Saturday 3 January 2015

WHO SHOULD BE ACTIVE IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE?

Trend analysis conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the players of environmental politics and governance did not exclude anyone.
The fact of the matter is that, issues of environment do not restrict any living being of involvement.
Records reveal that, in the 1950s and 60s, there were so many industrial and environmental catastrophes because there were no exact legislation to control industrial behavior and activities.
Mention could be made of cyanide spill that caused health hazard to villages in the Wassa West District of Ghana's western region by mining companies.
Internationally, mention could made of 'Minamata' disease( prominent Japanese environmental disaster)
       Environmental politics examines the relationship between global political forces and environmental management  with particular attention given to the implications of environmental change for world politics.
Conversely,  environmental governance is essentially concerned with distribution of powers within environmental decision-making.
It deals with the operations of civil individuals in the society. It is also involved in the administration of environmental bodies and policies in an organization.
By governance, we need responsibilities for making, implementing and enforcement of environmental governance and policies of a particular organization or society.
Actors or players of environmental organization has to do with those who are involved n environmental decision-making. For instance Governmental organizations or agencies as well as Non-governmental organizations( civil societies)
Actors could also be termed as stakeholders, thus, Environmental  Protection Agency (EPA), District Assemblies, Town and country planners, Government, Donor partners, Minerals Commission, Environmental and Local Government ministries, Religious and Traditional institutions.
           Players should be up and doing for environmental sustainability of which our souls and spirits would love to witness through inter and intra-generations.
By: Afriyie Moses-
Environmental Officer
Greenlove Ghana

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