About us
Our Vision and Mission
Our vision is to foster the development of an environmentally conscious corporate community and society, thereby bolstering resilience to climate change and facilitating the transition to a sustainable energy future.
Our mission to provide energy-efficient services to a wide range of clients (including enterprises, governments, and NGOs), creating a carbon-free society and economy, and encouraging sustainable climate practices.
Who We Are
CFAN consists of a multidisciplinary team of professionals with a robust academic foundation and extensive expertise in policy and industry. This enables us to provide innovative problem-solving services in climate change mitigation and adaptation, climate change analysis, climate-smart agriculture, energy transition analysis, energy and environmental auditing, and carbon management.
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Environmental/Climate Change Consulting
We promote corporate sustainability by implementing environmentally sound policies that can achieve the intended carbon mitigation and adaptation outcomes as part of their environmental management system.
Strategic Goal- Attaining compliance requirements, enhancing environmental performance, and accomplishing environmental and climate goals.
Carbon Management
We assist businesses in managing their carbon footprint. We offer eco-friendly solutions for long-term carbon management in a range of global carbon projects. Our team of experts offers validation and verification in compliance with international standards.
Strategic Objective - Assist organizations in developing carbon management frameworks to protect the environment.
Environmental/Energy Auditing
CFAN's skilled staff ensures performance of our clients align with their environmental protection goals. We employ a variety of management measures, including an organized, recorded, periodic, and objective assessment of an organization's environment, management, and equipment.
Strategic Goal- Adherence to company regulations, which are evaluated in relation to industry best practices and benchmarks.
Environmental Impact Assessment
By applying a life cycle perspective, we change an organization's strategy for preventing inadvertent shifts of environmental impacts elsewhere. The EIA that our team of experts provides has positive effects on finances and operations.
Strategic Goal- Ensure a sustainable alternative is implemented to improve the organization's standing in the market.
Project Management
Our competitive and strategic management principles effectively tackle risks and opportunities by incorporating environmental management into the organization's strategic direction, decision-making, and business processes.
Strategic Objective - Align business priorities with climate goals by incorporating environmental governance into overall management system.
E-Waste & Industrial/Hazardous Management
Technology has become an essential part of our daily lives and with it has emerged the problem of E-waste. By recycling electronic waste, we at CFAN prevent hazardous materials from ending up in landfills, safeguarding both human and wildlife.
Our approach to managing hazardous wastes includes cutting back on the production of hazardous materials, treating them to lessen their toxicity, and implementing sensible engineering controls to minimize or completely eliminate exposure to these wastes.
Strategic Goal- Maintaining our planet requires responsible e-waste management. Reusing materials from retired electronics help preserve limited resources and keeps potentially dangerous components out of the environment.
Eliminate hazardous waste's devastating effects on the environment and communities worldwide.
Capacity Building / Training
At CFAN, our goal is to provide people, organizations, and governments with the resources they require to reach their maximum potential and live free from food, energy and economic insecurity resulting from climate-related hazards. Our fundamental goal is to end energy poverty and build a low-carbon, climate-resilient, sustainable energy future for individuals and companies alike.
Strategic Objective - Establish a workforce that is climate-resilient in improving organizational growth via environmentally friendly means.
Research
At CFAN we bring the fruits of research closer to the people. We provide cutting edge technologies mindful of requirements of a changing world. Our research focus on critical concerns of our client in a world faced with uncertainties of climate change and economic growth needs of our clients alongside shareholders returns. Our team utilize GIS data, climate mapping, and estimation for predicted future climate changes.
Strategic Thrust- Make the fruit of research available to businesses, people and the environment.
Environmental Advocacy
Our environmental advocacy presents information on ecological issues as a way to encourage our audiences to adopt more environmentally sensitive practices and biocentric worldviews. Our activities are:
Strategic Goal- Preserving the environment by giving individuals and organizations the means to adapt to shifting weather patterns while keeping the organization's socioeconomic requirements in focus.
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Meet the Team
Dr. Austin Sadiq Okoh (CEO)
Dr. Okoh is the CEO of CarbonFree Africa Network. He is an energy and climate change research leader with 30 years of experience in the field. His past work includes the development and dissemination of high level institutional technical reports, climate governance/net-zero and energy transition/GHG accounting/capacity building expert.
Noel Casserly
Noel worked for many years with the Irish Government in the areas of environment, climate change and sustainable development. He led the Irish delegation at UN international negotiations
Dr Anthony Anuforom
Dr Anthony Anuforom Executive Chairman/CEOExecutive Chairman/CEO Global Environmental Services & Weather Solutions Ltd. He was former Director General/CEO, NiMet & Permanent Representative of Nigeria with WMO (2007 to 2017).
Dr. Samir Tantawi
Dr. Samir Tantawi is a qualified climate change consultant with over 27 years of professional experience in climate change planning and strategizing, he has Ph.D., Master, and Diploma degrees in climate change vulnerability & adaptation assessment and modelling and a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics. Between 2002 and 2013.
Allan Schwartz
Allan Schwartz established Mezimbite Forest Centre, almost 30 years ago, training and empowering indigenous people to become the producers of heirloom quality furniture, household goods and accessories, as an alternative to just logging and exporting noble hardwood raw.
Prof. John Osonwa
Prof. John Osonwa is a U.S. trained Climate Change, Environmental and Renewable Energy Expert with 25 years experience. He has served as Adjunct Professor globally, most recently at the University of Abuja. Prof. John Osonwa is a Consultant to the United Nations (UN) and the National Assembly of Nigeria.
Dr Eyene Okpanachi
Dr Eyene Okpanachi is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at University of South Wales, UK. His area of specialization is climate change policy, energy transition and natural resources governance. His interest is politics of institutional reforms and sustainable economic development and livelihoods.
Dr. Engr. Janet Adeyemi
Dr. Engr. Janet Adeyemi, is the founder and national President of Women in Mining (WIM). She is a specialist in ESG, Gender, Extractive, Renewable Energy, climate change and Innovation. Her post degree experience span over 40 years in various disciplines which allowed her worked with diverse groups and organizations.
