Verso l’Atlante mondiale dell’Unburnable Carbon: cartografie e scenari di phasing out dai combustibili fossili in Nigeria”(Toward the Global Atlas of Unburnable Carbon: cartography and scenario of phasing out from fossil fuels in Nigeria)

Nigeria is one of the world's leading hydrocarbon exporting countries, the first on the African continent. The development of the fossil fuels energy sector has allowed for strong growth in economic and demographic rates over the past two decades. However, the economic benefits are unevenly distributed among the population. Furthermore, obsolete infrastructure and adopted extraction practices have caused severe impacts on local communities and ecosystems. particularly (but not only) in the Niger River Delta area. This study is part of the research project "The world Atlas of Un- burnable Carbon, and through the combination of a multicriteria analysis in a GIS environment, with the principles of Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty traces possible future scenarios for sustainable development and climate change mitigation in Nigeria as an alternative to the fossil energy sector. The multi-criteria analysis has, therefore, allowed for the development of an environmental, socio-economic and political assessment of oil activity, proposing possible areas where oil could be kept in the ground with a view to a just energy transition.