By Nneka Nwogwugwu
Some environmental stakeholders have started plans to develop top 10 net-zero measures project, to seek solution for climate change.
According to them, there is need to make more policies in addition to the Nationally Determined Contribution, NDCs, to get Nigeria to a net-zero emission by 2060.
President, Society for Planet and Prosperity, a nongovernmental organization in Nigeria, Professor Chukwumerije Okereke stated this at the TOP 10 Net-Zero stakeholders workshop held in Abuja the Nation’s capital.
The don said that “the Top 10 Net-Zero measures project is aimed at identifying 10 key steps and decisions that if taken in the next five years, would enable Nigeria to meet the government 2060 net-Zero objective while supporting the sustainable development of the country.”
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“We are going through all the policy documents the country has produced in the last 10 years, including the NDCs, the Energy Transition Plan, the Mid-term Development Plan, the Long-term Vision, and the National Recovery Plan…From all these documents we have identified several interesting measures that can help Nigeria, achieve its Long-term Climate goals.
“What we are now trying to do is to compile these measures so that anybody can have them in one sheet and rank them according to their potential to help us achieve the Net-Zero target and other social-economic benefits, like poverty alleviation, and job creation.”
According to him, there are certain measures the country can take to tackle Climate Change and also help build the country’s economy.
Professor Okereke explained that; “These measures would also help to achieve long-term goals by stopping Gas flaring and having alternative sources of energy from renewable, these are measures which would reduce the number of Emissions which we are putting into the atmospheres such as Organic Agriculture Farming, Climate Smart Agriculture, and also create job such as Afforestation and sustain development.”
“Such measures will require investments from government and the private sector, with international climate finance leveraging those domestic investments and lowering investment costs and reducing risks.”
He stated that the Top 10 Net-Zero project is conceived to inform and stimulate the Nigerian discourse on the actions to take before 2025 that can make a decisive difference.
