Green Economy and Sustainable Development as an Antidote to the Threat of Global Warming

The study focused on green economy as an antidote to global warming in Nigeria. All facts and materials were taken from secondary sources mainly literature review.Various measures of green economy in combating global warming were explored. It was discovered that for Nigeria to experience meaningful sustainable development, green economy must be adopted in all facets of the economy be it industrial, manufacturing, agricultural, transportation, mining and other sectors of the economy, all the materials used in this study point towards the human induced global warming, infact, globally man has been seen as a principal actor in the issue of global warming and various literatures have testified to this. Based on this, recommendations were proffered that government should sensitize its populace on the benefits of greenish economy. There should be awareness and readiness to start the green initiative and private sectors need to join hands with government to sustain greenish economy.