The Countrywide Council on Weather Modify (NCCC) on Friday, April 12, 2024, at the UN Property in Abuja signed a Memorandum of Comprehension (MoU) with the Worldwide Labour Organisation (ILO), the United Nations Industrial Growth Organisation (UNIDO), and the United Nations Enhancement Programme (UNDP) to establish a strategic Just Transition Roadmap (JTR) for Nigeria.
The progress of a JTR is mentioned to mark a key minute in Nigeria’s attempts to changeover to a carbon-neutral potential. The signing of the Just Changeover Roadmap sets the phase for a venture and report that will guidebook Nigeria’s effort and hard work to make sure that climate and energy justice are put at the centre of the country’s energy to transition absent from fossil fuels in accordance with nationwide and world-wide weather ambitions.
The ILO’s Country Director, represented by Mr Steven Agugua, famous in his opening remarks that the changeover to a fewer carbon-intense economic system is unavoidable because world governments have established net zero emissions targets, which a lot of are performing really hard to satisfy. He observed that failure to get ready for the future would not only jeopardise national improvement but will also depart staff and some susceptible sectors stranded.
He famous that discovering techniques to make the changeover just and equitable is the ILO’s primary strategic objective. He mentioned this target has informed ILO’s exertion to develop a just changeover framework for Nigeria, which is a fossil gas-dependent economic system. The JTR, he stated, is an critical action towards achieving the ILO’s purpose of helping vulnerable sectors and employees in the transition to a decarbonised future.
Responding, the Director Typical (DG) of the NCCC, Dr Salisu Dahiru, acknowledged that Nigeria is in a tricky scenario about climate transform and the world-wide energy transition. The DG mentioned Nigeria’s one of a kind challenge lies in the fact that one hand, the state is quite vulnerable to climate transform, and the other hand, remarkably depended on oil and fuel as countrywide supply of profits. He reported that this distinctive predicament phone calls for the will need to come across means to make the changeover to a sustainable electricity foreseeable future fair to all.
This, he explained, necessitates a comprehensive understanding of the risks to numerous sectors and articulating considerate paths to realize the transition in approaches that do not endanger Nigeria’s long-term prosperity. He said it is to this conclusion that the Commission initiated the JTR with the global organisations to make sure that the region articulates approaches to make certain that inexperienced changeover is fair and equitable without leaving Nigeria powering.
The DG expressed self confidence that the Centre for Local weather Transform and Enhancement at Alex Ekwueme Federal College (CCCD-AEFUNAI), which will be leading the improvement of the JTR, will do a very good work of supplying pathways for Nigeria centered on national financial and sociotechnical conditions.
Continuing, the DG reported that Nigeria has no preference but to take part in the world wide decarbonisation attempts. However, he noted that the governing administration has a obligation to take part in means that protected its lengthy-time period strategic interests. He stated the Federal Authorities, in collaboration with its worldwide companions, recognises the great importance of supporting personnel, ladies, and folks with disabilities who are probably to deal with greater dangers because of the intention of phasing out fossil fuels.
He expressed confidence that CCCD-AEFUNAI, led by Professor Chukwumerije Okereke, a renowned weather coverage scholar, has the team to deliver the just transition roadmap.
In response, Professor Emmanuel Oladipo, a renowned scholar and Professorial Fellow at CCCD-AEFUNAI who led the staff for the MoU signing function, expressed gratitude to the NCCC and other global partners for the opportunity to create a just transition. He reported that setting up the framework is a essential nationwide endeavour in the shift to a long run with decreased carbon emissions.
He pledged that the CCCD crew would deliver a roadmap that the place could use to program strategies for lowering the carbon depth of their economic pursuits in ways that supports the sectors and populations that are susceptible to the transition. He concluded that the just changeover roadmap is an possibility to establish back improved and lay seem principles of equity in all transitions that go away no a person at the rear of.
Some of the other dignitaries that were provides in the MoU signing ceremony include: Crew Lead, Surroundings and Strength, UNDP Nigeria, Muyiwa Odele the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr. Mohammed Mallick Tumble and National Programme Coordinator, Atmosphere and Strength, UNIDO, Oluyomi Banjo.
Other individuals contain Head of the Directorate of Vitality, Infrastructure and Transportation, NCCC, Michael Ivenso Just Transition Roadmap Venture Coordinator, NCCC, Jummai Vandu Senior Investigation Fellow, CCCD-AEFUNAI in charge of climate finance, Mr Obi Ugochukwu and Senior Research Fellow in cost of sector and political economy, Dr Sadiq Okoh.
By Dr Austine Sadiq Okoh, Senior Analysis Fellow at CCCD-AEFUNAI