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Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, who announced this information at the opening of a high-level session of the African Climate Week (ACW) in Accra Wednesday, said the tree planting exercise was part of the many programs set up by the government to mitigate the negative effects of climate change.
He said CCA would help public and private sector stakeholders to strengthen their efforts to secure international funding to complement the efforts of developing countries to tackle the debilitating effects of climate change.
"Ghana is confident that its pursuit of tangible climate development can offer real investment opportunities for the sake of its sustainable development agenda," said Professor Frimpong-Boateng.
The theme of the five-day event is "Action for 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 the United Nations. Ghana and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). ).
It brought together various actors from the public and private sectors around the world.
Prof. Frimpong-Boateng said that investments in climate change actions have significant direct development benefits and ambitious climate targets, leading to an annual reduction in emissions of two million tonnes of gas. Greenhouse effect.
Currently, the country is implementing climate change programs to promote renewable energy, reduce deforestation and forest degradation, support the adaptation of clean cooking, provide electricity supply. low carbon, strengthen resilience in arid savanna lands and invest in defense walls.
Beyond these investments, Professor Frimpong-Boateng said the government is investing vigorously in green rural industrialization via One-District, One Factory, water access for smallholder farmers vulnerable farmers in the One-Village, One Dam and agricultural production through Planting for Food. and jobs.
He said climate change is the biggest challenge facing the world, affecting all communities, nations and citizens.
He added that climate change is having a negative impact on many people's freshwater sources and threatening food security due to the rising temperatures and prolonged air currents that have made the areas fertile. for unproductive livestock farming and breeding.
It also endangers the lives of half of the world's population living in coastal cities because of rising sea levels, calamities and destruction of infrastructure, as well as vital ecosystems such as forestry. and coral reefs.
Professor Frimpong-Boateng said that in Ghana, the impact of climate change was affecting the drivers of the economy such as agriculture, industry, energy and infrastructure.
For example, farmers are unable to predict rainfall patterns, precipitation becomes erratic in the northern savannah, the dry season is longer and more intense, and the water mbades dry up shortly after the season. rain due to high temperatures.
The minister said the country's focus on climate change over the past decade has been to establish a policy framework conducive to implementing Ghana-determined contributions (NDCs) in Ghana.
As a result, the country ratified the Paris Climate Agreement in 2016 and began implementing some of the actions in the NDCs. He has now focused on strengthening the implementation of actions for the climate.
The ACW would help to implement the priority actions defined in the NDCs and to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreements on Climate.
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