Online environment, sanitation conference (e-NESCON) launched in Ghana

Source: WasteCare

A web based special National Environmental Sanitation Conference (e-NESCON) was launched in Ghana in December 2013.

'Ministry of Environment is Ghana's weakest ministry’

Dr. Tony Aidoo

Source: Myjoyonline.com

Former Head of the Policy Monitoring and Evaluation Unit at the Presidency, Tony Aidoo has fingered the Ministry of Environment, Science and technology as the weakest ministry in Ghana.

Plastic in the ocean is contaminating seafood

Source: Today

We’ve long known that the fish we eat are exposed to toxic chemicals in the rivers, bays and oceans they inhabit. The substance that’s gotten the most attention — because it has shown up at disturbingly high levels in some fish — is mercury.

Sustainable development requires an infusion of love

Source: IIED

This New Year is a big one for planet earth. New Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will set our trajectory into an increasingly uncertain future. But country delegations are arguing over the wrong thing – says a paper entitled 'love-infused development'.

Ghana launches waste segregation project

Waste segregation

Source: GNA

The Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, in collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Zoomlion, have launched a national waste segregation programme to encourage separation of wastes at source.

USAID sponsors Abidjan high level WASH forum

Source: Globalnewsreel.com

The Pan African Inter-governmental Agency Water and Sanitation for Africa in collaboration with the government of Côte d'Ivoire organized the third High Level Forum on Water and Sanitation for All.

Education, punitive punishments are key to save Ghana’s poor sanitation conditions – Stakeholders

Some traditional leaders at the forum

By Patrick Baidoo

Representatives of Nima, Ashaiman, Ada and Mallam communities all in Greater Accra region, at a crisis talk on sanitation and hygiene have described the national sanitary conditions in their localities as devastating and endangering human lives.

People not caring about the environment is frustrating – WaterAid

Dr. Afia Zakiya

By Nathaniel Y. Yankson

The WaterAid Country Representative in Ghana, Dr. Afia Zakiya has described as very frustrating and disappointing instances where people tend not to care about their surroundings, particularly with the huge investments by donors and non-governmental organisations to ensure sustainable environments.

Polluter Pays Principle Needs Legislative Backing For Healthy Environment - NGO

Environmental pollution

By Patrick Baidoo

Ghana’s drive towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on sanitation could be described as appalling, looking at the current 14 percent threshold as against the 2015 United Nations deadline target of 54 percent.

Ghana Uses New Technology To Dispose Off Human Excreta

A digester fitted on a vehicle

Source: Francis Tandoh

Ghana will soon use digesters in the treatment of waste products from humans, according to Simpson Anim Boateng, Metropolitan Health Director for the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA).

Book Shows How Extractive Industries Can Address Conflict And Build Trust With Communities

Source: IIED

Giant mining, timber, and oil and gas projects provide lessons in how companies can act to address conflict and build trust in communities their activities affect, according to a new book from the International Institute for Environment and Development.

Zoomlion Cautions Public Against Imminent Floods

Robert Coleman, Ag. PR Manager Zoomlion

By Patrick Baidoo

The Acting Communications Manager for Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Mr. Robert Coleman has called on Ghanaians to change their attitudes towards environmental sanitation. This, he says will reduce the perennial flooding in homes and shops in Accra and other urban areas nationwide.

Water cooperation to cope with 21st century challenges

Source: UN.org

The twenty-first century, part of the Anthropocene, will leave us with tremendous environmental changes. Unprecedented population growth, a changing climate, rapid urbanization, expansion of infrastructure, migration, land conversion and pollution translate into changes in the fluxes, pathways and stores of water—from rapidly melting glaciers to the decline of groundwater due to overexploitation.

Demand for Accountability Amid Resistance to Land Deals in Africa – Report

Source: IIED

People who feel wronged by large scale land deals in Africa are taking a variety of steps to seek justice, according to new research that examines the accountability of public authorities that preside over such deals and asks whether legal empowerment offers citizens scope to expect fairer outcomes.

Water Commission, schools plant trees on water day

Ben Ampomah, Ag Exe Sec., WRC (knees bent), plants a tree.

The Water Resources Commission (WRC) has provided tree seedlings to four basic schools in Accra, for nurturing to commemorate the 2013, World Water Day (WWD).

Ghana: Collaborate for water quality in Brong-Ahafo – EPA

The Brong-Ahafo Regional Directorate of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has called for collaboration with stakeholders in ensuring environmental best practices for the early detection of any change in water quality in the region.

Ghana: Statement: Save our wetlands and Save our lives

Wetlands

Saturday February 2 is marked as World Wetlands Day by many nations around the world.

The United Nations has also declared 2013 to be the International Year of Water Co-operation and the theme for World Wetlands Day 2013 is Wetlands and water management.