Nigeria, S.Africa worst greenhouse gas emitters in Africa: experts

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

ACCRA (AFP) — Nigeria and South Africa are the main emitters of greenhouse gases in Africa, accounting for almost 90 percent of the emissions in the continent, environmental experts said Saturday.

"Nigeria produces almost 45 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions in Africa from its gas flaring by oil firms in the Niger Delta while South Africa produces as much from industrial pollution," Stefan Cramer told AFP.

Cramer, the director of the Nigeria office of Heinrich Boell Stiftung, a German environmental NGO, was speaking on the sidelines of the ongoing UN Framework Convention on Climate Change conference in Ghana's capital Accra.

"Nigeria emits 20 billion cubic metres of gas flares annually, accounting for 13 percent of the global 150 billion cubic metres...