Ghana’s $21m forest-finance success offers road map for West Africa — Forestry Commission

Ghana’s experience Mr Awotiirim said the country had submitted its forest reference emissions level to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for technical assessment, while integrating REDD+ into its national reporting and carbon-accounting arrangements through the Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ Programme.

Mr Awotiirim said lessons would be shared openly, including failures and encouraged countries to strengthen links among forest monitoring, greenhouse-gas inventories, reference levels and transparency reports, saying understanding those systems could improve reporting and access to climate finance.

Ghana’s experience in accessing results-based climate finance offers a practical road map for West African countries seeking to strengthen their readiness for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) payments, the Deputy Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission, Timothy Ataboadey Awotiirim, has said.