Our projects

Proposed ocean clean-up across the Lagoon and beaches in Lagos. This proposed project is still pending because of a lack of funds to address the huge environmental problem of plastics and other waste in our ocean. Funding to buy the equipment needed to clean up the lakes, beaches and other water bodies within Lagos State and its environs has been pending for a while now.

Our commitment to healthy, clean and well-managed oceans is not new, and it is a global call. It is a strategy for economic growth and global security and, more recently, for good ocean governance. Steady advances in sustainable fishing, marine spatial planning and renewable energy fit this future well and may inspire commitments from others.

“Forests are our planet’s green lung, but oceans are its blue heart. It is now up to all of us to keep this blue heart beating.”

Karmenu Vella, European Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

For more detail on this proposed project, email info@ccaeci.org.

This programme is ongoing. Its goal is to promote consistency: standardisation, messaging and education on plastics and waste labelling. It calls for “one message, one story, one system” in managing waste.

We have internationally recognised signs for road safety. We need similar signs on bins: an international “language” that anyone, anywhere, can understand. The aim is to make it easy for people to recycle, and to recycle properly, everywhere.

Please email info@ccaeci.org for more details.

Participatory Urban Environmental Clean-up is a youth exchange programme that explores modern ways of civic engagement in Nigerian cities, with a particular focus on tools of community action.

The programme focuses on grassroots activism in the urban context, responding both to global environmental clean-up challenges and to local practical concerns.

The grassroots groups under study use various methods to take part in city decision-making, such as waste management, beach clean-up, tree planting, inclusive planning and public awareness. All of them are united by one idea: that small-scale efforts can change the environment.

Take Part / Bring Change invites participants to look at successful bottom-up urban initiatives across the globe, to generate ideas, and to apply the skills and knowledge they gain in work with local communities, in making short videos, and in organising public awareness campaigns.

Areas of action

• Marine protected areas
• Climate change
• Sustainable fisheries
• Marine pollution
• Industrial pollution
• Deforestation
• Littering
• Tree planting