Nigeria's National Council on Climate Change wants tougher carbon verification to make the country's carbon market credible and attractive to investors. At an EU Climate Dialogues roundtable in Abuja, officials said the National Carbon Markets Framework will rely on a unified registry and digital monitoring, reporting and verification tools like remote sensing, IoT sensors and geospatial data. The goal is to turn climate ambition into bankable projects. The EU side noted that its 2040 target allows up to 5 percent of reductions to come from high-quality international credits under Article 6 from 2036. That puts pressure on Nigeria to set clear MRV rules, build local verification capacity and avoid parallel data systems, especially for forest carbon. The roundtable also stressed coordination among government agencies, private developers and development partners.
