Kofi Ahovi

  The West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) has called for stronger collaboration among governments, researchers, development partners, the private sector and communities to translate climate commitments into practical actions that improve livelihoods and build resilience across West Africa. Speaking at a World Environment Day celebration and Climate Action Dialogue in Accra, WASCAL Executive Director, Prof. Emmanuel Wendsongre Ramde, said the impacts of climate change are already being felt across the region through floods, droughts, heat stress, ecosystem degradation and threats to agriculture, health and livelihoods. The event, held under the theme “ From Global Commitments to Practical Implementation: Youth, Science and Diplomacy for Climate Action, ” brought together policymakers, diplomats, researchers, development partners, media practitioners, entrepreneurs and youth leaders to discuss pathways for implementing climate solution...

  ...Call on government to enforce its directives The earth plays multiple roles in human lives, including being a source of livelihood, protecting biodiversity and providing clean air for all. The Earth plays hosts to forests which cover 31% of total land area of the earth while at the same time supporting 80% of terrestrial biodiversity. Many of the world’s most threatened and endangered animals live within these forests, or underneath the earth crust making them crucial to sustaining ecosystems. Forests serve as home to more than 300 million people worldwide and other animal species. The earth provides many important natural resources such as timber, fuel, rubber, paper, medicinal plants and minerals. Forests also help to sustain the quality and availability of freshwater supplies. More than three quarters of the worlds’ accessible freshwater comes from forest catchments. Water quality declines with decreases in forest condition and cover, and increases the natural hazards such ...

 Zoomlion Ghana Limited has organised a massive clean up exercise in Madina in the La Nkwantanang Municipality in Accra to create public awareness on environmental sanitation in commemoration of World Environment Day. The activities included weeding on the shoulders of the principal streets, manual and mechanical sweeping of the roads, waste collection as well as desilting of choked gutters among others. The exercise was undertaken by staff of Zoomlion and it's subsidiaries under the Environment and Sanitation Cluster of the Jospong Group of Companies in collaboration with the La Nkwantanang Municipal Assembly, the security services such as the Ghana Police and the Armed Forces who offered security support throughout the exercise. In an interview after the exercise, Managing Director of Zoomlion, Gloria Opoku Anti appreciated the workers for the expression of their social and community service spirit in helping actualise Zoomlion's aim of executing the massive clean-up perfectl...