Nigeria Will Continue To Push For Beneficial Energy Transition Programme For Africa — Sylva
Minister of State Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, said Nigeria will remain at the vanguard of the crusade for a multifaceted energy transition timetable that will attract more investments for Africa while taking cognizance of the current global energy transition in the direction of renewable energy.
Horatius Egua, Senior Adviser (Media & Communications), to the Minister of State Petroleum Resources, made this known in a statement.
The declaration is coming on the heels of a collective decision by African petroleum and energy ministers to present a common voice at COP 27 in Egypt, in November, for Africa to be allowed to continue to exploit its hydrocarbon deposits for the development of the continent.
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“Nigeria will continue to drive the direction of the narrative for the African energy transition programme. We have stood out to say no to a single track energy transition programme and had and will continue to support a transition agenda that will promote gas and renewed investments in the hydrocarbon sector for Africa,” Sylvasaid on Sunday.
Sylva, and Egyptian Energy Minister Terek el Molla, have been themain voices in articulating a multi-track approach to the energy transition programme for Africa.
Both leaders are of the view that for the energy transition programme to be meaningful, Africa must be factored into the global energy transition programme in such a way that takes care of the peculiar African situations.
He said, “Nigeria will continue to advocate for gas as a transition fuel for Africa. We have said that we cannot move at the same pace with the rest of the world because we contribute less than 2% of the global greenhouse gas emission. We are not the problem and we cannot be made to pay for the sins we did not commit”.
