By Joyce Danso Accra, July 13, GNA – Greenpeace Africa has launched Climate Justice Movement in Ghana with a call on the public to…
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Homowo clean-up: All shops must remain closed from 0600 hours to 12 noon — AMA
By Albert Allotey Accra, July 12, GNA – The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has directed that all shops and markets in the Central Business…
Support your environmental health units adequately to sustain the gains – Minister
By Samuel Dodoo Accra, July 10, GNA – Madam Lydia Seyram Alhassan, the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, has called on the Metropolitan,…
VRA starts stakeholder consultations towards spillage of Akosombo Dam
By Maxwell Awumah Ho, July 10, GNA – The Volta River Authority (VRA) has begun key stakeholder consultations over its intention to spill excess…
World’s tropical domain reeling from over-exploitation – President Akufo-Addo laments
By Stephen Asante Accra, July 07, GNA – President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appealed to global leaders to take decisive steps to stop…
Water Resources Commission engages stakeholders on L.I. for water resources pollution
By Florence Afriyie Mensah, GNA Kumasi, July 03, GNA – The Water Resources Commission is developing a Legislative Instrument (LI) to regulate the discharge…
Gov’t must make financing available for improved sanitation -Asiedu
By Florence Afriyie Mensah Kumasi, July 01, GNA – The government has been urged to increase financing on sanitation and water, to drive a…
AMA to start Homowo clean-up exercise at Ga-Mashie on July 2
By Albert Allotey Accra, June 28, GNA – The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) will start the Homowo clean-up exercise, dubbed: “Homowo Clean-up Campaign” at…
Atlantic Lithium has not started mining – EPA
By Prince Acquah Krofu (C/R), June 28, GNA – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has debunked rumours suggesting that Atlantic Lithium, the company undertaking…
Stakeholders holds workshop to validate communication plan for VBA
Accra, June 27, GNA – Global Water Partnership-West Africa, Volta Basin Authority (VBA) and Water Resources Commission have held a workshop to review and…
Stakeholders hold workshop to address environmental, social concerns of Volta River Basin
By Stanley Senya Accra, June 25, GNA – A three-day workshop to address environmental and social concerns in the Volta River Basin has opened…
Lagos ready to partner Jospong Group — Association of Waste Managers
Accra, June 22, GNA – The Lagos State Waste Managers Association of Nigeria (AWAMN) has expressed its readiness to partner with the Jospong Group…
Chiefs urged to champion activities to improve quality of water resources
By Fatima Anafu-Astanga Bolgatanga, June 21, GNA – Mr Jaap Boss, leader of the Blue Deal Water Project, has urged environmental chiefs at…
Political parties urged to include climate issues in manifestos
By Stanley Senya Accra, June 20, GNA – Miss Glory Emmanuella Appiah, National Coordinator of Ghana Youth Environmental Movement (GYEM), has called on political…
We need collective efforts to reverse high rate of environmental destruction – UNCCD
By Anthony Adongo Apubeo Bolgatanga, June 20, GNA – Dr Asher Nkegbe, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) National Focal Point, has…
Let’s embrace waste segregation
Accra, June 19, GNA – Madam Sandra Kyere, the Chief Executive Officer of Women in Water Sanitation and Climate Change , has advised the…
Ghana hosts workshop on Conserving Aquatic Biodiversity in African Blue Economy
Accra, June 19, GNA – Madam Ophelia Mensah Hayford, the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation (MESTI) today opened a two-day workshop on…
EU/LEAN Project to restore degraded lands in Western North
By Alex Baah Boadi Sefwi-Asawinso (WN/R), June 19, GNA – The European Union (EU) funded Landscape and Environmental Agility Across the Nation (LEAN) Project…
UF4D commemorates World Desertification Day in Tamale
By Albert Futukpor Tamale, June 19, GNA – The United Force for Development International (UF4D), an NGO, has joined the global community in commemorating…
Ghana hosts national workshop on the domestication of continental, global instruments
Accra, June 18, GNA – Madam Ophelia Mensah Hayford, the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation (MESTI) today opened a two-day workshop on…