The earth is suffering and the climate crisis is reaching a tipping point, according to the President of Ghana.
Speaking at the 2022 Green Ghana Day event, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said the timber industry is suffering because of the loss of forests. He said this loss is also affecting global temperatures.
“In the last three decades alone, the world has lost 1,137,846,602 acres of forest, more than 10% of the current total forest area. Per the current data we have, we are losing 150 acres of rainforest every single minute, 200,000 acres a day, and 79 million acres a year. Here in Ghana, we have lost some 100,000 acres of natural forest in the last decade alone. Our timber industry is suffering.”
“The forest is also home to most of the earth’s terrestrial biodiversity and crucial to our fight against climate change. The climate crisis is reaching a tipping point. We have been advised by the parish agreement to keep global temperatures below 1.5 degrees Celsius.”
He has therefore urged all Ghanaians to support the government’s #GreenGhana initiative to plant more trees to save the earth. The maiden #GreenGhanaDay held in 2021 led to the planting of over 5 million trees – this year’s target is 20 million trees.
