Our impact area
Four impact areas.
One coherent climate response.
Our work concentrates where the evidence says it can move the needle for Nigeria, and where what we learn can travel to the rest of the continent. Emissions reduction, clean air, environmental governance, and sustainable development.
Picked by following the data, not the headlines.
Climate work that tries to do everything ends up doing nothing. We focus on the areas where Nigeria’s evidence base is strongest, where credible action can change outcomes inside a single political cycle, and where the lessons travel across African contexts.
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Emissions Reduction
Cutting carbon, methane, and short-lived climate pollutants in the sectors where the volume is greatest.
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Clean Air
Building Nigerian air-quality data, evidence, and the public-health case for action.
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Environmental Governance
Strengthening the institutions, regulations, and accountability systems that turn ambition into outcomes.
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Sustainable Development
Aligning climate action with livelihoods, jobs, and equitable growth.
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The four pillars
The work, area by area.
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01 Emissions Reduction Cutting CO2, methane, and short-lived climate pollutants in the Nigerian sectors where the volume, and the leverage, is greatest.
Nigeria’s emissions are not a single-source story. Oil and gas, agriculture, transport, and waste each carry distinct mitigation curves, and treating them with one strategy is how good policy goes wrong. Our work segments the problem the way the data does, and prioritises action where reductions are technically feasible, politically tractable, and economically defensible.
We support government partners on inventory and MRV systems, work with industry on flaring and methane abatement strategies, and contribute to the analytical base behind Nigeria’s NDC implementation. We also evaluate whether mitigation programmes are actually delivering the reductions they were designed for, not the ones their reports describe.
What we do
- GHG inventory and MRV system design
- Methane abatement strategy and analysis
- Sectoral mitigation pathway modelling
- NDC implementation and tracking
- Carbon market integrity assessment
- Programme evaluation and impact measurement
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02 Clean Air Air pollution is one of the largest preventable health burdens in Nigeria. Closing the data gap is the first step to closing the action gap.
For most of Nigeria’s major cities, routine, public, station-grade air-quality data simply does not exist. That gap shapes everything downstream, from health planning, to industrial regulation, to citizen awareness. The result is a public-health story that the country tells in anecdotes instead of evidence.
Our clean air work focuses on three interlocking questions: What are our cities actually breathing? Who is bearing the burden? And which interventions, in our context, are most cost-effective? We work with regulators on monitoring strategy, with researchers on exposure modelling, and with public-health partners on translating particulate data into the right interventions.
What we do
- Urban air-quality baseline assessment
- Low-cost sensor network design and validation
- Source apportionment analysis
- Health-burden and exposure modelling
- Industrial emissions standards review
- Public communication and air-quality dashboards
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03 Environmental Governance Climate ambition is decided by what is enforced, not by what is announced. We work on the institutions, rules, and accountability systems that turn commitments into outcomes.
Nigeria has signed onto credible climate ambition. The harder question is how, and whether, that ambition reaches a state ministry, a municipal regulator, or a community office that has to act on it on a Monday morning. Governance is where most climate strategies quietly fail.
Our governance work supports the rebuild of that connective tissue: federal and state climate institutions, regulatory clarity for industry, transparent climate finance flows, and the public accountability mechanisms that keep all of it honest. We also work with subnational governments, where day-to-day environmental decisions are increasingly made, on capacity, planning, and coordination.
What we do
- Climate institutional design and review
- Subnational climate strategy development
- Regulatory and standards review
- Climate finance tracking and transparency
- NDC governance frameworks
- Public accountability and disclosure mechanisms
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04 Sustainable Development Climate action that ignores livelihoods will not last. We work where the climate transition meets jobs, equity, and economic growth.
Across Nigeria, climate strategies that ignore the economic reality of the people they affect tend to fail at the implementation stage. The just transition is not a slogan, it is a design constraint. Our sustainable development work treats it as such, looking at climate action through the lens of the household, the smallholder farmer, the informal worker, and the SME.
We focus on the intersections where climate, economic development, and equity actually meet, clean energy access, climate-smart agriculture, green jobs and skills, and the role of MSMEs in the transition. We also work on adaptation strategies for the communities most exposed to climate variability, where the question is not future risk but present cost.
What we do
- Just transition planning and analysis
- Energy access and clean cooking strategies
- Climate-smart agriculture programmes
- Green jobs and skills assessment
- Adaptation planning for vulnerable communities
- SME and MSME transition support
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Whether you are scoping a programme, evaluating an initiative, or stress-testing a strategy, we are ready to bring our evidence base, our partners, and our delivery model to the table.