Clean Air Task Force (CATF), USA in collaboration with Carbon-Limits Nigeria and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) is currently building capacity on fugitive methane emission in the Nigeria oil and gas sector.
As required under the Paris Agreement, each country is expected to update its NDC every five (5) years. Nigeria as a party to the agreement worked on revising her NDC target and CLN was actively involved in the project.
CLN worked with the Federal Ministry of Environment (FMEnv.) to develop an NDC registry for storing information on mitigation and adaptation projects across the seven (7) NDC sectors to allow for easy tracking of NDC progress in each sector.
CLN is working with the Federal Ministry of Environment (FENv.), Department of Climate Change (DCC), and a team of ICAT international consultants to support the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) geared towards building capacities to understand and apply tools necessary to Measure, Report and Verify (MRV) Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission and the impact of mitigation actions, as well as to strengthen the country’s institutional arrangements and processes for MRV policies and actions.
CLN worked together with CL Oslo in supporting Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) in carrying out a feasibility study to select the most suitable country to host independent methane measurement campaigns in the African region.
CLN carried out a study with the Federal Ministry of Environment on the assessment of carbon pricing initiatives in Nigeria to support the Nigeria Government in identifying appropriate..