Chuks Oyema-Aziken
Experts have identified inadequate data as one of the challenges in National Green House Gas (GHG) inventory compilation in Nigeria.
They made the observation at a week long Workshop for the Capacity Building on the Use of the National GHG Inventory Compilation Tool – RISQ in Abuja.
In his observation, Mr Todd Ngara, Team Leader, Nigerian Climate Change Response Programme, NCCRP, said that “major weakness is non availability of active data. Data is weak, to get the emissions, you need active data.
Speaking also, one of the facilitators, Julien Vincent of Citepa France advised that the trainees continue to be mentored to make data reporting better.
A Climate Change expert, James Chidi said that paucity of data has always hindered reporting.
“Building a data base of GHG emissions is not a cheap exercise,” he noted.
The training was organised by the Federal Government towards the fulfilment of its conditional NDC target, the European Union (EU) through the provision of technical assistance for the implementation of the Nigerian Climate Change Response Programme (NCCRP).
The technical assistance for the implementation of the NCCRP is being provided by the Conseil Santé Consortium (French consulting company) in accordance with the methodology document that it developed in this regard (NCCRP methodology), with the Department of Climate Change (DCC), Federal Ministry of Environment, as the main beneficiary.
