Ghana requires $22.6 billion to combat climate change, according to Climate Change Minister Seidu Issifu. This investigative report examines Ghana’s climate finance gap, global partnerships, flooding, renewable energy challenges, and the economic risks threatening vulnerable communities.
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President Mahama pledges to resume Ghana’s $150M WACA coastal protection project amid rising tidal threats in the Volta Region. This investigative report examines delays, funding concerns, and the human impact of coastal erosion.
Residents of Meduma, led by MP Akwasi Gyamfi Onyina-Acheampong, embark on a massive clean-up exercise and road repairs as authorities crack down on illegal waste disposal and poor sanitation practices in the Afigya Kwabre East Constituency.
This investigative report exposes how Chinese-owned trawlers using illegal light fishing and undersized nets are decimating Ghana’s fish stocks, costing the nation over $50 million annually while pushing 100,000 artisanal fishers toward poverty, despite government promises of a new Marine Protected Area.
Ghana’s first Marine Protected Area at Cape Three Points promises to restore declining fish stocks, but key questions on boundaries, enforcement, funding, and community consultation remain unanswered.
Over 30,000 Ghanaians die from air pollution each year, but the official monitors don’t see what Agbogbloshie breathes. One grandmother’s story exposes the gap between data and deadly reality.
When the rains stop trusting the sky, a farmer in northern Ghana reads the wind, the radio, and the satellite. This is the human face of climate adaptation.
Ghana launches a new EU-funded forest governance project to strengthen FLEGT implementation, tree tenure reform, and community participation following Africa’s first FLEGT licence issuance, aiming to ensure sustainable timber trade and inclusive forest management.
Umar Musah lost his father. Jeremiah Duyab lost his farm. With climate change shrinking grazing land and no national policy on reserves, Ghana’s farmer-herder crisis is spilling across borders.
Ghana is unlocking billion-dollar carbon market opportunities under the Paris Agreement by strengthening national carbon market capacity, advancing Article 6 carbon trading, attracting global investors, and positioning itself as Africa’s leader in high-integrity carbon credit markets and climate finance.