350 Ghana Reducing Our Carbon (G-ROC) and the local communities are calling on our leaders to walk the talk and to no longer postpone our survival – and be more ambitious by ensuring an increase in the renewable energy contribution in the national energy supply mix to 30% by 2030.
With▫️ BEN NII ADDO ▫️ PORTIA ADU-MENSAH▫️ CHARLES WUNDENGBA ▫️ FARID SHAMSHU-DEEN.
We need your support to ensure we keep the pressure on these elected leaders; ensuring that the climate agenda remains top of their minds. Stay tuned! The video will play when the webinar starts.
With the impending presidential elections scheduled to take place in December 2020, there is a need to ensure that all the candidates and elected leaders have well-laid out climate ambitions. Here’s how the first two runners did in our climate-protector test:
President Akufo Addo
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Former Pres. John Dramani Mahama
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Sees climate change as a priority and has released detailed plans to confront it?
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Sees climate change as a priority and has released detailed plans to confront it?
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Would respect the Paris agreement and keep carbon emissions low? |
Would respect the Paris agreement and keep carbon emissions low?
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Would support the call for a transition to 30% Renewable Energy by 2030?
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Would support the call for a transition to 30% Renewable Energy by 2030? |
Would you please tweet the messages below to ask these two presidential candidates about their plans to confront climate change and transition Ghana to at least 30% renewable energy by 2030.
President Akufo Addo @NAkufoAddo Ghanaians need you to commit to the promise of a Ghana powered by 30% Renewable Energy by 2030 #RE4C #AVCaravan https://bit.ly/3i3B3kH
.@JDMahama Ghanaians need you to commit to the promise of a Ghana powered by 30% Renewable Energy by 2030 #RE4C #AVCaravan https://bit.ly/3i3B3kH
Ghana’s and Africa’s potential for renewable energy is immense, let us usher in a Ghana run on 100% #renewableenergy for this is possible #RE4C #AVCaravan https://bit.ly/3i3B3kH
.@350GROC is paving the way by creating awareness about the renewable energy potential Ghana has, Honorable President Akufo Addo @NAkufoAddo we need your support to make this a reality #RE4C #AVCaravan #AfrikaVuka https://bit.ly/3i3B3kH
This election year Ghanaian citizens will choose the leader who will guide them to a future where Ghana is run by 100% renewable energy @NAkufoAddo @JDMahama, are you that leader? #RE4C #AVCaravan #AfrikaVuka https://bit.ly/3i3B3kH
In the words of the great Kwame Nkrumah “We face neither East or West; We face forward” and this election year Ghana needs a leader that guides Ghana to the future of a country run on 100% renewable energy #RE4C #AVCaravan #AfrikaVuka https://bit.ly/3i3B3kH
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