Nigeria Net Zero 2060: How Far Has the Country Moved Toward Sectoral Decarbonisation?
Sustainability & Climate Policy Nigeria has committed to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2060. Since that commitment, the country has developed a substantial climate-policy architecture, including the Climate Change Act 2021, the Energy Transition Plan (ETP), the Long-Term Low-Emission Development Strategy (LT-LEDS), and a new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC 3.0) submitted to the UNFCCC in September 2025. But a policy commitment is not the same thing as decarbonisation. A country can pass climate legislation, publish transition strategies and announce investment programmes without yet demonstrating sustained reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions. This raises a more important question for Nigeria: How far has Nigeria moved from making a net-zero commitment to achieving measurable sectoral decarbonisation? This article examines that question using a simple five-stage framework: Commitment: What has Nigeria promised? ...