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Parliament to receive climate change report soon
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Accra,
Oct. 7, GNA - The Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology
(MEST), would soon present a draft report on climate change to
Parliament.
The report, after consideration by Parliament, would become Ghana's
policy on climate to be presented at the United Nation's Climate Change
Conference scheduled for Copenhagen, Denmark, in December this year. Mr
George Kojo Scott, Chief Director at MEST, announced these in Accra on
Tuesday, when a delegation from the Abibimman Foundation and Ghana
National Youth Coalition on Climate Change, both non-governmental
organisations (NGOs), visited the Ministry in Accra on Monday. He noted
that climate change had affected the country's two usual farming
seasons and threatened food security.
Mr Scott said the Ministry was concerned about the effects of climate
change on the country and the authorities would institute strategies
such as tree planting to reverse the trend. He appealed to developed
countries to initiate measures that could help reduce the impact of
climate change on the globe while developing countries devised means to
limit its effects. Mr Kwabena Okai Ofosuhene, Chief Executive Officer
of the Coalition, said the visit was to create awareness that effort
towards the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals was being
threatened by the effects of climate change. "We cannot wait, but stand
up and take action to end climate change and poverty now," he said.
The Coalition would provide people at the grassroots a platform to
participate in global campaigns on climate change and poverty issues
and the delegation in particular would embark on a nation-wide tour to
collate inputs for the report. Towns to be visited included Tumu,
Nyariga, Bongo, Bolgatanga, Savelugu Techiman, Kibi, Kumasi, Keta,
Asutuare and Ashaiman. This forms part of a project dubbed: "Climate
Justice Poverty Hearing" that was being sponsored by the Global
Campaign for Climate Action, a global conservation initiative, and
World Wide Fund for Nature, an international NGO, working on issues
concerning the conservation, research and restoration of the
environment. It was expected to be implemented in areas where climate
change has caused variations in the weather pattern.
Source:
GNA
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Kenneth Nana Amoateng
Abibimman Foundation
Ghana National Youth Coalition on Climate Change (GNYCCC)
GCAP/MDGs-Ghana
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E-Mail: abibimmanfoundation (at) gmail.com,amoatengken (at) yahoo.com
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