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Builders and estate developers in Ghana have been advised to desist from activities that are not friendly to the environment.
Partner at chartered accountancy firm, Makers and Partners (MAP), Wilfred Neneh Addico, specifically cautioned them against the indiscriminate felling of trees.
This came up as part of activities marking this year’s World Environment Day.
He said such actions retarded the collective action towards the restoration of degraded land, saying, instead of cutting down trees on lands earmarked for developmental projects, they should work around them.
He added that discussions about climate change and global warming, trees when planted , nurtured, preserved and protected would go a long way to protect the environment, as they serve an important part in the ecological system by absorbing carbon dioxide.
Mr Addico made these remarks during a tree –planting exercise organized in collaboration with Mothercare International School to commemorate this year’s World Environment Day.
The exercise aimed to engage children in climate change issues and saw the planting of 150 tree seedlings at the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) Critical Care and Emergency Hospital, kick- starting action for climate change.
Environmental destruction continues to be a major challenge for many countries, leading to worsening climate impacts which in the long run threatens the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Reiterating MAP’s commitment, Mr Addico assured that they would regularly monitor and nurture the trees to ensure they grow and help protect the environment.
He mentioned that one of the Firm’s service lines includes Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), adding that “ESG practices will ensure that individuals, organizations and communities carry out their operations being mindful of the negative impact of their activities on the environment”.
Headmaster of Mothercare International School, Asirifi Boakye, also underscored the need to encourage children to cultivate the habit of tree planting in their homes and communities to facilitate climate action and ease ozone layer depletion.
He said “as a school, we have methods of sustaining the environment as part of our curriculum, so what is being taught in the classroom we expect them to have a practice and implement this in their homes and communities”.
“That’s why we are seeing sea levels rising, flooding and heat waves; the solution to be able to mitigate some of these things is planting of trees and will urge Ghanaians to do well in planting trees and also protect the trees by not cutting them down”.
A physician specialist at the GAF Critical Care and Emergency Hospital,Dr Lukman Ahmed Qinan, highlighted the consequences of global warming and said tree planting is one of the ways to reduce its effects.
He said there were several effects of global warming, particularly on health, and a lot of diseases including heat stroke could spring up because of increasing temperatures, therefore planting more trees would go a long way to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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