Greenhouse Gas Emissions Factsheet: West Africa Region

This factsheet provides information on greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in 21 countries of the West Africa Region. Included is an overview of emissions by sector, changes in emissions, information on carbon intensity, as well as climate change mitigation targets and plans.

West Africa’s total regional GHG emissions in 2014 were 994.70 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e), totaling 2.03 percent of global GHG emissions. In West Africa, 31.5 percent of GHG emissions came from the land-use change and forestry sector, followed by the energy, agriculture, waste and the industrial processes sector which contributed 27.1 percent, 22.7, 10.9 percent and 7.9 percent respectively to GHG emissions.

All countries in the West Africa region submitted an intended nationally determined contribution (INDC) prior to the UN climate change conference (COP 21) that culminated in the 2015 Paris Agreement. The GHG mitigation commitments communicated in the INDCs are summarized in the factsheet.

This User Guide explains some of the terminology in this GHG Factsheet.

Find other country and regional climate risk management resources here.

Country
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, The Gambia
Sectors
Adaptation, Integration, Education
Strategic Objective
Integration, Mitigation
Topics
Adaptation, Emissions, Climate Change, Climate Risk Management, Mitigation
Region
Africa

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