Overview
- Exposes how Nigeria can reduce dependency on fossil fuels whilst improving living conditions
- Plots an eco-efficient path to a carbon neutral future not harmful to the country’s economic growth
- Places post-fossil future of Nigeria squarely in the conversation of Nigerian economic development
- Promotes Nigeria’s energy sovereignty by plotting a path to a sustainable energy future
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About this book
This book provides an insight into the complexities of weaning Nigeria from its fossil fuels addiction while growing the economy on low carbon trajectory. Nigeria faces a carbon catch 22 with the proliferation of renewable energy alternatives and scale-up of electric vehicles. The dilemma Nigeria is confronted with is to grow its fossil-led economy or face the challenge of its fossil infrastructure becoming stranded assets. It is a roadmap for plotting an environmentally benign path out of the country’s economic, social and environmental crises. This book is, therefore, a valuable resource for students, Civil Society Organizations, policymakers, academics and climate change adaptation practitioners who are interested in finding an environmentally sensitive path out of Nigeria’s economic cul-de-sac fostered by the decarbonization of the global energy economy. Findings of this study will trigger a national conversation on the looming exit from fossil fuels. In doing so, accelerate theintegration of renewable energy into the Nigerian national development plan while building a carbon neutral society. Lessons learnt from the handling of Nigeria’s precarious circumstance will be of immense benefit to other oil prospecting, oil producing and non-producing nations who are interested in finding an equitable way of pursuing two inversely related goals of meeting their decarbonization commitments while simultaneously growing their economies in the post-Paris era.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Oil Mortality in Post-Fossil Fuel Era Nigeria
Book Subtitle: Beyond the Oil Age
Authors: Augustine Sadiq Okoh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60785-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60784-5Published: 22 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60787-6Published: 22 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60785-2Published: 21 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 254
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Renewable and Green Energy, Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture), Sustainable Development, Economics, general, Environmental Management