The Nationally Determined Contributions (CDN) of Côte d’Ivoire are being revised to meet with a cumulative greenhouse gas emission reduction target of 28% by 2030, without undermining the ambition of industrialization.

In this dynamic, the national coordination unit of the CDN waste project of the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development organized from May 27 to 29, 2021 in Jacqueville, a workshop on the validation of the guidelines on biogas and compost.

This meeting is part of the project “Support for the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (CDN) in the waste sector in Côte d’Ivoire”, indicates a note from the ministry sent Thursday, May 17, 2021 to the ‘AIP.

This ambition to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions relates primarily to the priority sectors of agriculture, forestry and other land uses, energy and waste.

Faced with this challenge, the director of the fight against climate change, Dr Eric Assamoi, invited the stakeholders to participate effectively in the enrichment of this study. “This workshop should be participatory so that the final versions of the guidelines on compost and on biogas can best reflect the concerns and expectations of practitioners,” he said.

He specified that this document in preparation augurs a course of action for players in the compost and biogas sector. “This is all the most important as these methodological guides are called upon to become real rudders leading us to build the solid foundations on which compost and biogas practitioners can rely to plan their projects and / or activities”, he concluded.

The purpose of these studies is to prepare the framework tools necessary for the development of a market sector of biogas and compost through a normative approach that can guarantee the quality of these products, indicates the document.

The Canadian Government, through “Environment and Climate Change Canada”, has undertaken to strengthen its assistance in developing countries within the framework of the implementation of the Paris Agreement. It allocated resources to the United Nations environment program, in order to assist Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal for the implementation of their NDCs in the waste sector.

This project aims to support the development of policies and capacity building to facilitate the reduction of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in the waste sector and to set up and / or support a pilot composting and / or methanization in each of the two countries.

Source: Agence Ivoirienne de Presse