In the central region of Ghana, over one hundred women gathered on Easter Saturday to receive donations from 350 Ghana Reducing Our Carbon (G-ROC) and Tribaverse. These two organizations share a passion for reducing carbon emissions and promoting sustainable practices to combat climate change.
350 Ghana Reducing Our Carbon (350 G-ROC), with funding from 350 Africa, has held a 2-days online training workshop to empower activists on how to carry out campaigns in this digital era. 350 G-ROC is a grassroots movement aimed at mobilizing and empowering young people in partnership with key stakeholders to actively champion the need
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Some selected members from various Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) working in the energy sector of the country have benefited under a day sensitization workshop focused on Ghana’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
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Captured under sustainable development goal 7, renewable energy according to experts is the most viable alternative source of clean energy for the world. Earlier analysis of future energy pathways shows that, it is technically possible to achieve improved energy access, air quality, and energy security simultaneously while avoiding dangerous climate change. In fact, a number
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A non governmental organization championing renewable energy in Ghana and fighting against the establishment of a coal fired plant in Ghana, 350 Ghana Reducing Our Carbon, has embarked on an outdoor campaign to sensitize Ghanaians on the effects of coal and the need for a renewable takeover of our energy sector. The group on the
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The lives of women are mostly affected by the impacts of COAL establishments. Thanks to WOMIN (https://womin.org.za/ ), we learnt that coal establishments have a lot of negative impact on our communities especially women such as health problems due to the pollution of water and air which causes miscarriages from drinking coal-polluted water and respiratory
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The move seeks to offer sustainable solutions to tackle the effects of climate change in Ghana. The students were drawn from six (6) senior high schools and Junior High Schools located in the La Dade-Kotopon District Assembly of the Greater Accra Region.
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Background: In the light of current global calls to end fossil fuel investments and rather focus on interventions that are climate friendly, the Volta River Authority (VRA) and its counterpart Shenzhen Energy Group Co., Ltd. (SEC) are still pursuing an agenda to construct a 2x350MW Supercritical Coal-fired Power Plant in Ghana. In October, 2016, the
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PART I Chibeze Ezekiel is a young Climate Change Analyst in Ghana certified as a Master Youth Trainer on Climate Change by the World Bank Institute (WBI). He has considerable other environmental work related interventions such as Biological Diversity (Biodiversity) and Forestry. His publications can be found on his blog – chibeze.blogspot.com August, 2016 Comments should
1. Background In January 2016, the Volta River Authority (VRA) in Ghana published a Scoping Notice to announce government’s intention to collaborate with the Shenzhen Energy Group Co., Ltd. of China (SEC) to develop a 2×350MW supercritical coal-fired generating units (including affiliated coal handling terminal), at Ekumfi within the coastal areas of the Ekumfi District
