President Akufo-Addo with Ghana’s delegation and others dignitaries at COP 28
President Akufo-Addo has called on the international community to partner with Ghana to implement its country package under the Forest and Climate Leaders’ Partnership (FCLP), dubbed, “Resilient Ghana: Advancing Climate Action for Prosperity.”
He said the urgency to implement forest solutions to tackle climate change, required that the world comes together, to mobilise support for nature-positive action.
The President made the call at the ongoing 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), where he announced Ghana’s Country Package.
It will be recalled that at COP26 in Glasgow, world leaders adopted the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030.
At COP27 in Sharm El-Shiekh, Egypt, Ghana joined the United Kingdom to launch the FCLP as a vehicle to deliver on the ambitious target of the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration.
The Country Packages is an initiative of the FCLP to design, develop and implement an integrated system-wide wholistic suit of interventions to address Forest Landscape Restoration, according to each country’s Nationally Determined Contributions.
Announcing the details of the Country Package, President Akufo-Addo said, “Resilient Ghana” is a vision to strengthen Ghana’s economy, protect and restore her abundant forests, meaningfully reduce greenhouse gas emissions, boost cocoa production, position the country as a global leader in sustainable timber, and scale up tourism potential, while creating jobs and livelihoods for people.
According to the President, through the Country Package, Ghana will showcase how to transform the forest sector and strengthen the economy in tandem.
This will be achieved, through strategies, such as building a strong foundation to access international carbon markets, strengthening agricultural and mining practices, promoting aggressive afforestation and reforestation programme, and reinforcingthe enabling conditions for a just transition.
The Country Package will be implemented with partners from both Government and the private sector, including the Governments of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), United States of America (USA), Singapore and Canada. Already, UAE has committed to support the Package with Thirty Million US Dollars (US$30,000,000.00).
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