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AAP to develop checklist to measure climate change impact

By Fred SARPONG

The Africa Adaptation Project (AAP) office in Ghana, in collaboration with stakeholders in agriculture, education, and health, among others, is to develop a checklist to measure the impact of climate change in every sector of Ghana’s economy.
Winfred Nelson, AAP Ghana Project Manager, disclosed this to BusinessWeek in an interview in Accra last week.
According to him, hopefully by the end of this June the AAP will choose the consultant and sign the contract. “The consultant will develop the terms of reference before they start work. By end of June it will be ready,’ he added.
Jonathan Azasoo, of National Development Planning Committee (NDPC), on his part, said, ‘As a lay person, we hear of climate change and we all speak climate change, but specifically we don’t know what to look out for when talk about climate change. We normally predict when it is going to be rainfall, but what are the things to look out for and to say that these are due to climate change?’

He pointed out that even finance is included because climate change affects production, saying that when it happens, people become unemployed and this worsens the impact of poverty level.

‘Because there is no rainfall, no output, no job, unemployment increase, so all these stakeholders must come together to help solve these problems,’ he added.
Azasoo stated that everybody attributes everything to climate change, but not all of them may relate to climate change, adding 'there must be some specific things, which when you see then you can confirm that this is due to climate change.’
He noted that “we need this checklist to be able to identify the symptoms of climate change. How do we mitigate it and how do we adapt it?’

He was of the view that “we need the checklist so that we can have uniformity and also to know what to look out for, otherwise we will collect data and after that we will realise that about 80% is not necessary.”

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