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By
Lydia Kukua Asamoah / Godwill Arthur-Mensah, RNG
Accra, March 20, GNA –
The government has employed nearly 20,000 people to plant 10 million trees
across the country to increase climate resilience to the realization of the
sustainable development program.
Professor Kwabena
Frimpong-Boateng, Minister of the Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation,
who announced it at the opening of a high-level session of the African Climate Conference
Week (ACW) in Accra Wednesday, said that the tree planting exercise was part of
the many programs implemented by the government to mitigate the negative effects
effects of climate change.
He said that the ACW would
to help public and private sector actors strengthen their actions in favor of
obtain international funding to complement the efforts of developing countries
combat the debilitating effects of climate change.
"Ghana is convinced that
its continuation of the tangible development of the climate can unlock real investments
for the greater good of its sustainable development program ",
Frimpong-Boateng said.
The five-day event is
on the theme: "Action for the climate in Africa: a race we can win", organized by the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in collaboration
with the Government of Ghana and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
He gathered
various public and private sector actors around the world.
Frimpong-Boateng
stated that investment in climate actions had high direct benefits for development and
strong climate targets, which led to an annual reduction in emissions of two
million tonnes of greenhouse gases.
Currently the nation
implements climate change programs to promote renewable energies,
reduce deforestation and forest degradation, by supporting the adaptation of
clean cooking, search for low-carbon electricity sources, build resilience worldwide.
the savannah dry land and investing in sea defense walls.
Beyond those
Frimpong-Boateng said the government is investing vigorously in
green rural industrialization through One-District, One Factory, access to
water for vulnerable smallholder farmers in the One-Village, One Dam project
production of programs and agriculture through Plantation for Food and Jobs.
He said climate change
was the biggest challenge facing the world and affecting all communities,
nation and citizen.
He said climate change
negatively affected the sources of fresh water for many people and threatened with food
safety due to rising temperatures and prolonged air currents making areas fertile
for crop cultivation and grazing of unproductive livestock.
It's also putting one in danger
life of half of the world's population living in coastal cities because of
the rise in sea level, causing calamities and destruction of infrastructure, as well as
vital ecosystems such as forestry and coral reefs.
Frimpong-Boateng
In Ghana, the impact of climate change has had an impact on the drivers of
economy such as agriculture, industry, energy and infrastructure.
For example, farmers
are unable to predict precipitation patterns, precipitation becomes erratic at
northern savanna zone, the dry season is longer and more intense as the water bodies dry up
early after the rainy season because of high temperatures.
The minister said that
Over the last decade, the country's focus on climate change has been to establish a
political framework conducive to the implementation of Ghana's National Action Plan
Determined Contributions (NDC).
The nation
ratified the Paris Climate Agreement in 2016 and started implementing some of the
actions in the NDCs and is now focusing on strengthening the implementation of the
actions for the climate.
The ACW would help
implement the priority actions defined in the NDCs and achieve the objectives of the
Paris climate agreements.
GNA
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