Clean energy: FG urged to invest in efficient technologies

The federal government has been urged to promote a clean energy economy through investment in more efficient energy technologies and processes.
 This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the 10th Annual National Stakeholders’ Forum by the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA).
 The communiqué recommends that NESREA should promote strategies for the adoption of modern technologies that promote fuel efficiency and emissions reduction.
 While urging the federal government to provide adequate funds for equipment and vehicles for compliance monitoring and enforcement, NESREA it also implored to implement all ongoing programmes on air quality, including the National Vehicular Emission Control Programme (NVECP) and emissions from power generating sets.
 “The federal government should build capacity for national monitoring of emissions from both stationary and mobile sources, including the development and management of national emission inventories for the major air pollutants and greenhouse gasses,” the communiqué states.
Industries and businesses were also implored to adopt the best available environmentally sustainable practices and technologies, including cleaner production, and to shun the use of obsolete and polluting technologies. 
 However, universities and similar institutions, according to the communiqué, should encourage research on air quality, including modeling and forecasting and disseminate such research findings to relevant stakeholders.
 NESREA, in collaboration with key stakeholders, should carry out robust public awareness programmes aimed at ensuring positive attitudinal change among the citizenry and encourage networking and exchange of information, knowledge and experience at state, national and international levels, the forum recommended.