Women in Akwa Ibom State have lamented that climate change has caused them suffering.

They expressed fears about their fertility.

The women narrated their ordeal at the one day town hall meeting on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, held at the weekend in Uyo.

At the meeting, organised by a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre, the women listed the environmental and health disasters suffered by them because of climate change.

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The Executive Director of the NGO, Obonganwan Emem Okon, listed some effects of climate change to include loss of food security, natural disasters, vanishing of coastlines, human displacement, natural resources depletion, lack of clean and accessible water, among other devastating effects of climate change.

He said: “On gender and climate change, women are more negatively impacted as they make up majority of the world’s poor.

“Women suffer from shortages in household water consumption. Women in rural areas drink from polluted water.

“Studies conducted recently have shown that the fertility of women is nega.