Climate Change: FG to phase out kerosene usage by 2030

The President, Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja, said the updated Nationally Determined Contribution of Nigeria to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change would eliminate the use of kerosene lighting by 2030, increase the use of buses for public transport and reduce the burning of crop residues by 50 per cent.

This, he said, forms part of his regime’s plans to scale down greenhouse gas emissions, adding that the NDC has been submitted to replace the interim contribution of May 27, 2021.

According to a statement signed on Friday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, Buhari revealed this in a virtual meeting hosted by President Joe Biden of the United States on Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Change.

The statement is titled ‘We’re scaling down on emissions, with 2030 targets for elimination of kerosene lighting, increased bus transits, says president Buhari at energy forum.’

Restating Nigeria’s commitment to a safer and healthier global climate, he said, “Our updated NDC includes the waste sector which is expected to contribute to the reduction of Nigeria’s Greenhouse Gas emissions. This development raised an additional two per cent to the Nationally Determined Contribution from 45 per cent to 47 per cent conditionally and 20 per cent unconditionally below business-as-usual.

“Other action plans that are inherent in our NDC include; the elimination of kerosene lighting by 2030, increase in the use of bus rapid transit as a means of transportation for the general public, 50 per cent reduction in the fraction of crop residues burnt by 2030 and implementation of forest programmes.

“Initiatives to deliver 20 per cent Green House Gas emission reductions and enhanced removals equivalent to approximately 74.2 Metric tons of Carbon Dioxide by 2030, and Ratification of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase out Hydro-fluoro-carbon emissions.”