UNIDO Targets 75 Nigerian Industries for Energy Efficiency

The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) has declared that it would support 75 industries in Nigeria to improve their abilities on Resource Efficiency and Cleaner Production (RECP) and Industrial Energy Efficiency (IEE).

UNIDO said that this would help them to reduce energy consumption, environmental degradation and resource depletion.

This was disclosed on Tuesday by the Country Representative and Regional Director, UNIDO Regional Office Hub, Mr. Jean Bakole, during the “GEF-UNIDO Industrial Energy Efficiency and Resource Efficiency and Cleaner Production Capacity Building Workshop for Media Stakeholders,” which was held in Lagos State.

Bakole, who was represented by UNIDO’s Environment Expert, Mr. Oluyomi O. Banjo, said that

UNIDO is presently implementing the Nigeria country programme, which has been approved to be transformed to a Programme for Country Partnership (PCP). He added that the programme, which has environment and energy as its two distinct programmes, would run from 2018 to 2022.

He said: “We hope to support not less than 75 industries across five sectors of food and beverages, wood and furniture, steel and metals, textile and garment and petrochemicals. We will develop the capacity of the organised private sector and develop not less than 300 Nigerian RECP-IEE experts.

“UNIDO has implemented IEE in over 18 countries around the world and has also implemented RECP in over 60 countries. This programme will create an opportunity to develop the IEE and RECP methodologies, human capacity building which will also see Nigerians being trained to a global standard as energy assessors and RECP experts.