Low-Carbon Development: Opportunities for Nigeria by Raffaello Cervigni,John Allen Rogers,Max Henrion

By Raffaello Cervigni,John Allen Rogers,Max Henrion

the government of Nigeria has followed an bold technique to make Nigeria the world’s twentieth biggest economic system by way of 2020. maintaining this type of velocity of progress will entail speedy growth of the extent of job in key carbon-emitting sectors, similar to energy, oil and gasoline, agriculture and delivery. within the absence of rules to accompany financial progress with a discounted carbon foot-print, emissions of greenhouse gases may possibly greater than double within the subsequent twenty years.

This learn unearths that there are a number of suggestions for Nigeria to accomplish the improvement goals of imaginative and prescient 20:2020 and past, yet stabilizing emissions at 2010 degrees, and with household advantages within the order of two percentage of GDP. those merits comprise more cost-effective and extra various electrical energy resources; extra effective operation of the oil and fuel undefined; extra effective and weather –resilient agriculture; and higher shipping providers, leading to gas economies, larger air caliber, and diminished congestion. The learn outlines a number of activities that the government may perhaps adopt to facilitate the transition in the direction of a low carbon economic system, together with more suitable governance for weather motion, integration of weather attention within the Agriculture Transformation time table, promoting of strength potency courses, scale-up of low carbon applied sciences in strength iteration (such as renewables an mixed cycle gasoline turbines), and improve car gasoline efficiency.

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