INNOVATIVE APPROACHES FOR CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION IN TRANSPORT INSTITUTIONS IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Accelerating the national and international innovative approaches for climate change mitigation is one of the key drivers for the achieving the objectives especially in developing countries like Nigeria where the policy implementation is becoming very difficult. Transport agencies reducing their greenhouse gas emissions are not in their self-interest because the domestic costs outweigh the domestic benefits according to their tradition. Several inter-governmental agencies are now incorporating innovative climate change mitigation such as managing transportation demand as much as possible by reducing the need to travel. This paper aims to review these programs with paired goals of assessing their success in promoting these innovation, and identifying newly formed innovation Instruments. The paper concludes that all programs reviewed have promoted the innovative approaches for climate change mitigation in transport agencies despite with incomplete implementation of these policies. The research has recommended that the international practices for innovative climate change mitigation approaches should be adopted in Nigeria in order to reduce incidents cause by climate change. Similarly, in future programs, part of the funding of the transport agencies should be dedicated to programs, doing research for new innovative approaches for climate change mitigation in transport agencies and development as well. 

Key words: Climate change, innovation, transport, mitigation.