Ifeoma Malo

Ifeoma Malo is a Nigerian lawyer working in international development. Her work focuses on clean energy technologies, and energy access and climate change mitigation and adaptation across Africa.

Quotes

• Sustainability is important in building not just projects and programs but also building the human capital needed to sustain them. For sustainability to be achieved, when you build solid systems and also invest in the human resource needed to run those systems, it has very positive economic consequences on the global economy.
  • Her opinion in an interview
• They must be innovative, proactive, and resilient and must leverage on any opportunity that comes their way to grow.
  • Her opinion in an interview
• Our businesses and bottom lines would be better and the overall growth and development of Nigeria and that of Africa rests on designing and collectively defining an industry where everyone is playing a part to move things forward.
  • Her opinion in an interview with ESI Africa
• Ready access to electricity will reduce youth unemployment and increase productivity.
  • Her opinion at the global campaign group Power for all
• If you look at the floods that happened last year, two years ago in Nigeria, there was a lot of displacement of people, mainly people who were poor, and people who had nowhere to go.
• People had babies on their backs, their belongings on their heads, and they were carrying two or three children and trying to get to safety. That is the archetype of what happens when there is a climate disaster when there are rising seas, floods, and rising temperatures.
• Climate change is exacerbated by poverty, and this sort of poverty mostly wears a woman’s face.
• And so, when we’re thinking of mitigation and adaptation measures, it’s about how we stop the encroachment of climate in everyday life. But then, how do we also create normalcy for people who are trying to adapt to the changing climate in many ways
  • Ifeoma Malo talks about climate change