Energy and Climate Security for Nigeria’s Poor
Nigeria experiences a tremendous paradox – the abundance of energy resources and widespread poverty. The country is home to 102 million extreme poor – one-in-four of Sub-Sahara Africa’s total. It is also the region’s largest exporter of crude oil. Today, low access to energy services accounts, in part, for the slow progress against poverty in the country.
The scandal of poverty, suffered by billions of people around the globe, could soon become far worse. It is being exacerbated by the effects of climate change,which are already having an impact in some parts of the world, with an increase in severe tropical cyclones, drought, falling crop productivity, rising sea levels and shrinking glaciers.
How can developed countries best help developing countries finance climate-friendly energy investments?
This paper focuses on the emerging debate concerning the creation of ‘low-carbon' jobs.
The purpose of this paper is to survey the current international climate negotiations and to outline the areas that may be of material interest to national environmental regulators ahead of December’s United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen.
If governments are bold and ambitious in developing markets for low?carbon technologies, then they will maximise the economic benefits and stand a greater chance of creating more jobs. That is the simple message from a new Global Climate Network (GCN) study currently underway in nine member countries and due to be completed and
published in October 2009.
Overcoming the barriers to the development and wide deployment of low-carbon technology
Energy demand in Nigeria is growing fast and, being a developing country, this trend is likely to continue.Nigeria’s plentiful and varied energy resources are mainly conventional or non-renewable, such as crude petroleum oil, natural gas, coal, tar sand and uranium. However, the country’s current power sector planning process mainly favours conventional centralised gas fired generation. By 2020, this is set to comprise 74 per cent of the country’s total electricity output.
Prospects for Africa – Rethinking Biomass Energy in Sub-Sahara Africa Significant Energy Resources amid Growing Poverty
The Policy Guidelines on Renewable Electricity (herein referred to as the Policy Guidelines) is the Federal Government of Nigeria’s overarching policy on all electricity derived from renewable energy sources. The Policy Guidelines sets out the Federal Government’s vision, policies and objectives for promoting renewable energy in the power sector.
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