By Chuks Oyema-Aziken
The Director-General/Chief Executive Officer, National Council on Climate Change Secretariat, NCCCS, Dr. Nkiruka Maduekwe has stressed the need for credible and quality data towards the preparation of Nigeria’s First Biennial Transparency Report (BTR1) to the UNFCCC.
She stated this at the 3-day Stakeholder’s Consultation Workshop on Data Analysis towards the preparation of Nigeria’s First Biennial Transparency Report (BTR1) to the UNFCCC on Monday in Abuja.
The workshop was organized by the National Council on Climate Change Secretariat with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The Director-General / CEO said Nigeria is on course to meet the December 2024 deadline for submission.
“We need credible and quality data to develop a carbon budget. We need to know the exact GHG emissions level,” she said.
“It is critical stakeholders provide data not only for BTR to pass our climate obligations, we need to know where are in National Determined Contributions (NDC) implementation and climate actions.
She urged participants to work closely with the NCCCS to achieve its mandate.
Also speaking, Climate Change expert, Professor Emmanuel Oladipo made a call for Nigeria to have information on climate change readily available by having a national system for regenerating climate information.
The BTR preparation is an obligation to countries who are parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) of which Nigeria is a party to.
The Abuja workshop is being attended by Climate Change Focal Person and Sectoral Data Compiler from the States.
