President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said that placing a ban on galamsey has produced a fruitful outcome.
According to him, Ghana’s efforts to cut carbon emissions are benefiting from the prohibition on illicit mining has yielded positive results in the attainment of SDG Goals.
Speaking at the Nairobi, Kenya, 2023 Africa Climate Summit, the President mentioned that the country’s carbon emissions had decreased as a result of the ban on galamsey, which was harming water bodies and forest reserves.
According to President Akufo-Addo, a number of major policy measures, including Planting for Food and Jobs, One Village, One Dam, and the prohibition on illicit mining, have all helped to lower carbon emissions and strengthen the nation’s ability to adapt to climate change.
“We placed a ban on illegal mining the phenomenon we call galamsey which was destroying our water bodies, vegetation and our forest. Some 20, 000 young people have been engaged to plant more than 30 million trees in two years to create jobs and restore degraded lands.
“These policy initiatives are already yielding positive results in the attainment of SDG Goals, particularly the goal of reducing our carbon emissions,” President Akufo-Addo said.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
