Better, healthier life for humanity across the globe was the chief concern as the Sahara Group, an international conglomerate dedicated to building sustainable societies, on Monday, June 24, 2024, gathered well over a hundred reputable news media outfits from across the conventional to the digital brands in Lagos.
The gathering featured sessions of brainstorming discussions by highly informed panelists constituted from the echelons of the academia, environmentalists, experienced and well-traveled industry and corporate players who allowed no dull moments in the full-day eventful discourse as they all marshalled provable points in line with the Cleaner and Greener Society focus of the Sahara Group under the theme: Carbon Footprint And The African Narrative.
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Delivering the keynote speech at the event, Dr Chichi Aniagolu-Okoye, the Regional Director, West Africa, Ford Foundation, charged Africans to waste no time joining the bandwagon of the crusade towards reducing carbon emission, even as she posited that Africa and Africans should not be dictated to; insisting that the African continent should tap from its own wealth of natural and human resources to achieve the emission reduction goal.
She noted that carbon emission had negatively affected humanity, threatening human existence via climate change manifesting in the increasingly unbearable hot weather, drying up of water sources et al.
The sociologist and social change crusader with over two decades of experience, however, canvassed global divestment to mitigate the menace of carbon emission and its consequences.
She also called for concerted efforts of the media, community leaders, Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs), government and corporate organisations through partnerships for more penetrative awareness campaigns towards sustainable pollution-free environment.
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In her own cerebral discharge titled Much Ado About African Carbon Emission, Ejiro Gray, Director, Governance and Sustainability, Sahara Group, noted that though Africa has relatively low emission compared to other regions, the continent of Africa is till largely hit by hash effect of climate change.
This is even as she noted that more than 1.5m Nigerian children are at the risk of devastating effects of floods.
She added, however, that in Africa, the Energy Sector is considered the sector with the highest emission of Carbon Dioxide (CO2).
African solution will be the best for Africans in Africa”; Gray concluded.
During his own presentation, Wole Agabje, the Group Project Manager, Asharami Energy, who tutored the audience on the topic: Decarbonising Africa’s Upstream Operations, harped on the need to build a secure and sustainable energy for Africa’s future.
He suggested, among others, that African governments should create a sustainable enabling environment for the decarbonisation goal.
He also canvassed an accessible pool of capital.
Dr Eugene looked at the topic: Carbon: The African Option wherein he fingered the sources of emissions in Africa to include the energy sector, deforestation activities, the land use charge and industrial processes.
Among the take-aways from the various panel discussions is that those whose electricity consumption needs are low are advised to stay off the national grid and adapt to the use of other non-emission power sources.
While it deforestation and carbonisation through the felling and burning of trees was generally discouraged by the discussants, the panels, however, agreed that enforcing anti-deforestation activities could not be effective until the governments and other stakeholders take steps to provide rural people with necessary, dependable and cost effective power source alternative.
