How Nigeria can fast-track green economy plan – Experts

For Nigeria to transit to cleaner energy usage, experts have advocated the need for a clear policy framework that will domesticate the usage of renewable energy.

They stated this over the weekend at a virtual event organised by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning with the theme ‘Roadmap to Nigeria’s COP: A Pragmatic Path to Net Zero Using the Green Economy, Blue Economy & Forestry’.

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In his submissions, Dr Anthony Nyong, Director of Climate Change and Green Growth Department, African Development Bank, believed that “Nigeria can address its NetZero mission by adopting models from other countries that promote green.”

This, he said, can be done by “Transitioning to more efficient energy sources that focus on industrialisation via scaling up the use of gas and blue hydrogen in the short to medium term and ultimately transitioning to green hydrogen as the primary industrial fuel by 2060.”

On his part, founder and CEO of AO Blue Economy & Energy Consulting, Mr Adekola Oyenuga, stated that “there is a need for Nigeria to take complementary actions needed to tackle ocean plastics that threaten lives, which is why plastics manufacturers, civil society organisations, coastal dwellers and government regulatory agencies need to collaborate to minimise and control plastics use.”