By Mashe Umaru Gwamna
Environmental Health Council of Nigeria (EHCON) has collaborated with 3DATX Africa to kick start pilot phase of vehicular emissions which is meant to phase out million tons of carbon emissions from the roads and improve air worthiness and green economy.
The technology will be deployed fully into the country by 3DATX Africa through a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement in collaboration with EHCON, National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) and National Council on Climate Change (NCCC).
The Registrar of EHCON, Dr Yakubu Baba made the disclosure at a one day media dialogue in Mpape , Abuja, while commissioning the project .
Baba said that the decarbonisation project would improve human health and reduce carbon emissions from the environment.
“The Essence of the vehicular testing technology is to achieve net-zero emissions target in order to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
“ Already about 100 vehicles have been tested free of charge during the pilot phase”. Nigeria is the first country to benefit from the project in the African continent”.
He explained that the beauty of the technology is that after identifying the problem, the company and council will come up with a solution to make all vehicles emission-free, which enable Nigeria to meet the global target on net-zero emissions,the ECHON boss emphasized.
“The council has recorded significant milestone in the history of environmental health through the technology.
“Nigeria would benefit from the incentive that is within the UN framework”.
He said that EHCON has reached an agreement with the company in four areas such as research, development, capacity building and advocacy.
He revealed that through capacity building, over 40, 000 Environmental H is ealth Practitioners (EHPs) across the country would be trained on how to use the technology.
Also speaking,General Manager of 3DATX Corporation, Matthew Suleiman said that Nigeria would rake billions of revenue from the project.
He noted that at the end of the pilot project, all the partners (government and private sector) would ascertain the cost of testing any vehicle, saying that the technology is reliable in measuring carbon emissions.
Suleiman noted that each vehicle could be tested once annually whether it uses gas or petrol except for electric vehicles that are emission-free.
