Ghana is developing its first Biodiversity Policy aimed at reducing threats to its over 6,000 flora and fauna to promote the sustainable utilization of biodiversity and benefits sharing to meet the people’s needs. The...
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Deputy Lands Minister orders immediate closure of landfill at Sakumono Ramsar site
Benito Owusu-Bio, the Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources has demanded the immediate shutdown of landfill site at the Sakumono Ramsar site. Owusu-Bio came across the place reserved for the dumping of waste...
Minister Guilbeault announces $20 million support to Ghana and four African countries to fight climate change
From devastating droughts to deadly heatwaves, developing countries are some of the hardest hit by climate change, yet often have limited capacity to prevent and adapt to the effects. For people around the world, Canada...
Emmanuel Ameyaw
“We’ll Combat Climate Change, But Protect Ghana’s Development As Well” – President Akufo-Addo
“Ghana acknowledges the importance and effects of Climate Change, and the urgent need to combat it, and we acknowledge equally the importance of protecting our development. We believe that a balance must be struck and...
Prof. Ama Browne Klutse Appointed as CEO of EPA Ghana
Professor Nana Ama Klutse has been appointed by President John Dramani Mahama as the Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A distinguished climate scientist and advocate for...
Green Climate Finance approves nine climate mitigation activity programmes from Ghana
Nine proposals by Ghana on climate change mitigation and adaptation activities to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for funding as part of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) have been approved. Some nine others are...
Climate Financing: Ghana strives to mobilise 22 billion dollars for NDCs
Ghana intends to mobilize US$22.6 billion investment over a 10-year period, from 2020-2030 to implement its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in fulling its obligation towards the Paris Climate Agreement. The...
Ghana’s Private Sector wooed into climate financing
A Private Sector Climate Change Investment forum has opened in Accra to give the sector players the avenue to explore climate investment opportunities as well as help Ghana implement its Nationally Determined...
AMA to enforce 30% green surrounding policy – Accra Mayor
The Mayor of Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Nii Adjei Sowah, has hinted that plans are far advanced for the reintroduction and enforcement of a mandatory bye law of the assembly that requires every household to...
Women leading the charge: Africa’s Climate future depends on it
“You can’t have climate justice without gender equality.” These words, spoken by Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate, echo a truth we can no longer afford to ignore. In Africa, where the impacts of climate change...
Afia Agyapomaa Ofosu
