By Waziri Isa Adam
Education Monitor is glad to present and rejoice with Dr Musa Ajiya, for publishing three good books in the recent times that are making rounds in the intellectual global space in USA, Germany, France, and Amazon. Dr Musa Ajiya has also published numerous articles on contemporary issues in national dailies and high impact academic Journals of international repute.
Dr Musa Ajiya has worked for a span of a decade in various private financial organizations before joining the services of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in the year 2006 as the Chief Resource Mobilization Officer. He rose the ranks to become a Deputy Registrar in the University. Dr Musa Ajiya graduated from University of Maiduguri in 1992 with B.Sc. (Hons) in Economics; after obtaining a Diploma in Accountancy in 1987 from the same Institution. He also obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Management, Master in International Affairs & Diplomacy (MIAD), Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in International Relations at Ahmadu Bello University in the year 1999, 2000, 2015 and 2023 respectively.
Dr Musa Ajiya is a member of various recognized registered professional bodies, among which are a fellow of the Institute of Administration of Nigeria; and Associate Member of: Nigerian Institute of Management; Fellow, Environmental Management and Disaster Risk Reduction Institute (FEMDRRI); Associate Member of the Certified Public Accountant of Nigeria; Association of University Administrators U.K.; and Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), UK.
Dr Musa Ajiya three different books published recently revealed how human interaction with the environment can lead to its degradation and human eventual self-destruction, if not manage well. He took a hard look on the new world we are creating, the pervasive impacts of human beings on the planet and move on to question how to positively transform nature to serve humanity. In one of the books, he touches on the major crises facing the Nigeria oil sector, its fossil fuel exploitation by state and non-state actors with its attendant releases of greenhouse gasses/GHGs into the atmosphere and what can be done to mitigate it. Other published books of his, delves on exploring the alternative sources of clean energy and how interventions, especially in finances, can easily be secured to mitigate global energy crises:
Ajiya, Musa (2023). Alternatives Window for African Energy Transition: A Panacea to Climate Change Crises. Eliva Press. ISBN-10:9994986732. ISBN-13:978-9994986736. April 27th. The book is available on Amazon for $60.00:
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Ajiya, Musa (2023). An Examination of Remedies Oil Extractive Externalities: A Study of the Rivers State of Nigeria’s Oil Industry. Eliva Press. ISBN-10:9994987143. ISBN-13:978-9994987146. March 19th. The book is available on Amazon for $89.50:
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Ajiya, Musa (2023). Understanding Climate Finance: The Myth, Processes and Accessibility. Eliva Press. ISBN-10:9994985833; ISBN-13:978-9994985838. January 22nd. The book is available on Amazon for $38.50:
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The result of these publications here above is what culminated in the invitation to speak at “International Summit on Non- Renewable and Renewable Energy” scheduled to hold on August 14-16, 2023 in London, UK. The attached is the Brochure for the conference as appendix I and the Website Link is as follows: https://www.spectrumconferences.com/2023/isnre.
THE SYNOPSIS OF THE FIRST BOOK: “ALTERNATIVES WINDOW FOR AFRICAN ENERGY TRANSITION: A PANACEA TO CLIMATE CHANGE CRISES” dissected how ‘extreme weather conditions and greenhouse gas emissions are wreaking havoc worldwide and causing a rise in global temperature to exceed the 1.5-degree-Celsius global threshold. The energy sector is the source of close to three-quarters of greenhouse gas emissions today and holds the key to averting the worst effects of climate change. With discovery of new fossil fuel frontiers and many nation-states joining the league of fossil fuel producing countries, it appears that reliance on fossil fuel and greenhouse gas emissions might not fizzle soonest. Thus, this book examined climate change phenomenon in Africa vis-à-vis her over reliance on fossil fuel, her vulnerabilities, opportunities and available strategies for mitigation and adaptation. Using the principles enunciated by Theories of “Tragedy of the Commons” and “Collective Action Problem”, this book seeks to interrogate the available sources of renewable energy and how a shift from fossil fuel-based energy sources would help reduce climate change and its impact.
The book concluded that renewable energy technologies provide an exceptional opportunity for mitigation of greenhouse gas emission and reducing global warming through substituting conventional energy sources – fossil fuel based, and investing in renewables such as in batteries/electric vehicles, biomass, hydro, solar and wind energy. Africa should also widen the carbon sink prospects by saving what remains of its forests, capping agricultural emissions, and developing carbon capture and storage technologies, rise emission taxes and emission trading system, increasing international cooperation; and ensuring a just transition that leaves nobody behind, will be decisive in determining her success in confronting climate change emergency and saving the earth.
THE SYNOPSIS OF THE SECOND BOOK TITLED: AN EXAMINATION OF REMEDIES TO OIL EXTRACTIVE EXTERNALITIES: A STUDY OF SHELL PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY INITIATIVES IN RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA (1999-2021). The book sought to unearth the root of profound crises facing oil and gas industry with particularly reference to the devastation it has being causing to ecosystem. By interrogating the specific dialectics inherent the remedial measures being employed to redress oil spills, gas flaring and environmental degradation, the book was able to established the lacunas associated with the remedial measures being employed which causes conflict in Rivers State, thereby worsening Nigeria’s politico-socio-economic crisis and by extension contributing to climate change/global warming. The world can only ignore this at its own peril.
Eight specific thematic independent variables covering oil spills; sludge dumps; gas flaring; compensation; restitution; revenue allocation; taxation; government regulation; were thoroughly examined across the broad spectrum of five most affected OBCs of the Rivers State vis-a-vis Shell’s facilities and operations to arrive at its findings. The book found out that beyond the well-known established oil environmentally induced causative conflict factors, are the deeper unresolved complexity and contradictions embedded in these aforementioned measures being employed to redress negative oil externality. Issues such as archaic laws, restrictive private ownership of resources beneath the earth, limited compensation criteria accorded to victims of negative oil externality, disempowered people, lack of political will to implement the various far-reaching scientific discoveries made in the frontier of alternative sources of energy, robotics engineering, and poor environmental remediation technics, were identified as the main challenges fueling the conflict in Rivers State.
The book concluded that as long as the ‘oil companies’ continued to operate with impunity, plundering the lives and material wealth of the OBCs without regard to the rule of law or global best practices, the ideals of liberty, safer environment and peaceful coexistence will not be realized or will remain very much at a very high price. The book therefore, recommended measures such as the review of oil and gas inimical policies and archaic laws, transition to renewal energy, climate finance and carbon pricing, relocation of people away from oil exploitation bartered areas to any safest and well catered place, and good remediation technologies, as the panacea for sustainable pollution-free oil and gas operation and stable environment devoid of rancor, avarice, acrimony and altercation.
THE THIRD BOOK IS TITLED: UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE FINANCE: THE MYTH, PROCESSES AND ACCESSIBILITY is geared towards providing strategies on how ‘financial resources’ can be mobilized by vulnerable countries that are worst hit by the impact of climate change from institutional investors and/or industrialized countries to address the climate crisis. Climate change is one of the contemporary issues that present the biggest threat to humanity and its constituent environment. The poorest and most vulnerable communities of world are worst hit by changing pattern of climate change believed to have been caused by human interaction with the environment and activities of the industrial world. By focusing on investing in climate solutions – a strategy which, in many cases, yields above market rate returns (MRR), depending on asset class and fund selection, the book explored the nature and character of climate risks, innovative climate financing instruments, broadening the investors base, expanding the involvement of multilateral development banks and development finance institutions, and strengthening climate information, as key to solving climate crises.
Conscious of the fact that the world needs to invest an estimated $5.7 trillion annually in green infrastructure and other adaptation and mitigation efforts given by the United Nations, the book therefore provides mechanisms to address climate finance gap. Developed countries need to finance at least US$100 billion a year towards these ends. This includes closing finance gaps for both mitigation and adaptation. The estimated global gap for adaptation is large and widening. Adaptation costs in developing countries are expected to rise to up to US$340 billion a year by 2030. The gap for mitigation is even larger, put at US$850 billion per year by 2030. If rich countries turn words into action, this could still prove to be the age of intervention rather than the age of impotence. But that’s the choice.
At the global level, countries can tap a variety of funds and institutions for support, including the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) and the Least Developed Country Fund (LDCF) created under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Adaptation Fund (AF) under the Kyoto Protocol, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the World Bank, and other UN and intergovernmental organizations and programmes. Countries can also participate in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). At the conference of parties’ 16th meeting alias ‘COP16’ held in 2010, Parties established the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and in 2011 also designated it as an operating entity of the financial mechanism. The book also encouraged investing in the social and moral components of climate solutions such as ‘deforestation and unwarranted bush burning’ that appears on the face value to give zero financial return because of the long-term positive effects associated with saving lives and our mother planet.
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