Head of Division: Ms. Uduak Ekpa
Climate Change Mitigation Division has the vision and goal to ensure that Nigeria develop in harmony with the environment by providing sustainable policy measures and strategies to stabilize the concentration of Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere through action that prevents and reduces emission, and catalyzing the transformational shifts towards net -zero greenhouse gas emission and climate-resilient development pathways.
Mitigation Division is saddled with the responsibility of providing sustainable national policy to mitigate climate change and catalyze the transformational shift towards net-zero emissions and climate resilient development pathways.
Mandate:
To strengthen measures that will stabilize Greenhouse gases concentration in the atmosphere and reduces emissions in order to avoid significant human interference with the Earth’s climate.
Functions:
Specific activities in achieving the Division’s mandate include:
• Develop policies related to climate mitigation eg. National Clean Cooking Policy
• Methane
• Renewable Energy
• Carbon Finance & Budgeting
• Policy formulation on Climate Change Mitigation
• Project Implementation on Climate Change Mitigation
• Issues on Methane
• Green Hydrogen
The Division coordinated:
• Development of first version of Nigeria’s NDC and its implementation process
• Development of Nigeria’s first version of Long-Term Low-Emission Development Strategy. (LT-LEDS)
• Development of National Action Plan to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutant in 2019
• Revised Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) that was submitted to the UNFCCC in 2021
• Distribution of Clean stove and Briquettes at Nasarawa State in 2023
• Development and launching of the National Clean Cooking Policy in collaboration with ICEED during the 17th session of the National Council on Environment in 2024.
• Stakeholders’ Workshop on the implementation of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement towards the Achievement of NDC commitment at Airport Hotel Ikeja, Lagos on 18th October 2022 and Sandralia Hotel, Jabi, Abuja on the 20th October, 2022.
• National Stakeholders’ Engagement Workshop on Methane Mitigation and Reduction in Nigeria (Status and Trends in the Oil and Gas Sector) held On 26th March, 2024 at Ladi Kwali Conference Centre, Abuja Continental Hotel, Abuja
• Installations of Solar Carport at the Ministry’s Headquarters, Mabuchi and the Department of Climate Change, Green Building, Maitama-Abuja