Climate Change
THE United States Embassy has organised a public seminar for junior high school students from some selected schools in the Accra metropolis to create awareness of climate change or global warming among them.
The seminar, which had resource persons from the University of Ghana, Legon, took place at the American Corner of the Ghana Library Board in Accra as part of activities to mark this year’s Earth Day which falls on April 22 every year.
The schools that took part in the seminar were Bishop Girls’ Junior High and Private Odartey Lamptey Memorial, both in Accra.
The participants, who included some staff of the United States Embassy, were taken through issues on climate change or global warming, with emphasis on its causes, effects and solutions.
Dr George Wiafe of the Department of Oceanography and Fisheries of the University of Ghana, who spoke on the role of the youth in climate change mitigation, stressed the need to sensitise the youth to adopt lifestyles that would reduce the emission of greenhouse gases.
He added that through education, the effect of climate change could be reduced without cost to the government. “We can reduce climate change effect by consuming energy wisely, using energy saving bulbs and avoiding activities that will increase carbon dioxide on the environment,” he said.
The second speaker for the occasion, Dr Vincent Vordzogbe of the Botany Department of University of Ghana, talked about pollinators and their role in crop production, as well as their importance to the reduction of greenhouse gases.
He emphasised the need for school-going children to protect and conserve vegetation resources at the early age.
“We need to grow more plants, since they are the only organisms that absorb carbon dioxide. Growing more plants will help to reverse climate change,” he stressed.
Both speakers advocated that the Earth Day should be celebrated in a manner to afford science teachers the opportunity to dwell students’ attention on the environment and enrich their creativity and imagination so that they could act persuasively to help solve environmental problems.
The seminar, which had resource persons from the University of Ghana, Legon, took place at the American Corner of the Ghana Library Board in Accra as part of activities to mark this year’s Earth Day which falls on April 22 every year.
The schools that took part in the seminar were Bishop Girls’ Junior High and Private Odartey Lamptey Memorial, both in Accra.
The participants, who included some staff of the United States Embassy, were taken through issues on climate change or global warming, with emphasis on its causes, effects and solutions.
Dr George Wiafe of the Department of Oceanography and Fisheries of the University of Ghana, who spoke on the role of the youth in climate change mitigation, stressed the need to sensitise the youth to adopt lifestyles that would reduce the emission of greenhouse gases.
He added that through education, the effect of climate change could be reduced without cost to the government. “We can reduce climate change effect by consuming energy wisely, using energy saving bulbs and avoiding activities that will increase carbon dioxide on the environment,” he said.
The second speaker for the occasion, Dr Vincent Vordzogbe of the Botany Department of University of Ghana, talked about pollinators and their role in crop production, as well as their importance to the reduction of greenhouse gases.
He emphasised the need for school-going children to protect and conserve vegetation resources at the early age.
“We need to grow more plants, since they are the only organisms that absorb carbon dioxide. Growing more plants will help to reverse climate change,” he stressed.
Both speakers advocated that the Earth Day should be celebrated in a manner to afford science teachers the opportunity to dwell students’ attention on the environment and enrich their creativity and imagination so that they could act persuasively to help solve environmental problems.
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