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Nigeria's Updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), 2021

Unconditional 20% / conditional 47% reduction below BAU by 2030.

Statutory basis

Paris Agreement 2015 (ratified by Nigeria 16 May 2017); Climate Change Act 2021

Nigeria's first NDC was submitted in 2017; the updated 2021 NDC raised the unconditional emissions-reduction commitment to 20% below business-as-usual by 2030, and the conditional commitment (on adequate international climate finance) to 47%. The NDC covers energy, agriculture, forestry & other land use, industrial processes & product use, and waste sectors.

Other Climate policies

Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged

Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.