Green Ghana Seedlings Not For Sale; Free For All - Lands Minister
Green Ghana Seedlings Not For Sale; Free For All - Lands Minister
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Green Ghana Seedlings Not For Sale; Free For All - Lands Minister
Green Ghana Seedlings Not For Sale; Free For All - Lands Minister
Gov’t Promotes Responsible Small Scale Mining; Launches 100 Mercury-Free Gold Kacha Machines
Mining is the fourth driver of deforestation—accounting for 7% of tropical and sub-tropical forest loss. Through its Climate-Smart Mining initiative, the World Bank Group and PROFOR published in 2019 a series of reports identifying the impacts of artisanal and large-scale mining on deforestation worldwide and highlighting good and bad practices in forest-smart mining.
During a kickoff meeting that took place in Kananga, in the DRC’s Kasai region last week, the Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC), together with the DRC’s Ministry of Mining and its subdivisions SAEMAPE and CEEC, NGO DDI@RESOLVE and tech company Everledger initiated OrigemA, a pilot project that aims to set up a fully transparent, digitally enabled mine-to-market program for Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) cooperatives in the DRC.