Energy transition
10 frameworks.
One destination.
From the Paris Agreement to national energy laws: the commitments that define the energy transition worldwide, in Africa and in Nigeria, and what each means for investment.
Global frameworks
Commitment, 2015
Paris Agreement
The global climate treaty: hold warming well below 2°C and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C, with national plans ratcheted up every five years.
1.5°C Temperature limit countries pursue efforts towards
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Commitment, 2023
UAE Consensus (COP28)
The first global stocktake’s outcome: triple renewable capacity and double energy-efficiency improvements by 2030, and transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems.
3× Global renewable capacity by 2030
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Commitment, 2015
Sustainable Development Goal 7
The UN goal to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030.
2030 Target year for universal energy access
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Nigeria
Plan, 2022
Nigeria Energy Transition Plan
Nigeria’s roadmap to universal energy access by 2030 and a carbon-neutral energy system by 2060.
2060 Net-zero target year for the energy system
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Commitment, 2021
Nigeria’s Nationally Determined Contribution
Nigeria’s emissions pledge under the Paris Agreement: 20% below business as usual by 2030 on its own, 47% with international support.
20% Unconditional cut below business as usual by 2030
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Nigeria Climate Change Act 2021
The law that puts Nigeria’s net-zero ambition on a statutory footing and creates the National Council on Climate Change.
18 Nov 2021 Signed into law
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Law, 2023
Nigeria Electricity Act 2023
The law that ended the federal monopoly on electricity regulation and lets states build their own electricity markets.
June 2023 Signed into law by President Bola Tinubu
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Programme, 2021
Nigeria Decade of Gas
The Federal Government’s declaration of 2021–2030 as the decade to grow domestic gas production and use.
2021–2030 Declared Decade of Gas
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National Decarbonisation Programme (Nigeria)
CEII’s initiative to develop a strategic roadmap for Nigeria’s decarbonisation efforts.
CEII Initiative led by the Centre
Read the briefThe world has the targets. What it needs now is the sequencing, the institutions and the bankable projects to reach them.
Centre for Energy Investment and Innovation