Christian organisation A Rocha is leading the environmental protests in Ghana against a new law which permits increased mining in the country.
Those protests included several days of peaceful demonstrations calling for the law’s repeal. Many Ghanaians took to the streets holding signs saying ‘No mining in forest reserves’.
As COP28 was beginning, Daryl Bosu, A Rocha Ghana’s deputy national director, said the law ‘poses a significant threat to the hard-earned progress in Ghana’s sustainable forest management over the past decade. It introduces vulnerabilities and undermines the country’s commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions’.
