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A passionate appeal has been made to the youth of Ghana to take keen interest in the planting of and caring of trees to help avert the effects of deforestation and global warming in Ghana.

This appeal was made at the launch of the Green Republic Project, a youth-led tree planting project that seeks to plant about 20 million trees across Ghana by the year 2028.

Speaking at the launch of the project Radach Hotel in Tamale, Northern Region, the convener for the Green Republic Project , Nana Yaw Osei-Darkwa said it was about time the youth of the country were made aware of the rate at which our forests are being depleted and the dire consequences that deforestation poses to future generations.

“As leaders of tomorrow, the youth of Ghana have a sacred responsibility to play active roles in finding lasting solutions to challenges of the present that has the potential to negatively impact the future. One of such challenges remains deforestation and the effects of climate change and global warming,” Mr. Osei-Darkwa stated.

He explained that starting from 1st July, 2018 , the project supported by its lead sponsor Humano Energy, a leading oil firm, in collaboration with the Forestry Commission, and the Northern Regional Coordinating Council would plant 10,000 trees in Tamale and its environs.

He said the project was a creative response to the challenge of climate crisis threatening human existence and development.

“As young people who will have to endure the repercussions of a deforested nation one of which remains climate change and global warming, we have decided to purchase the future with the present by acting decisively today through tree planting,” he noted.

“Our goal is to instigate the planting of millions of trees every year to help avert the catastrophic repercussions of climate change and global warming. Which to a large extent is occasioned by greenhouse emissions coupled with deforestation rates globally,” he noted.

He explained that the project couldn’t have come at any better time than a period were the government of Ghana is embarking on its famous One District ,One Factory project.

“With the One District, One Factory project policy in the offing, the need to plant more trees to absorb greenhouse gases even gets more urgent. Because these factories no matter how small they may be will be emitting tons of carbons into the atmosphere which presents a concern for worry,” Nana Yaw Osei-Darkwaa stressed.

He encouraged celebrities most of whom are within the youth brackets to lend their support to this project as their contribution to building a healthy future for themselves and their fans, sayoung, through the planting of 20 million trees in the next 10 years could be a sure way of helping safeguard a healthy future environment.