LEGAL REGIME OF AIRCRAFT ENGINE EMISSIONS IN NIGERIA: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL

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Current Edition, Volume.13 Issue.1 2025

Published: March 19, 2025

Abstract
Nigeria’s legal regime of aircraft engine emissions is a novel area. The first Nigeria Civil Aviation
Regulation on environmental protection was enacted in 2015, it is barely a decade since emissions from
the aviation sector have been regulated in Nigeria. However, this paper is focused on the legal regime
of aircraft engine emissions in Nigeria, appraising the laws that ordinarily should make provisions for
comprehensive environmental protection within Nigeria. This paper aims to critically examine the
statutory provisions relating to aircraft engine emissions in Nigeria. Findings revealed that laws
regulating aircraft engine emissions in Nigeria are basically on certification of aircraft engines, and
nothing more. Further discoveries show that Nigeria does not have a carbon emission reduction plan
apart from the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Carbon Offsetting and Reduction
Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) and the Green-Sky-Green Programme. There is also no
action plan for aviation and climate change action. This paper adopted the doctrinal research
methodology and it examined laws on aircraft engine emissions in Nigeria. The reduction plan is central
and goes beyond the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Carbon Offsetting and
Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) and the Green Sky Green initiative. Nigeria
should have an aviation and climate change action plan and implement these plans effectively.

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