Environmental Protection: Germany to assist Ghana in Climate Mitigation Programmes

Germany has pledged its commitment to help Ghana with its climate plan

The German Ambassador, Mr Christoph Retzlaff says Germany is looking forward to partnering with Ghana to bring more solar power systems under a renewable energy programme.

Mr Christoph Retzlaff believes  the systems would help salvage the parts of the country experiencing intermittent power supply.

 

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He stressed on Germany’s bilateral agreement in three African countries which are Tunisia, Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire.

The funds of the agreement he said would be geared towards supporting vocational training and the renewable energy sector.

 According to Mr Retzlaff renewable energy plays critical role in climate mitigation and the partnership between the two countries would enable Germany help Ghana in its climate mitigation plans.

Ghana’s huge potential with lots of sunshine everywhere, “we could find lots of solutions here, especially in the remote areas where there are no accesses to conservative energy and we can find small decent solutions for farmers in little towns by using solar energy”, he added.

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He further explained that “We have the technology, we have the knowledge and we have the experts, we can finally settle that we will walk this path”.

The agreement signed also with Tunisia and Cote d’Ivoire fall under a compact initiative that would bring additional 100 million euros each year to the country to be used mainly for projects in the renewable energy sector and in vocational training.

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