Environmental News about Climate Change

EarthWire Climate provides a daily overview on the issue of climate change as reported in the media. The web site is updated every day by a team of editors that reviews media sources for environmental news stories.

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Ghana: Country Losing Out On Biodiversity - Mining in Reserves, A Contributing Factor
AllAfrica.com | 16 Jun 2010
Environmentalists groups in the country have called for pragmatic action against the increasing losses of biodiversity, and warned of the socio-economic consequences for the country's development. Biodiversity, as defined by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, includes diversity...

Ghana | Biodiversity

Ghana: Local Women to Engage in Climate Change Decision Making
AllAfrica.com | 13 Apr 2010
A project aimed to achieve long term impact on the promotion of women's rights and gender responsiveness of climate change policy making, mitigation and adaptation measures in Ghana has been launched in Accra.

Ghana | Climate Change Mitigation | Initiatives | Institutional Capacity Building

Economic slump may limit moves on clean energy
International Herald Tribune | 25 Nov 2008
From Italy to China, a poor global economy and plunging prices of coal and oil are upending plans to wean businesses and consumers from fossil fuel.

Ghana: Global Warming Should Concern Everyone
The Ghanaian Chronicle | 23 Apr 2008
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOS) in Ghana have been called upon to collaborate with the government for effective environmental programmes to help address the issue of global warming, which is of much concern to word leaders.

Climate Change and Development | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change

Ghana: Country to Experience Drought & Famine If Desertification Continues
The Ghanaian Chronicle | 14 Mar 2008
A group, calling itself Fighting Against Desert Encroachment (FADE), has hinted about imminent drought and famine in the country, as a result of desertification, which has engulfed the African continent.

Climate Change and Development | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change

Ghana: Fighting the Climate Change II
The Ghanaian Chronicle | 21 Dec 2007
Global warming is gradually becoming a canker that the developed countries are trying to fight against.

Climate Change and Development | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change

Ghana: Fighting the Climatic Change
The Ghanaian Chronicle | 18 Dec 2007
One of the problems threatening the survival of mankind, on this planet, is rapid climatic change. The weather pattern seems to have dramatically changed over the last two decades with Sub Saharan Africa region at the receiving end.

Climate Change and Development | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change

Ghana: Food Shortages Follow Drought, Floods
IRIN News | 25 Oct 2007
After an initial push to provide food for people affected by drought and heavy flooding in northern Ghana, donor attention on the country is waning even though food shortages persist meaning the situation could get much worse, the Ghanaian government and aid agencies warn.

Climate Change and Development | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change

Ghana: The Climate Adaptation Challenge
AllAfrica.com | 18 Oct 2007
Until very recently, manmade climate change was believed to be a crisis of the distant future. We've learned, painfully, that we are already in the midst of manmade climate change, with worse to come.

Climate Change and Development | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change

West Africa: UN Grants $3.7 Million to Help Flood Survivors in Mali, Ghana And Togo
UN News Centre | 09 Oct 2007
The United Nations has allocated $3.7 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to help ongoing relief efforts in Mali, Ghana and Togo which were struck recently by some of the worst floods West Africa has seen in decades.

Climate Change and Development | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change

Africa: Picking Up the Pieces After the Floods
Inter Press Service | 26 Sep 2007
"We prayed to God to open the heavens, but this is not what we expected," says Peter Nayoon, a farmer from Gushiegu in the north of Ghana, one of several African countries blighted by floods over recent weeks. "I am finished," he adds, pointing dejectedly towards the area that used to be his yam farm. "Who would give me money to start a new life?"

Climate Change and Development | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change

Africa: Church Groups Seek Aid for 1.5M Sub-Saharan Flood Victims
Catholic Information Service for Africa | 21 Sep 2007
Catholic charities and other humanitarian agencies say over 1.5 million people in sub-Saharan Africa have been hit by raging floods and are in urgent need of help.

Climate Change and Development | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change

Ghana: Ghana Poised for CDM
AllAfrica.com | 17 Aug 2007
The Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Environment, Mr. Kwadwo Adjei Darko has said the threat of global climate change to sustainable development is one of the major environmental concerns of the world.

Climate Change and Development | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change

Ghana: Anansesem And Climate Change
AllAfrica.com | 13 Aug 2007
Any Ghanaian who has spent any childhood years in Ghana would certainly agree that the characters of the wise spider and the rest of the animal kingdom in Ghanaian tales are indeed, unforgettable and inspiring.

Climate Change and Development | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change

Africa: Developing Nations Embrace Renewable Energy
AllAfrica.com | 22 Jun 2007
Developing countries have increased investment in renewable energy, accounting for one-fifth of the world's total last year, according to a report by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) released today (21 June).

Energy Efficiency | Renewable Energy | Climate Change

Africa: Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Appoints Kofi Annan, Former Secretary-General of t...
AllAfrica.com | 14 Jun 2007
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa today announced the appointment of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as its first chairman.

Biodiversity

Ghana: Scientist Blames Energy Crisis On Global Warming
AllAfrica.com | 11 Jun 2007
AN ENVIRONMENTAL Scientist, Mr. Padmore Baffour Adjapong says global warming - an increase in temperature of the world - is the cause of Ghana's current energy crisis that is suffocating businesses in the country.

Global Warming

Ghana: Climatic Change Threatens MDGs Attainment - EPA Boss
AllAfrica.com | 08 Jun 2007
THE EXECUTIVE Director of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Mr. J. A. Allotey, has said that changes in climate in Ghana were likely to militate against the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) aimed at halving poverty and ensuring sustainable development in the country.

Climate Change | Global Warming

Africa: UN Wins Pledges to Plant Billion Trees
AllAfrica.com | 25 May 2007
The United Nations has received pledges to plant over a billion trees in a drive to help fight climate change and poverty, Reuters reported from Nairobi quoting the UN as having said Tuesday.

Climate Change | Global Warming

Africa: UN Refugee Agency Backs 'Green' Plan
AllAfrica.com | 23 May 2007
Backing a major "green" initiative, the United Nations refugee agency has pledged to plant more than 9 million trees this year in areas of human displacement.

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