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Name Affiliation Title Kotaro Taniguchi Counselor and Deputy General Manager, Sustainability Promotion Office, Planning Department
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Date: November 20, 2025
Organized by Daikin Industries, Ltd.
Co-sponsored by JICA
Name of Venue (Pavilion Name)：Nigeria Pavilion
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Name Affiliation Title Mustapha Abdullahi Director General, Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN) Kyosuke Inada Special Advisor, Sustainability Promotion, JICA Uboho Ekpo Principal Scientific Officer, National Council on Climate Change (NCCC), Nigeria Officer Takahiro Asahi, Manager, External Relations Office, Tokyo Branch, Daikin Industries, Ltd.
Background and Objectives
Nigeria’s population growth and economic growth have led to a rapid increase in demand for air conditioners. The diffusion of high-efficiency air conditioners is important for both climate change mitigation and adaptation measures. Daikin Industries, Ltd. is currently conducting a “Business feasibility study on the diffusion of high-efficiency inverter air conditioners using the low-GWP refrigerant R32 in Nigeria” (June 2024 – March 2026), utilizing JICA’s SME and SDG Business Support Program. In this seminar, we introduced the results of the study and discussed the systems and issues necessary for the further diffusion of high-efficiency air conditioners.
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In his opening remarks, Mustapha Abdullahi of the Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN) emphasized the importance of high-efficiency air conditioners in Nigeria, where population growth is high and cooling demand is high, and that the country is working to introduce high-efficiency air conditioners, including the planned implementation of the Minimum Energy Consumption Efficiency Standards (MEPS) in December 2026. He introduced the country’s efforts to introduce high-efficiency air conditioners, including the planned implementation of minimum energy consumption efficiency standards (MEPS) in December 2026.
Mr. Inada, JICA’s Special Advisor to the President, introduced the SME and SDGs Business Support Program being implemented in cooperation with relevant organizations on the Nigerian side.
Mr. Uboho Ekpo of the Nigerian National Council on Climate Change (NCCC) stated that high-efficiency air conditioners will contribute both mitigation and adaptation measures to the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
Mr. Asahi of Daikin Industries, Ltd. reported that, as a result of a comparison experiment between a high-efficiency air conditioner with an inverter function and a conventional air conditioner without the same function in the SME SDGs Business Support Project, the results showed that high-efficiency air conditioners should be introduced not only for their greenhouse gas emission reduction effect but also for their cost. The results showed that high-efficiency air conditioners should be installed not only to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but also in terms of cost.
In the panel discussion, the panelists discussed the importance of institutional support, cost issues, and awareness-raising and capacity-building for the further diffusion of high-efficiency air conditioners.
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