PUBLICATIONS
Towards clean cooking energy for all in Nigeria: Pathways and impacts
May, 2024
Over 175 million Nigerians rely on the use of traditional biomass for cooking, and it is estimated that more than
128,000 people died in Nigeria in 2019 from household air pollution related to these fuels.
Borno State Climate Resilience Action Plan
2024
The Borno State Climate Action Plan (BoSCAP) presents detailed actions that the State Government will embark on to address the increasing challenges of climate change and ensure that these actions support the long-term development aspirations of the state, consistent with national and international commitments
Nigeria Fieldwork Report (UKRI – GCRF SIGMA Project)
February, 2024
Within the scope of this collaborative effort, ICEED was tasked with providing data specific to the Nigerian context. This contribution has ensured a nuanced and contextually relevant perspective within the broader SIGMA project
Exploring the connections between mini-grid market regulation and energy access expansion: The case of Nigeria
November, 2023
About 140 million people across Africa are expected to gain access to electricity from mini grids by 2040. Nigeria, with the least dependable electricity supply on the continent, stands to benefit significantly from this boon. Accordingly, the government has put in place clear regulations to incentivise private investment and drive market growth
Of monopolies and mini grids: case studies from Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria and Senegal -
2022
Recent advances in decentralised renewable electricity systems have undermined long-held assumptions that electricity access and rural electrification can only be achieved via the extension of the national grid.
A Political Economy Analysis of the Nigerian Clean-Cooking Energy Sector
31st May, 2021
What needs to be done differently to overcome the longstanding inertia in the household-energy sector and facilitate a clean-cooking transition for the energy-poor majority? To answer this question, we undertook a political economy analysis of the clean cooking sector.
Strengthening the Nigerian Clean-Cooking Business Ecosystem
31st May, 2021
This research paper describes the current business ecosystem for clean and conventional cooking fuels and technologies in Nigeria.
Fostering an Enabling Policy Environment to Expand Clean-Cooking Access in Nigeria
31st May, 2021
This report provides a critical review of Nigeria’s clean-cooking policies, the relevant institutions and outlines the current challenges that need to be overcome.
Expanding Demand for Clean-Cooking in Nigeria
31st May, 2021
While this report looks at the impact of incomes and poverty on household choices of cooking fuels, it also explores the hypothesis that fuel substitution is not necessarily perfect and that households often use multiple fuels together.
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Low-carbon energy development in Nigeria
12th December, 2012
The Nigerian economy depends on fossil fuel extraction and export, yet 60 per cent of its people live without access to electricity or modern cooking fuels. Can a shift to a lower-carbon economy help to increase energy access and reduce poverty? Nigeria’s low carbon policy framework is evolving in response to international obligations and incentives, and the need to develop more options for power generation. As signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol, Nigeria has made international commitments to promoting low-carbon development.
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Can the low-carbon development agenda increase energy access for the poor in Nigeria?
12th September, 2012
The Nigerian economy depends on fossil fuel extraction and export, yet 60 per cent of its people live without access to electricity or modern cooking fuels. Can a shift to a lower-carbon economy help to increase energy access and reduce poverty?
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Expanding access to poor energy services in Nigeria
13th December, 2012
Nigeria experiences a remarkable paradox – the abundance of energy resources and widespread energy poverty. Only about 40% of the population has access to the country’s grid electricity. About 72% of the population depends on traditional fuelwood for cooking. Despite this, government financing of energy services that benefits majority of Nigeria’s population has been grossly inadequate. Private sector investments and donor support have not fared better.
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Project Summary - Energy Efficient Woodstoves for Schools
2011
A collaboration between USAID Nigeria and ICEED that seeks to install efficient institutional woodstoves in public secondary schools in Cross River and Lagos States.
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Low-carbon Africa: Nigeria
November, 2011
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.
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Low-carbon Africa: leapfrogging to a green future
1st November, 2011
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.
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Low-Carbo Jobs in an Interconnected World
4th March, 2010
This paper focuses on the emerging debate concerning the creation of ‘low-carbon’ jobs.
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Building Trust and Cooperation in a North–South Climate Change Compact
8th October, 2009
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.
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Creating Opportunity - Lowcarbon jobs in an interconnected world
8th October, 2009
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.
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Breaking Through on Technology
8th July, 2009
Overcoming the barriers to the development and wide deployment of low-carbon technology
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How Decentralised Energy Can Deliver Cleaner, Cheaper and More Efficient Energy in Nigeria
4th July, 2009
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.
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Rethinking Biomass Energy in Sub-Sahara Africa
4th June, 2009
Prospects for Africa – Rethinking Biomass Energy in Sub-Sahara Africa Significant Energy Resources amid Growing Poverty
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Renewable Electricity Policy Guidelines
4th December, 2006
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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Renewable Electricity Action Program (REAP)
4th December, 2009
The Federal Government of Nigeria’s vision of renewable energy in the power sector is the achievement of accelerated sustainable development through affordable access to reliable renewable electric power.
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Renewable energy master plan
1st November, 2005
The Renewable Energy Master Plan (REMP) articulates Nigeria’s vision and sets out a road map for increasing the role of renewable energy in achieving sustainable development.
Energising Rural Transformation in Nigeria
4th May, 2002
This book presents an edited collection of papers presented at a national workshop on “Energizing Rural Transformation in Nigeria: Scaling Up Electricity Access and Renewable Energy Market Development”, March 19 – 20, 2001in Abuja.