President Bola Tinubu has reaffirmed Nigeria’s commitment to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2060, unveiling plans to deepen gas, renewable energy, and hydrogen investments as part of the nation’s energy transition drive.
Represented by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Solid Minerals Development, Engr. Faruk Yabo Yusuf, at the High-Level Leaders’ Event of the Second Africa Climate Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Tinubu said Nigeria’s transition plan would balance industrial growth, job protection, and climate action.
The president says, the country has already rolled out legal and policy frameworks, including the Climate Change Act 2021, and is finalising a new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) 3.0 with an economy-wide roadmap to be launched in 2025.
He explained that the government was prioritising gas-to-power projects alongside an accelerated scale-up of solar and wind under the “Mission 300” as well as utility-scale energy storage, among others being deployed to stabilise the national grid.
Tinubu listed other initiatives such as climate-smart agriculture for smallholder farmers, resilient housing projects, and a nationwide distribution of clean cookstoves and LPG cylinders to cut household air pollution by 60 per cent by 2030.