News
CEESD to begin education and awareness creation on Climate Change
in 38
Teacher Training Colleges in Ghana
6
April - CEESD will begin mass education and awareness programme on Climate Change:
meaning, causes and effects, adaptation and mitigation strategies, and the
way forward for Ghana. Teachers equipped with the knowledge in the causes of
climate change and mitigating measures will serve as a reliable resource
personnel who will in turn impart the acquired knowledge to the children
they teach at the basic level, the local people in the villages and towns
and among their peers who work in other sectors of the economy. Going from
village to village to train teacher might be a very daunting task and may
not necessarily yield the needed results since not all teachers may be
covered.
CEESD expects to cover all thirty eight (38) training colleges in Ghana in
one year, beginning from Wesley and St. Louis Training Colleges in Kumasi on
May, 2010. Over 65,000 teacher trainees are expected to be covered by the
end of April, 2011.
Energy from bamboo - Ghana receives GH¢
28 million from EU
Ghana is expected to receive GH¢ 28
million ($ 17.3) from the European Union for a project that is
expected to promote bamboo as a major source of sustainable
energy. The project is supported by the International Network
for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR). Major partners of the project
include the Forestry Research Institute (FORIG), Ghana Bamboo
and Rattan Development Program (BARADEP), and Nanjing Forestry
University, (NFU), China.
Credit: Alternative Energy Africa
Climate
change treaty - more urgent than ever
The need for a new global climate deal is "greater than ever", according to
developing country delegates speaking at the opening of UN climate talks.
Blocs representing the poorest nations called for intensive talks during the
year, leading to agreement on a legally binding treaty in December. The EU
backed the call, re-stating that the conclusion of December's Copenhagen
summit had not met its ambitions.
But other industrialised countries do not appear so keen for a new
treaty. The three-day meeting here in Bonn is the first since the
Copenhagen summit concluded without the global treaty that many
countries had aimed for, instead producing a political declaration known
as the Copenhagen Accord. The US and other rich countries see it as a
positive development, but others decry it as a figleaf that detracts
attention from the real issues. Describing Copenhagen as "a total
failure", Venezuela's delegation chief Claudia Salerno said the accord
would not reduce emissions enough to prevent significant climate impacts
on poorer countries. "My country raised its voice against the misnomer
'Copenhagen Accord' because it contains proposals for voluntary
reductions in carbon emissions that according to scientists would lead
to increases in temperature of about 5C (9F)," she said.
"So nobody should be congratulating themselves on that. The
urgency we face now is even greater than 2009." Not all analyses of the
Copenhagen Accord's pledges on curbing carbon emissions produce such
high estimates for temperature rise, but many of those pledges are far
from precise.
Source: BBC
CEESD members win 2009 Mondialogo Engineering Contest
Two members of CEESD represented a team of
engineering students from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
Technology (KNUST) and Arizona State University in the 2009 Mondialogo
contest for engineering students. The project dubbed 'Development of gel
fuel as a possible substitute to fuelwood in Ghana won a bronze award.
CEESD is currently seeking financial partners to establish a gel fuel
plant for the processing of sugarcane in the lower Volta basin of Ghana.
More photos
Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development
