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Download logo The World Bank approved $103.4 million for Ghana to reverse land degradation and strengthen integrated natural resource management in about 3 million hectares of degraded landscapes, working with communities of the Northern Savannah Zone and the cocoa forest landscape. The cost of environmental degradation in Ghana due to unsustainable use of land for agriculture, […]
The Audit Service has, for the first time in 10 years, presented to Parliament all the 12 statutory Auditor-General’s Reports, including four performance audit reports required to be made available to the legislature by June 30, each year.
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia Monday opened the Regional Consultative Dialogue on Small Scale Mining and Deforestation in Tamale with a call on participants to be candid in their deliberations to build consensus in tackling the menace. Dr Bawumia said: “Issues relating to the exploitation of our natural resources must be insulated from partisan politics.” “Therefore, the deliberations at this regional consultative dialogue must be candid so that we are able to build a broad-based national consensus to stem the menace of illegal mining and deforestation.” The dialogue was or...
The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has called for an enhanced national dialogue on the sustainable exploitation of Ghana’s minerals, forest and wildlife resources to ensure that the lives of the living and generations yet unborn are not adversely affected by unregulated exploitation. Warning that the nation risks losing its forest cover, as well as the many beautiful rivers and streams if negative practices such as illegal mining and indiscriminate wood harvesting and burning are not curtailed, Dr Bawumia called for increased collaboration and engagements with stakeholders, espec...
/ Jueves 8 de Julio, 2021 Foto: Andina 5706 y 5881 , que proponen ampliar el proceso de formalización minera, fueron aprobados en el Pleno del Congreso pese a opiniones en contra del Minam y Minem, así como de la Defensoría del Pueblo y la Fiscalía Especializada en Materia Ambiental. En carta enviada al presidente Francisco Sagasti, 15 organizaciones civiles piden que se observe la autógrafa de ley. El pasado 30 de junio, el Pleno del Congreso aprobó los proyectos de ley 5706 y 5881, que proponen ampliar una vez más el plazo para la inscripción en el Registro Integral de Formaliza...