Ghana

Region: Ghana

Ghana:

Projects
18
Resources
16
Stories
32
News
12th June 2015
CDKN supported journalist wins award Ghanaian journalist Kofi Adu Domfeh has won the African Press Organisation (APO) Energy Media Award. Kofi is one of five African journalists supported by a CDKN project which seeks to increase coverage of climate change in African media.
Resource
25th March 2015
Image of Accra coast, Ghana Image showing a coastal development on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana.
Resource
25th March 2015
Image of Akosombo hydroelectric power station, Ghana Image of Akosombo hydroelectric power station on the Volta River, which supplies Ghana and half of Togo with energy.
Resource
25th March 2015
Image of Akosombo power station, Ghana Image of Akosombo power station, which supplies Ghana and half of Togo with energy.
News
5th March 2015
Decarbonisation campaign could make impact in Ghana The global movement of campaigners for clean energy is growing at a fast pace, but not everyone is hearing the call. Kofi Adu Domfeh, a journalist partaking in the CDKN-supported Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) climate journalism fellowship, reflects on the situation in Ghana.
Event
26th January 2015
Learning from CDKN’s city experience CDKN presents a webinar on the effect of extreme heat on public health, examining the implementation of Ahmedabad's Heat Action Plan. The webinar will take place on 3 February.
Resource
16th January 2015
POLICY BRIEF: Using climate information to achieve long-term development objectives in coastal Ghana and Mozambique Accra, Ghana and Maputo, Mozambique face many development challenges, such as poor transport and drainage infrastructure, as a result of inadequate regulation and law enforcement. Climate change could lead to flooding and coastal erosion and will compound these challenges. Could better use of climate information in planning hold the answer? A new policy brief from the Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) programme and CDKN lays out some options.
Resource
15th September 2014
Inside Story : Building coastal resilience through an integrated approach: Lessons from Ghana A new Inside Story on Climate Compatible Development, 'Building coastal resilience through an integrated approach: Lessons from Ghana' by Dr Delali Dovie and collaborators at the University of Ghana, describes lessons learned from a CDKN innovation project that aimed to build resilience among Ghana’s coastal communities.
Feature
10th September 2014
Contextualising climate services in Maputo and Accra Joseph Daron of the University of Cape Town looks at ways in which local decision-makers might be able to deliver more effective climate services.
Resource
7th August 2014
Report : Assessing the adaptation mechanisms of smallholder farmers to climate change and agro biodiversity losses in northern Ghana This research, Assessing the adaptation mechanisms of smallholder farmers to climate change and agro biodiversity losses in northern Ghana, examines adaptation strategies for smallholder farmers in northern Ghana, discussing issues of production, water management and the policy environment.
Resource
4th August 2014
Report : Ghana: Climate change risk communications framework for coastal urban development policy This paper, Ghana: Climate change risk communciations framcework for coastal urban development policy, reviews the capacity building workshops held by RIPS, which took government, NGO and civic representations on study tours to witness coastal erosion and livelihood impacts first hand and discuss solutions.
Resource
29th July 2014
Policy Brief : An investigation of the evidence of benefits from climate compatible development This paper, An investigation of the evidence of benefits from climate compatible development, assesses evidence of ‘triple wins’ on the ground, and the feasibility of triple wins that do not generate negative impacts.