Amplify voices, actions; reduce climate awareness gap – UNDP to youth
The Resident Representative at the UNDP Ghana, Silke Hollander has charged the youth to always endeavor to amplify their voices and actions in a bid to help reduce the climate awareness gap to enable a broader section of the society understand how they can contribute to climate action. She also called for collaborative support on part of every Ghanaian towards ensuring climate action while focusing on development objectives and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to achieve tackling the challenges of climate change. “As climate is impacting on livelihoods, health, employment, agriculture, etc. basically none of our development objectives can be achieved in a sustainable way without addressing the challenges of climate change.” The UNDP boss made this known while delivering her welcome address at the 2019 Social Good Summit (SGS) which was held at the Bank of Ghana Auditorium in Accra on September 18. This year’s summit which is on the theme: “Take Action to Save The P