Dangote steps up efforts mitigate green house emission across subsidiaries

Pan-African Conglomerate, Dangote Group has, in line with global best practice,deployed cutting-edge technology and other measures to mitigate emission of Green House Gas (GHG), and its impacts in all its subsidiaries.

This has driven the company’s investments in modern equipment such as analysers, opacimeters, and other continuous emissions monitoring systems used to measure greenhouse gas emissions in real time.

Anthony Chiejina, the group chief branding and communication officer, Dangote Group,who affirmed the development, pointed out that the company’s climate goals extend beyond just reduction of emissions but also to protecting and regenerating the environment, through land reclamation and tree planting.

J.V Gungune,plant director, Dangote Cement Plc at Obajana Plant, Kogi State  disclosed that the company has put in place state-of-the-art facilities to mitigate climate change concerns.

“We need the environment more than it needs us. Hence the need to sustain the environment,” he said.

In the same vein,Eseosa Ighile , the head of sustainability, Dangote Cement, Obajana Plant, noted that several innovative strategies have been introduced to cut emission of Green House Gas (GHG).

Ighile said, in line with the company’s commitment to Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 12, alternative fuels (AF) were adopted to reduce dependency on fossil fuels.

She explained further that the AF project aims to achieve a thermal substitution rate of 25 per cent in all plants by 2025, adding that the company is working towards installing AF feeding systems in all its operation lines by 2024.

Ighile disclosed that the resources utilized for fuels currently at the DCP Obajana include tyre chips, waste oils, and agricultural waste such as palm kernel shells and rice husks, aimed at preventin GHG emmission.

“We are also undergoing technical studies on the use of refuse-derived fuels (RDF) as a fuel source. Between January and July 2023, we’ve consumed over 34,800 metric tonnes of alternative fuel materials for our operations,”  she added.

Ighile further noted that the company has so far, engaged actively in climate action activities including; monitoring of water, waste, and GHG emissions, creation of a decarbonisation working group, and following the guidelines of both local and international organisations.

On his part, Adedeji Adewale, head, technical training at Dangote Academy, said the Dangote Cement Plc uses electrostatic prostetor to trap dust and recycle into the system.

Adewale also disclosed that the Dangote Academy plants thousands of trees every year,including economic trees such as mangoes, soursup, dates,orange trees among others for environmental sustainability.

He explained that tree planting has the potency to protect the climate, regenerate the environment and improve the health condition of inhabitants.