Saturday 22 September 2012

After Rio, what next?

Environmental issues have achieved remarkable prominence in the last few years.  As environmentalists at Greenlove Ghana, we naturally welcome this attention and hope that the concept of sustainable development would be firmly established for 'our  common future'.
       The world is worried about the weather due to the succession of major disasters, some of which have underlying man-made, as well as natural causes.
Experts attribute the 2004 Tsunami that hit Indonesia and some parts of the south-east Asia to  the  coastal  forests that were  cleared by men some decades earlier.
After the  Rio summit, what are governments doing to curtail the incidence of climate change and global  warming?
What are civil society organizations doing to help the international community  reduce  greenhouse gas emissions?
At Greenlove Ghana, we believe that action speaks louder than words, so we marked this year's World Environment Day in two communities in Kintampo where we distributed mango seedlings to basic schools.
We know that the pupils are the future leaders, so we went a step further to set up a Greenlove club in those respective schools. These clubs are tasked with sustaining the seedlings planted.
We hope that a new generation of environmentalists will emerge from this all important movement.
Every little counts, stop the talk, and act now!
Greenlove Ghana, OUR COMMON FUTURE!