Climate Change and Implication for Senior Secondary School Financial Accounting Curriculum Development in Nigeria

Climate change as a new reality is the latest challenge to sustainable human development.  The scientific evidence is clear: climate change is likely to have negative impacts on efforts to achieve Nigeria’s development objectives, including the targets set out in Nigeria Vision 20:2020 and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).  The paper tries to look at financial accounting as an indispensible part of every human endeavour which curriculum development in this climate change era should be considered a priority.  It also looked at different definitions of financial accounting, and its purpose, curriculum development and agencies involved, climate change and causes, climate change impacts in Nigeria.  Education and climate change.  Impacts of climate change on financial accounting curriculum development at secondary school level and finally recommended programmes that will enhance its development.

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