POTENTIALS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION IN NIGERIA

Abstract

All over the world over, climate change has become a burning issue and the consequences negatively impact public health. While Artificial Intelligence (AI) keeps on establishing itself in the current day-to-day lives, posing threats to our security and privacy, it also has potentials to solve complex technical problems such as climate change which has become a serious global threat requiring innovative solutions. Several studies on artificial intelligence and climate change, specifically on climate change mitigation, adaptation and prediction, were thoroughly reviewed.  The goal of this article is to review the causes and effects of climate change in addition to reviewing the potentials of AI as an instrument for climate change mitigation, adaptation and prediction in order to inspire appropriate policymaking in Nigeria. This article therefore highlights the potentials of AI in tackling the scourge of climate change, advocating critical policy issues in Nigeria that may be associated with its use in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.