Nigeria, March 6 -- The House of Representatives is advancing a bill to establish a comprehensive national framework to drive Nigeria's decarbonisation agenda and coordinate the country's transition toward a low-carbon economy.

The proposed National Decarbonisation Bill, currently before the House, seeks to provide a legal framework to harmonise climate policies, emission-reduction initiatives, and energy transition programmes implemented across different sectors of the economy.

Chairman of the House Committee on Mandatory National Decarbonisation, Sesi Whingan (PDP, Lagos), disclosed this on Thursday while briefing journalists after a stakeholders' technical roundtable on Nigeria's national decarbonisation programme held in Abuja.

Mr ...