Mohamed A. Sultan

We regulate, we enforce and we track.

And that's exactly what the government of Nigeria has been trying to do.

It has essentially passed progressive regulation to ensure that it is banning flaring.

Enforcement is where the challenge is, obviously, but they're doing so because it makes sense from a public health perspective and it saves lives.

But it also fundamentally makes economic sense.

It creates a potential revenue stream for government from noncompliant actors, but it also reduces energy waste in a country that is plagued with energy insecurity.

Regulate, enforce and track.

Let's talk about something else.

Rice.

Some of you are smiling.

I know you love it.

Many people love it.

It's a major global food crop.

In fact, it is consumed by billions of people from Tokyo to my hometown in Conakry in Guinea.

And we will need to be producing more of it to meet food security demands.

And rice production is actually both affected by climate change and partly contributes to it because it emits methane.

Think about the millions of farmers who grow it.

Typically what they do is they flood their fields.

By flooding the field, oxygen cannot get into the soil, and it creates the conditions for methane to emerge.

And so how do we solve this?