Nigeria is committed to implementing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its related treaties and agreements. In 2017, Nigeria ratified the Paris Agreement and embarked on an economic development drive that takes into consideration the reduction of its Greenhouse Gas (GHGs) emissions unconditionally by 20% and conditionally by 47% by 2030, as pledged in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) in line with the Paris Agreement of which Nigeria is a signatory.
Under the enhanced transparency framework, Parties to the Paris Agreement are required to submit Biennial Transparency Reports (BTR) every two years, with the first submission due by 31 December 2024.
BTR includes information on national inventory reports, progress towards NDCs, policies and measures, climate change impacts and adaptation, levels of financial, technology development and transfer and capacity-building support, capacity-building needs and areas of improvement.
To prepare Nigeria towards the submission of the BTR this year, NCCRP is equipping experts with capacity-building and technical support for preparing and reporting GHG inventories in the energy sector.
Traute Kother, NCCRP’s senior short-term expert in capacity building of stakeholders on greenhouse gas inventories in the energy sector in Nigeria said, “About 100 stakeholders are being trained on the 2006 IPCC guidelines and software, and the use of GHG inventory tools in the energy sector”.
“After all these trainings, we intend to use the software to calculate our GHG emissions, our level of consumption of fossil fuel in Nigeria and prepare our inventory. We are gaining the knowledge needed for the inventory preparation from the NCCRP”, Ikechukwu Okoro, an IPCC software trainee stated.
The stakeholders hope to independently develop data collection templates and tools and conduct a pilot application of GHG inventory in Nigeria’s Energy sector before December 2024.
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I am highly motivated about the initiative . Accordingly, I would like to express my concern and kin interest to be among those to enrolled to participate in the training program so as to equip with skills and knowledge to enable me cascade such to the community level.
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