CORSIA MRV Readiness
Federal Republic of Nigeria
Generated 2026-10-26 · All findings primary-sourced; gaps are stated, never inferred.
Stat block — CORSIA Central Registry
Chapter-3 participationParticipant from 1 Jan 2025
CORSIA States for Chapter 3 State Pairs, 5th Edition/Rev.1 (2024-09-27)
2019 baselinePilot-phase 2,270,594 t · 85%-of-2019 1,930,000 t
CCR Part II, 2nd Edition (2022-10-28)
2024 emissionsSubject 1,437,693 t · Not subject 535,618 t · Total 1,973,311 t
CCR Part III, 4th Edition (2025-10-31)
Verification bodynone as of this edition
CCR Part I, 13th Edition (2025-12-19)
CEF claims (2024)0
CCR Part IV, 1st Edition (2025-10-01) — one claim worldwide, a Singapore producer
Attributed operators(CORSIA Aeroplane Operator to State Attributions, 10th Edition, 2025-12-19 — not confirmed for the latest year (asterisked state))
| Operator | Method | Identifier | 2024 emissions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air Peace | ICAO Designator | APK | confidential (ICAO suppression) |
- Air Peace's Table 2 emissions figure is fully confidential ('-' in all three columns) — any 'Nigeria's obligation is X tonnes' claim must cite the state-pair total, never imply it is Air Peace's number.
- 2019→2024 comparability is directional only: confidential-row counts differ slightly between editions (12 excluded in 2019 vs 8 in 2024).
- Nigeria's 10th-Ed operator attribution is not confirmed for the latest year (asterisked state).
Annex 16 Vol IV — SARP-cited readiness checklist
| Requirement | SARP | Status | Evidence & source | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chapter-3 State-Pair participation decision notified to ICAO | 3.1.3 | met | Federal Republic of Nigeria elected to participate in CORSIA Chapter 3 from 1 January 2025, per ICAO "CORSIA States for Chapter 3 State Pairs", 5th Edition/Rev.1 (2024-09-27). | — |
| Aeroplane-operator attribution submitted | 1.2.2, 1.2.7 | met | 1 operator(s) attributed to Federal Republic of Nigeria under CORSIA 10th Edition (2025-12-19): Air Peace. Not confirmed for the latest year (10th Ed asterisk). | — |
| Verification body accredited in-State | 1.3.7, 4.4.2.2 (ISO/IEC 17011:2017) | gap | No ICAO-accredited national CORSIA verification body as of CCR Part I, 13th Edition (2025-12-19); operators must use a verification body accredited elsewhere. | See what the credit-stage record looks like → |
| State annual Emissions Report submitted to ICAO | 2.3.2.2 | met | Federal Republic of Nigeria is marked "Reported" in both the 2019 (CCR Part II, 2nd Edition) and 2024 (CCR Part III, 4th Edition) reporting-status appendices. | — |
| 2019 baseline on record | 1.4.3 | met | 2019 baseline on record for Federal Republic of Nigeria: pilot-phase 2,270,594 t, 85%-of-2019 baseline 1,930,000 t (CCR Part II, 2nd Edition, 2022-10-28). | — |
| CORSIA Eligible Fuel (CEF) claims recorded in the CCR | 2.3.3.3 | gap | Zero CEF claims recorded for Federal Republic of Nigeria (CCR Part IV, 1st Edition, 2024 reporting year — one claim worldwide, a Singapore producer). | Prepare transfer evidence for independent review → |
| Emissions Monitoring Plan (EMP) receipt & approval process | 2.2.2.1, 2.2.2.3, 2.2.2.6 | no public record | No public ICAO record confirms or denies this process exists in-State — verify with the designated authority. | — |
| Order-of-magnitude checks on Emissions & Cancellation Reports | 2.4.1.6, 4.4.1.6 (guidance: ETM Table 3-11, ~3h/operator) | no public record | No public ICAO record confirms or denies this process exists in-State — verify with the designated authority. | — |
| Offsetting-requirement calculation & operator notice | 3.2.1-3.2.6, 3.4.1-3.4.5 | no public record | No public ICAO record confirms or denies this process exists in-State — verify with the designated authority. | — |
| Data-gap estimation backstop (CERT) | 2.5.2.1 | no public record | No public ICAO record confirms or denies this process exists in-State — verify with the designated authority. | — |
| Error correction to reported emissions | 2.6.1-2.6.2 | no public record | No public ICAO record confirms or denies this process exists in-State — verify with the designated authority. | — |
| Emissions-unit cancellation oversight | 4.3.2, 4.4.1.6 | no public record | No public ICAO record confirms or denies this process exists in-State — verify with the designated authority. | — |
| Administrative-partnership option (delegation alternative) | 1.3.2-1.3.3 | no public record | No public ICAO record confirms or denies this process exists in-State — verify with the designated authority. | — |
Value-chain gaps & solutions
Grounding: study
Nigeria is a CORSIA participant (since 1 Jan 2025) with the continent's largest cassava feedstock base. Refinery co-processing of residue lipid streams (such as UCO, PFAD and POME oil), with the Dangote Petroleum Refinery as the credible host, is a limited first step: ASTM D1655 Annex A1 limits direct co-processing of these lipid feedstocks to 5% of the refinery feed by volume. A proposal to raise that limit to 30% (ASTM work item WK88158) has not been adopted. The longer path is cassava residues → ethanol → alcohol-to-jet (ATJ), where the binding constraint is certification, not availability: cassava residues have no ICAO default carbon intensity, so a project-specific LCA is required. Airlines, airports and Jet A-1 storage are present, but no SAF production, blending, offtake or uplift exists yet. The near-term task is moving named actors (NNPC New Energy, Dangote, NMDPRA) from intent to FID; Air Peace remains a prospective buyer only.
| Stage | Status | Missing roles |
|---|---|---|
| feedstock | partialpartial | structured residue aggregation at scale, CORSIA/EU-RED traceability & chain-of-custody, residue-removal sustainability governance, UCO/waste collection network for aviation |
| conversion | open gapplanned | no operational SAF production capacity, ASTM D7566 not yet recognised, no SAF refinery at FID, conversion pathway host not committed |
| blending | open gapabsent | no operational SAF blending, ASTM D7566 not formally recognised, no SAF airport-acceptance protocol, no neat-SAF handling/storage rules |
| uplift flight | partialpartial | no SAF offtake agreement, no SAF uplift at any Nigerian airport, domestic carriers cannot absorb SAF premium, book-and-claim not operationalised, no SAF-ready airport designation |
| credit | open gapplanned | no Nigeria-specific CORSIA-eligible certificate, CAS-NET accreditation in progress, no national SAF sustainability-governance framework, no SAF registry / book-and-claim linkage |
Carbon-intensity lookupwe produce it
The ICAO default lifecycle CI for a feedstock/pathway — or an honest 'no default, escalate'.
Feedstock recognition checkwe produce it
Whether a feedstock is ICAO-recognized, its waste/residue basis, and the standing conditions.
Sustainability criteria referencewe produce it
The CORSIA sustainability themes relevant to a question.
Find / aggregate a producerwe draft it
Candidate suppliers/aggregators and the missing links to reach refinery-gate volume.
Approval & Permitting Navigatorwe produce it
A SAF project approval-pathway map (site control → airport acceptance) + RACI + indicative docs.
Feedstock Mobilization Plannerwe draft it
A collection→refinery-gate mobilization plan + residue/food-security/traceability safeguards.
Price-Gap Calculatorwe draft it
The SAF cost-gap framework (four levers) + raw-gap arithmetic on user-supplied sourced figures.
Match a financierwe draft it
A shortlist of relevant funders/instruments for a project at this stage.
Capital-Stack Matchmakerwe draft it
A layered financing stack by value-chain segment (instrument menu + stack template).
Generate a chain-of-custody templatewe produce it
A CoC document scaffold aligned to ASTM D7566 + CORSIA traceability requirements.
Fuel-Spec & Airport-Acceptance workflowwe draft it
The D7566→D1655 transition + airport-acceptance checklist (docs, EI/JIG QC, storage, uplift).
CORSIA eligibility checkwe produce it
Pass / marginal / fail verdict against the ICAO ≥10% reduction criterion.
Draft a sustainability declarationwe draft it
A pre-filled, CADO-ready declaration draft handed to the existing form for finalization.
Sources
- CORSIA Central Registry (CCR): Information and Data for Transparency — Part I: List of Verification Bodies Accredited in States, 13th Edition (2025-12-19)
- CORSIA Central Registry (CCR): Information and Data for Transparency — Part II: Total CO2 Emissions for 2019 Aggregated for all Aeroplane Operators on each State Pair, 2nd Edition (2022-10-28)
- CORSIA Central Registry (CCR): Information and Data for Transparency — Part III: Total Annual CO2 Emissions and Information for Aeroplane Operators, 4th Edition (2025-10-31)
- CORSIA Central Registry (CCR): Information and Data for Transparency — Part IV: Information on CORSIA Eligible Fuels (CEF) Claimed, 1st Edition (2025-10-01)
- CORSIA Aeroplane Operator to State Attributions, 10th Edition (2025-12-19)
- CORSIA States for Chapter 3 State Pairs, 5th Edition/Rev.1 (2024-09-27)
- https://ncaa.gov.ng/media/bsapx1ke/act-saf-feasibility-study-on-sustainable-aviation-fuels-for-nigeria.pdf
- https://store.astm.org/d1655-26b.html
- https://www.astm.org/workitem-wk88158
- https://theenergyyear.com/news/nigeria-commissions-its-largest-jet-fuel-depot/
- https://www.thisdaylive.com/2024/10/18/oil-marketers-unveil-single-largest-aviation-fuel-depot-at-lagos-airport/
- https://www.thisdaylive.com/2024/10/22/eterna-aviation-business-soars-with-the-commencement-of-into-plane-operations-at-mma/
- ICAO CORSIA participating States (6th Ed.); NMDPRA, SON, NCAA public mandates; Dangote refinery and Air Peace public reporting; FAO cassava production data.
Federal Republic of Nigeria · advisory readiness summary built from public, dated ICAO sources. Not a regulatory determination or certification. Advisory readiness summary built from public, dated sources. Not a regulatory determination or certification.