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Ghana is seeking a total amount of 22.6 billion dollars as its budget to implement her 31 national actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change from 2020 to 2030.

The country, would therefore, use the platform of the Africa Climate Week, (ACW) being hosted in the Accra from Monday March 18 to Friday March 22, to seek more partnerships to enable her implement her Nationally Determined Contributions (GH-NDCs), Dr Emanuel Techie Obeng, a Principal Programme Officer, at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said.

The theme for the ACW is: “Climate Action in Africa: A Race We Can Win”, while the NDCs are each country’s national action plans to deal with climate change challenges and help place the globe into low carbon pathway and climate resilient future.

Dr Techie Obeng, who doubles as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) National Focal Point on Climate Education, Training and Public Awareness in Ghana, said 10 billion dollars of the budgeted amount would be needed for climate change mitigation actions in the country, while 12 billion dollars would be used for adaptation actions.

Speaking at an Africa Climate Week Media Encounter Programme, organised by the Climate Action Network-Ghana in partnership with the EPA, Dr Obeng Techie said Ghana was mobilisiing six billion dollars out of the amount from domestic sources while the 16 billion dollars would be mobilised from international sources.

He said the Gh-NDCs also covers seven economic sectors with 20 mitigation and 11 adaptation actions, involving water, agriculture, forestry, energy, gender, among others.

Dr Obeng urged the media to acquaint themselves with climate change issues so they could partner the government and other stakeholders in mobilising action that is threatening human survival.