Niger's environmental framework law dates to 1998 (Loi N° 98-56), fixing "le cadre juridique général et les principes fondamentaux de la gestion de l'environnement au Niger," a pre-Paris-Agreement general framework rather than a climate-specific act. Niger revised its NDC in 2021, submitted in December 2021, raising ambition for adaptation and mitigation in the agriculture, forestry, land use and energy sectors against a 2014 emissions baseline, coordinated by a dedicated national committee created by ministerial order in August 2020.
Projects
Gorou Banda Solar Power Plant
A photovoltaic plant at Gorou Banda, Niamey, financed by the French development agency AFD.
Niger Acacia Senegal Plantation Project
Gum arabic plantations restoring degraded Sudano-Sahelian drylands that cannot regenerate naturally.
Regreening Africa
A UN World Restoration Flagship regreening degraded farmland across eight African countries.
SURAGGWA: Scaling-Up Resilience in the Great Green Wall
A 222 million USD Green Climate Fund programme to restore Sahelian landscapes across eight Great Green Wall countries.
Regulation
Framework law
"Article premier : La présente loi fixe le cadre juridique général et les principes fondamentaux de la gestion de l'environnement au Niger."Titre I, Article premier
General environmental framework law (pre-Paris Agreement; not climate-specific by title, but the general framework climate governance sits under). No dedicated post-2015 climate act identified for Niger.
Issuing body: Ministry of Environment of Niger · Single source
NDC
"La révision de la CDN a permis de i) faire un état des lieux de la mise en œuvre des engagements de 2015, ii) rehausser les ambitions du Niger en matière d'adaptation et d'atténuation sur la base de nouvelles estimations des émissions pour les secteurs clés (AFAT et Energie)... les émissions globales du pays sont de l'ordre de 28 777,299 GgCO2eq en 2014."Résumé, p.iv
Revises Niger's 2015 CDN; base year 2014, AFAT and Energy are priority sectors; coordinated by a Comité National created by Arrêté n°0155/ME/SU/DD/SG du 31 Août 2020.
Issuing body: Ministry of Environment of Niger · Single source