The National Council on Climate Change (NCCC) launches a monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) program to reduce methane emissions in Nigeria, focusing on the oil and gas, agriculture, and waste sectors.
The National Council on Climate Change (NCCC), in partnership with the Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN), has begun the implementation of monitoring reporting verification (MRV) systems to mitigate emissions in Nigeria. Nkiruka Maduekwe, NCCC director-general, spoke in Abuja on Tuesday at an inception workshop to implement MRV for short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) in key sectors.
The MRV programme is designed to assist the government in gaining a clearer understanding of how different sectors contribute to methane and other emissions, while identifying effective opportunities for mitigation. Maduekwe noted that methane is a major greenhouse gas and short-lived climate pollutant that needs to be addressed.The NCCC boss added that Nigeria has identified three priority sectors for methane reduction: oil and gas, agriculture, and waste. Maduekwe said the country will now focus on monitoring emissions, reporting them, and exploring verification methods. She added that the workshop aimed to develop guidelines for methane MRV, enabling Nigeria to measure the amount of methane reduced by the end of 2025. She said, 'We know that if you do not measure something, you are not able to know what it is you need to do; and so, we have understood that monitoring, reporting and verification is very crucial to identifying how much methane we have been able to reduce as a country.' 'That is why this is very important; this is the inception workshop to kick-start this project and you are very crucial stakeholders to ensure that Nigeria actually has an MRV specifically for short-lived climate pollutants. 'We all know what is happening in Rivers with the black carbon emissions; you touch things and they are black; it is affecting the health of children, adults and we are not even doing the calculation of how much methane is affecting our lives,
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