Electricity production in 2015 was 676 ktoe with 99.7 per cent of it produced from hydro sources. Final consumption of electricity in the same year was 613 ktoe (AFREC, 2015).

In 2013, Gambia’s population was 1.86 million. Total production of electricity in 2015 was 28 ktoe with 96.4 per cent produced from fossil fuels. In 2015, final consumption of electricity was 21 ktoe (AFREC, 2015).

Carbon dioxide removal (sometimes called carbon removal or CDR) refers to a cluster of technologies, practices and approaches that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Despite the common denominator of removing carbon dioxide, these technologies can be very different.