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The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) is investing heavy successful Nigeria’s sustainable clime enactment successful bid to boost greenish system arsenic encapsulated successful the doctrine of improvement and industrialization marshaled by the Agency’s Executive Vice Chairman/CEO, Khalil Suleiman Halilu.
Building a sustainable clime enactment is captious to the argumentation inaugural of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who has reaffirmed Nigeria’s dedication to forging a paradigm displacement successful which clime enactment and economical maturation beforehand together.
This has go imperative arsenic Nigeria faces terrible challenges of clime alteration including accrued floods, droughts, and vigor waves, which origin wide displacement, nonaccomplishment of life, nutrient insecurity, and economical instability.
Nigeria experiences much aggravated and predominant vigor waves, droughts, and floods, starring to harvest failures, nonaccomplishment of livestock, and damaged infrastructure. Desertification successful the northbound and rising oversea levels and erosion successful the southbound degrade land, reducing cultivation productivity and rendering areas unproductive.
There is besides the lawsuit of Climate-induced forced displacement fueling conflicts implicit scarce resources, peculiarly betwixt herders and farmers thereby expanding poorness successful the country.
It was connected this premise that President Tinubu spoke to the satellite successful a virtual league and urged planetary leaders to show unity, courage, and sustained committedness successful addressing the worsening planetary clime crisis.
Speaking connected Wednesday April 23 2025 astatine a high-level virtual dialog connected clime and vigor transition, President Tinubu reaffirmed Nigeria’s dedication to forging a paradigm displacement successful which clime enactment and economical maturation beforehand together.
He said “The planetary clime exigency demands our collective, courageous, and sustained leadership. For Nigeria, the urgency of this infinitesimal is clear: we presumption clime enactment not arsenic a outgo to development, but arsenic a strategical imperative.”
Addressing the league from Abuja, President Tinubu outlined Nigeria’s Energy Transition Plan (ETP) arsenic a bold, pragmatic roadmap for reaching net-zero emissions by 2060.
“We are, therefore, successful the process of aligning our regulatory environment, fiscal incentives, and organization frameworks to guarantee that vigor access, decarbonisation, and economical competitiveness proceed successful lockstep. We are besides taking enactment connected Energy Access,” President Tinubu said.
On his path, the NASENI boss, Halilu reaffirmed the Agency’s committedness to driving Nigeria’s modulation to a sustainable clime enactment and greenish economy.
Speaking astatine a seminar connected clime alteration and greenish system sustainability, held connected Tuesday, September 23, 2025, astatine NASENI office successful Abuja, the EVC/CEO noted that NASENI was established to supply the science, technology, and engineering backbone for Nigeria’s industrialization.
He stressed that the Agency’s mandate successful research, development, and exertion domestication is progressively tied to the planetary combat against clime change. “Every star strategy installed, each tractor restored, each cleanable cookstove produced, and each CNG conveyance conversion is simply a measurement toward concern maturation that is besides climate-resilient,” helium stated.
Highlighting NASENI’s ongoing projects, the EVC pointed retired respective cardinal initiatives ranging from renewable energy, which has to bash with producing assembling and distributing NASENI Solar Home Solutions, producing star panels and lamps locally, and promoting entree to cleanable power.
There are cleanable cooking solutions, which besides supply vigor for cooking done the Powerstove Limited associated venture, which produces cleanable cookstoves and biomass pellets to trim c emissions, amended nationalist health, and unlock c recognition opportunities.
Other climate-smart projects which NASENI is moving connected see Agro-Tech and fertilizers accumulation that assistance successful processing integrated and coal-based fertilizers to fortify nutrient information portion reducing emissions from chemic fertilizers.
Speaking further connected transport and vigor transition, the EVC said NASENI is supporting CNG/LPG car conversion and filing stations arsenic alternatives to petrol and diesel. On integer and astute Manufacturing, helium said the Agency is advancing section accumulation of laptops, tablets, drones, and astute devices with sustainability astatine the halfway of design.
Halilu besides highlighted the Asset Restoration Programme (ARP), which refurbishes idle authorities infrastructure to trim waste, chopped costs, and widen the beingness rhythm of captious assets, an attack described arsenic some cost-effective and clime friendly.
Coordinator, NASENI Carbon Ecosystem, Engr. Muhammad Yadudu, giving overview of NASENI’s relation successful addressing clime challenges portion promoting concern maturation successful the c...
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