The Dangote Group claims to have used cutting-edge technology and other initiatives across all of its companies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and their effects.
Mr. Anthony Chiejina, the company’s Group Chief Branding and Communication Officer, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos.
According to Chiejina, the organisation launched an awareness-raising campaign as part of its contribution to the effort to reduce GHG.
He explained that this was done to educate local communities and workers about the effects of climate change and environmental sustainability.
He disclosed that the company’s new plants were made to be resource and energy efficient in order to reduce gaseous emissions from the company’s manufacturing process.
In order to detect emissions in real time, Chiejina continued, Dangote Group made significant investments in contemporary machinery like analysers, opacimeters, and other continuous emissions monitoring systems.
The company’s climate aims, according to him, go beyond only reducing emissions to also conserve and regenerate the ecosystem through tree planting and land reclamation.
Dr. Eseosa Ighile, the head of sustainability at the Dangote Cement Plc Obajana Plant, stated that numerous novel solutions had been implemented to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
According to Ighile, the company has so far monitored its waste, water, and GHG emissions and established a working group on decarbonization.
She claims that the working group adheres to local and international institutions’ policies.
She said that alternative fuels (AF) were used to lessen reliance on fossil fuels in accordance with the company’s commitment to SDG 12 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) framework.
She stated that the 25 percent thermal substitution rate in all facilities was the goal of the AF project by 2025.
By 2024, we plan to have AF feeding systems installed in every operation line.
“Agricultural waste, such as rice husks and palm kernel shells, as well as waste oils and tyre chips are now used as fuels at the DCP Obajana.
Additionally, technological studies on the utilisation of refuse-derived fuels (RDF) as a fuel source are now being conducted.
We have used more than 34,800 metric tonnes of alternative fuel resources for our activities between January and July 2023, the spokesperson claimed.
Mr. Adedeji Adewale, Head of Technical Training at Dangote Academy, said that Dangote Cement Plc used electrostatic protestor to capture dust and recycle it into the system.
He said that the Dangote Academy had just planted a variety of fruit trees, including mango, soursop, dates, and orange trees.
The Dangote Academy annually plants thousands of trees, according to Adewale.
