Ghana is doing well in the fight against the effects of climate change – Frimpong Boateng

General News of Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Source: atinkaonline.com

2019-03-20

The Minister of Environmental Science, Technology, Innovation and Innovation (MESTI), Professor Frimpong Boateng, welcomed Ghana's contributions to mitigating the effects climate change and adaptation to its effects.

Although Ghana is one of the least contributing countries to greenhouse gas emissions, it is now part of the solution as climate change has also become a global threat to our survival.

In this regard, the government and the EPA with other stakeholders have implemented operational elements called nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to be implemented in different sectors of the economy to promote the development and protect the environment.

Speaking to the press at the International Conference Center in Accra, on the second day of the African Climate Change Week, Professor Frimpong Boateng highlighted Ghana's promotion of green energy, energy efficiency and energy efficiency. the use of solar energy, biombad, wind power and nuclear energy. And a few years ago, "we had about 2.4 mg of green energy in terms of solar energy, we now have about 50 mg of solar energy.

We believe that in northern savannah areas they are taking action to mitigate climate change and adapt by building dams that are adaptation projects.

Still on the issue of plastics endangering the environment, he said the government and the ministry had developed a policy on plastics that would be largely recycled to do something else. Plastics, he said, should not be considered a "bad thing".

Ghanaians should therefore change their attitude towards waste by providing garbage cans and not rely solely on Gov & # 39; t.

He hinted that if the ban on plastics was a thing to do, shopping bags should be banned and put up cotton bags. Chewing gum and plastic cutlery must also be banned.

Meanwhile, for Ghana to achieve all these goals and to do more, a mbadive US $ 22.6 billion must be generated by government and national institutions, as well as by international institutions.

Yaw Ansu, Senior Advisor to the Minister of Finance, spoke about the government's readiness to make this money. He added that, presumably, some oil revenues would be used in the context of the $ 22.6 billion US.