By  OLASUNKANMI AKONI

LAGOS – As part of measures to mitigate various environmental threats, including climate change and its resultant health hazards, Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, and the state’s Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA, have drafted legislation on ambient quality control, especially vehicular emissions.

However, Lagos Air Quality Monitoring Study showed that between 2007 and 2009, vehicles contributed 43 per cent of ambient air pollution in Lagos.

Managing Director,LAMATA, Dr. Dayo Mobereola, who said this at a stakeholders meeting on the review of draft legislation, said his agency, in collaboration with LASEPA, was rising up to the challenge of combating the issue through standard setting, control and regulatory initiatives.

He said:  “All over the world, it has been established that the transport sector is emerging

as the fastest growing source of global Green House Gas, GHG, emissions. While efforts are being intensified globally towards addressing this major challenge.”