{"id":59500,"date":"2025-09-12T12:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/59500\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T12:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:37:18","slug":"how-ghana-and-ethiopia-are-boosting-their-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/59500\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ghana and Ethiopia Are Boosting Their Forests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roselyn Fosuah Adjei, director of the Forestry Commission Training Centre in Ghana, shared some of the country\u2019s experiences implementing REDD+. As of 2024, the country has received and dispersed over $20 million<\/a> in funds from the World Bank for combatting deforestation. Adjei stressed the importance of involving stakeholders like local leaders, private sector, and various government branches.<\/p>\n

\u201cImplementing REDD+ on the ground needs governance arrangements where you know who does what,\u201d she said. \u201cLocal communities have their own farms. What must they do on their farms? What must the private sector do to support local communities? What must civil society do to support that process as well?\u201d<\/p>\n

A number of countries, including Ghana, Mozambique, and the Democratic Republic of Congo have begun to receive payments for REDD+ progress, highlighting the program\u2019s efficacy and momentum, said Ellen Bruzelius Backer, deputy director of the Norwegian International Climate and Forestry Initiative. Norway is one of the donors behind the LEAF-Coalition, which seeks to purchase verified emission reduction and removal credits and has agreed to purchase future credits from Ethiopia. \u201cTraction comes after a lot of hard work in a lot of countries,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But there is still more work to be done. Africa has the highest rate of deforestation in the world. About 3.9 million hectares<\/a> (9.6 million acres) of African forest\u2014roughly the size of about 381 million soccer fields\u2014was destroyed every year between 2010 and 2020. \u201cWe believe [nature-based solutions] offer a sustainable way forward for Africa,\u201d said Sune Krogstrup, Denmark\u2019s ambassador to Ethiopia, one of the investors in Ethiopia\u2019s Green Legacy Initiative. \u201cBut it’s also clear that more investments and political commitments are needed from all stakeholders to advance this agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coverage of the Second Africa Climate Summit is presented by the Pan Africa Climate Justice Alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roselyn Fosuah Adjei, director of the Forestry Commission Training Centre in Ghana, shared some of the country\u2019s experiences…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[18,440,19,17,133,23271,1373],"class_list":{"0":"post-59500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-sponsorshipblock","14":"tag-sustainability"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}