Efforts by the Nigerian government and oil and gas companies to address methane leaks have significantly contributed to reducing climate-warming emissions, according to a statement by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged world leaders to take immediate steps to cut emissions, safeguard people from climate chaos, and “tear down the walls to climate finance” in response to the climate crisis.
The European Union, through UNEP’s International Methane Emissions Observatory, is building capacity among stakeholders and negotiators in Nigeria’s climate sector to address methane emissions.
The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) and Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN), an NGO, have taken steps to reduce methane emissions in Nigeria.
The Centre for Transparency Advocacy (CTA) has emphasised the importance of addressing methane emissions to mitigate climate change.
Stakeholders in the environmental sector have called for urgent action to reduce methane emissions in the country to enhance environmental sustainability.
The rice plant uses aerenchyma, a spongy chimney like plant tissue, to allow oxygen to move down into the roots and the methane producing bacteria in the soil are using the same tube to send methane up into the atmosphere.