about CC, studies indicate that many people including the teachers fail to engage properly in practices necessary to mitigate its effects. This study investigated climate change mitigation practices among secondary school teachers in Enugu State. The study adopted cross-sectional survey research design. The population for the study comprised of 8, 909 secondary school teachers in Enugu State. Multistage sampling procedure was utilized to select the sample size of 384 secondary school teachers for the study. The instruments used for data collection were Teachers’ Climate Change Mitigation Practices Questionnaire (TCCMPQ) structured by the researchers with cues from literature. The TCCMPQ yielded a reliability index of .74 using Cronbach Alpha. Research questions were answered using percentages, frequencies, means and standard deviations while the null hypothesis was tested using t-test at .05 level of significance. The study found that the extent of climate change mitigation practices by teachers was moderate ( x =2.26, SD=1.02), and that the extent of climate change mitigation practices by male teachers were low ( x =2.16, SD= 0.84) whereas the practices were moderate (x =2.33, SD= 1.06) among their female counterparts. The null hypotheses tested revealed that there was a significant difference in the mean scores for male teachers ( x =32.44, SD= 4.09) and female teachers ( x =34.95, SD= 4.37) at p<.05 (t= -3.963; p=.000). the study recommended among other things that Ministry of Education, international agencies and NGOs should always embark on creating climate change awareness to help in promoting climate actions among the teachers and the general public.