Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainable DevelopmentCEESD
Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development
CEESD
Creates Climate Change Awareness at International Summit of
Professional Students Association in Sunyani
July
23 -
The Center for
Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (CEESD) was invited
by the President of the Professional Students Association which is a
branch of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) to participate
in a climate change seminar as part of its 5th
International Students Summit which was on the
Theme: Global Climate Change:
My Duty as a Professional in its Diminution. The session was
chaired by the Director of CEESD, Mr Julius Ahiekpor who
congratulated the organizers of the event for choosing a theme that
is very relevant to our time, to Ghana and to entire international
community, and announced that climate change awareness is a key area
that CEESD is committing resources.
He said that although the
invitation from the Association was received rather late and the
Association was not a part of the Center’s key target groups (in its
Strategic Business Plan), he approved the honouring of the
invitation because the composition of the
Association,
having within its ranks trainees in Journalism (Radio, TV and Print)
and other key professions who contribute to forming the perspectives
of the citizenry, is one that provides very unique opportunity for
carrying the message of awareness and action on Climate Change.
In a presentation,
Mr David Quansah of CEESD, explained the causes of climate change,
provided some scientific data in evidence to the participants and
explained the consequences of inaction on current and succeeding
generations. Quoting from the first National Communications of the
Environmental Protection Agency of Ghana (EPA) to the
United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and other publications of the
Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), he warned of the
consequences with regards to food security, water supply, health,
energy and the recession of the Ghana’s coastal shorelines. He
challenged the seminar participants to be agents of change and
conduits for creating awareness of climate change and the need to
pursue sustainable development.
The
President of the Association Mr Joseph Sarpong, was grateful to
CEESD for responding to the invitation at short notice and indicated
his Association’s intentions to collaborate with CEESD in
furtherance of the agenda of renewable energy and sustainable
development.