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Uma Bun Hatab School gets solar-powered bio-digester …to manage waste
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The country can prevent up to 5,500 premature deaths with improvements in air quality, while increased physical activity such as cycling and brisk walking over the next 35 years can prevent additional 33,000 premature deaths, a new report by the Urban Health Initiative (UHI) of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.
The report, titled: “Health and economic impacts of transport interventions in Accra”, said those achievements could be attained through greater access to greener vehicles for citizens, and increased walking and cycling infrastructure.
The report was to influence the government to develop a more comprehensive and decarbonised public transportation system in Accra using health impact assessment tools to assess the environmental, health and economic benefits of a sustainable urban transportation system.
Some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other stakeholders in the environmental sector have supported the call by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for an open and dispassionate conversation on the way forward in the fight against illegal mining (galamsey).
They have, however, said for the effort to yield the desired results, the Minerals Commission and other mandated state institutions must be resourced and made more independent to lead the fight, instead of leaving it in the hands of partisan committees.
The organisations, which include Arocha Ghana, Green Advocacy Ghana, the Ghana National Association of Small-Scale Miners (GNASSM) and the Media Coalition Against Galamsey, claimed that although President Akufo-Addo had demonstrated enough commitment to fight the menace over the past four years, his political appointees who spearheaded the fight had failed him.