Vice chancellor, Osun State University, Professor Odunayo Adebooye has assured of the institution’s readiness to adopt any recommendation meant to pursue corporate mandate of teaching, research and community service.
Professor Adebooye gave the assurance while declaring open the third international sustainable development dialogue organised by the Global Affairs and Sustainability Development Institute (GASDI) in conjunction with UNIOSUN, the African Network of Environmental Humanities, (ANEH) and Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society (RCC), Munich Germany, held recently at the institution.
He stressed that, UNIOSUN is favourably disposed to collaborations on issues that are geared towards providing solutions to any identified global and local challenges, and charged scholars to proffer solutions to growing concerns about the human and natural disruptions of the ecosystem especially as it affects the African continent.
Represented by his deputy, Professor Anthony Kola-Olusanya, the VC noted that the concerted efforts of scholars globally have led to the identification of key issues that had constituted a body of knowledge, with growing scholarly interest, efforts and output arising from each.
“The issues involved include, but are not limited to: pollution, global warming, overpopulation, ocean acidification, deforestation, ozone layer depletion, among others.”
In his own submission, the director of GASDI, regretted that the Africa continent is being faced with challenges of environmental transformation, climate change, despite its richness in natural and human resources.
He however harped on the need for Africans “to harness knowledge that is available in the public space and develop political will and leverage on the diplomatic skills as a people to be able to address our challenges.”
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