Nigeria

General

• In 2016, Nigeria published a revised version of the National Policy on the Environment which regulates air quality in Nigeria through the National Environmental Standards and Regulation Enforcement Agency (NESREA).  Its clean air strategies include designating and mapping National Air Control Zones that will have air quality standards and objectives as well as monitoring stations. It will also license and register all major industrial air polluters and monitor their compliance with air pollution abatement standards. When it comes to fuel and vehicles it establishes standards for fuel additives as well as stringent emissions standards for both automobile exhausts and energy generating plants. Finally, it recognizes the importance of regional cooperation in minimizing atmospheric pollutants.
• In 2014, the National Environmental (Air Quality Control) Regulation was formed to better monitor ambient air quality by acquiring equipment to monitor and generate accurate data on the state of air quality in Nigeria.

Agriculture

• In 2020, the first-ever mapping of fires in sub-Saharan Africa was funded by the CCAC in collaboration with the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI) and Miami University Ohio and included detailed mapping for Nigeria. This will help the Nigerian government and agriculture stakeholders make more targeted mitigation efforts.
• In 2019, Nigeria's National Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Action Plan was approved by the Federal Executive Council of Ministers. The plan prioritizes SLCP mitigation measures for the agriculture sector including a target of 50 percent uptake of the methane-reducing agricultural strategy of intermittent aeration of rice paddy fields by 2030, reducing open burning of crop residues by 50 percent by 2030, a 50 percent reduction in methane emissions through improved manure management, and reduced methane emissions intensity by 30 percent by 2030.

Household Energy

• In 2019, a clean cooking programme was launched by Nexleaf Analytics, Rural Women for Energy Security (RUWES), the Ministry of Environment, and the CCAC. The partners will work with Nigerian communities to evaluate existing clean cooking solutions in resource-limited environments. The program will then identify stoves and fuels that meet the needs of rural women while also reducing emissions.
• In 2017, the Nigerian government in collaboration with United Nations Environment Program and the CCAC launched a programme to phase out kerosene lighting.  A set of recommendations were developed for the government and other key stakeholders in the Nigerian renewable energy sector for actualizing the transition to clean modern lighting and energy access for all Nigerians by 2030.
• In 2017, Standard Microfinance Bank (MFB) received technical training which brought solar lighting to homes in Nigeria’s Adamawa State.

HFCs

• In 2019, Nigeria launched the CCAC’s global initiative on energy efficient cooling along with France, Japan, and Rwanda. The initiative aims to build high level leadership to enhance energy efficiency in the cooling sector while countries implement the phasedown of hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants under the Montreal Protocol’s Kigali Amendment.
• Since 2019, Nigeria has been developing a National Cooling Plan with the support of United Nations Industrial Development Organization and funding from K-CEP.
• In 2016, an emission model for HFCs in Nigeria was published through the CCAC’s Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) Initiative based on the information and materials generated in the 2015 HFC Inventory. The emission model concluded that annual emissions of HFCs in Nigeria are expected to more than double between 2008 and 2020.
• In 2013, the CCAC’s HFC Initiative undertook an initial survey of HFC consumption in Nigeria to establish current consumption and provide growth projections by substance and sector. It also aimed to identify opportunities and challenges to transition to lower emissions alternatives. In 2015, Nigeria’s HFC Inventory was published as a result of these efforts.

Transport

• In 2020, Nigeria was one of 15 West African countries that adopted comprehensive regulations for introducing cleaner fuel and vehicle standards in the region in a major step to reduce air pollution and climate emissions.
• In 2015, The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) organized a Stakeholder Workshop on Air Quality and Transportation Challenges in Nigeria and the agenda for Clean Air Action Plan in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Environment (FME) of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nigeria on November.
• In 2015, the Federal Government approved the National Vehicular Emissions Control Programme (NVECP), a public-private partnership launched in Abuja and Lagos to establish vehicle emission testing centres nationwide and require annual testing of vehicles for toxic emissions and data collection.
• In 2012, vehicle emission standards were introduced equivalent to Euro 2, furthering efforts to phase out leaded gasoline that have been ongoing since 2003. Maximum sulphur limits in fuel were also set to 3,000 ppm and 1,000 ppm for diesel and petrol, respectively.
• In 2011, the government formed the National Environmental (Control of Vehicular Emissions from Petrol and Diesel Engines) Regulations to enforce vehicle emission control regulations like banning two-stroke engines, prohibiting of motor vehicles that don’t have approved emission-reduction technology with penalties on violators, and conducting annual testing of vehicles for toxic gas emissions.

Waste

• In 2016, Lagos State started the Cleaner Lagos Initiative to turn waste to energy and create jobs in the city. A private waste management contractor called Visionscape Sanitation Solutions was appointed to implement the plan, with Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) as a regulatory body.
• In 2014, the government of Lagos State issued a full set of waste resource recovery guidelines. This included a plan to convert the Epe dump site into a material recovery station, increasing the treatment capacity of Odoguyan composting site to 500 tons, and providing sorting bins to waste sites and incentives for their use. The guidelines also involved plans to invite private investors to partner on waste recovery with Lagos State and established the LAWMA Recycling Bank to use recycling to reduce the waste that ends up in landfills.

Climate Finance
  

• In 2019, the President of Nigeria expanded the Green Bond Programme which embodies the country’s efforts to reduce emissions and adapt to the effects of climate change, which includes the water and waste sector. If fully implemented, these efforts will pave the way for a low carbon economy resulting in a 50 percent reduction in emissions.
• In 2017, Nigeria issued the Nigerian Government Green Bond Programme to align its own financial markets with the government’s climate objectives as detailed in the country’s 2015 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). The bond mostly targets solar energy projects and national afforestation programmes. ​