Nigerian HR consultancy holds workshop for awareness on sustainable practices

In order to promote awareness surrounding the sustainability of economic practices in Nigeria, organisation transformation and HR management consultancy Renner & Renner Consulting has held a workshop in collaboration with the Department of Petroleum & Resources.

The focus of the workshop was to familiarise firms and executives with the latest reports on the energy outlook in Nigeria and around the world, and their status with respect to the Paris Climate Agreement stipulations on developmental projects. The workshop is targeted at firms working in the oil & gas domain.

The stipulations, which are clubbed under the Development Guidelines and Standards on Carbon Emission Reduction Monetisation for Oil & Gas Projects, provide an environmental framework within which to conduct oil & gas projects. The workshop was conducted in collaboration with government officials at Southern Hotels in lagos.

A number of major dignitaries attended the event, including Project Director at Renner & Renner Ibby Iyama and Jennis Anyanwu who represented the delegation from the Department of Petroleum & Resources. Other guests at the event were Yomi Ayodeji, Joseph Muds and Eugene Itua.

Iyama set the agenda for the meeting, asking for cooperation from the Department of Petroleum & Resources to help control the rapid increase in the carbon generation from gas flaring practices across the country. She suggested that the reduction of carbon should be taken up on a project basis.

Provided that these projects were conducted with diligence, Iyama has expressed her belief in their capacity to support clean energy generation across Nigeria. She lauded the Department of Petroleum & Resources for their work in the domain of clean energy thus far, and urged representatives from the agency to mobilise cooperation.

Nigeria is one of the largest economies in Africa, and is among those countries that is heavily dependent on the trade of oil & gas for its GDP. As a result, the economy’s gradual recovery from the global dip in oil prices has been accompanied by an increase in the intensity of work in the oil & gas sector.