President Muhammadu Buhari has restated Nigeria’s commitment
for a safer and healthier global climate.
He said measures include the elimination of kerosene
lighting by 2030, increase in use of buses for public transport and reduction
in burning of crop residues.
Buhari spoke on Friday during a virtual meeting, hosted by
United States President Joe Biden.
The party was the Major Economies Forum on Energy and
Climate Change (MEF).
The Nigerian leader recalled that the updated Nationally
Determined Contribution (NDC) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
was submitted to replace the interim contribution of May 27, 2021.
Buhari said it covers the waste sector which would
contribute to the reduction of Nigeria’s Greenhouse Gas emissions.
He confirmed that the government lowered the NDC from 45
percent to 47 percent conditionally, and 20 percent unconditionally below
business-as-usual.
Buhari said Nigeria is also seeking to deliver 20 percent
GreenHouse Gas emission reductions and enhanced removals equivalent to
approximately 74.2 Metric tons of Carbon Dioxide by 2030.
The President further mentioned ratification of the Kigali
Amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase out Hydro-fluoro-carbon emissions.
Buhari said his administration approved Nigeria’s
Sustainable Energy for All Action Agenda in 2016, which has a target of almost
tripling generation capacity in the next decade, to reach a total of 30
Gigawatt by 2030.
Thirty percent is expected to be generated from renewable
resources, with almost half of this provided by medium and large hydro.
“The Clean Energy Transport Scheme in major Nigerian cities
involves the introduction of compressed natural gas for buses in public
transport.
“Nigeria is aware that its heavy dependence on fossil fuel
makes the country vulnerable in a world that has a target to reduce or even
eliminate fossil fuel”, he added.
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