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...
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Emmanuel Ameyaw
[APPLY] Feature Reporting Fellowship
Early-career journalists around the world are eligible for a reporting fellowship. Rest of World is accepting applications for the Feature Reporting Fellowship. The program helps early-career journalists embark on an...
Destruction of Protected Forests – CSOs threaten legal action against government
A group of civil society organizations have threatened to sue the government of Ghana over what they describe as deliberate failure to protect forest reserves in the country. The CSOs – Arocha Ghana, Tropenbos...
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...
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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...
“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...
Climate change made the dangerous humid heatwave in West Africa 10 times more likely
Human-caused climate change made the humid heatwave in southern West Africa during February ten times more likely, according to rapid analysis by an international team of leading climate scientists from the World...
Ghana risks 2 million deaths from extreme weather conditions – World Bank report
The country risks the death of two million people in the next thirty years from extreme weather conditions like floods and drought if measures are not instituted to combat climate change, a new World Bank report on the...
Reclaiming Ghana’s Forests: The Devastating Impact of Illegal Gold Mining
Ghana’s forests were once places of balance. From the northern savannahs to the southern rainforests, the land offered both beauty and function. The scent of fresh soil after rain, the shade of Wawa trees, and the...
Afia Agyapomaa Ofosu
13 containers of Rosewood Impounded at Tema Port
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, working in collaboration with the National Security and Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority has impounded thirteen containers of rosewoods. The thirteen...
