President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who spoke at the 29th United Nations Climate Conference (COP 29), urged world leaders to move beyond rhetoric and take concrete, decisive actions to address the global climate crisis.

In an interview with Citi Business News, Benjamin Nsiah, Executive Director of CEMSE, outlined several key policy areas that need to be realigned. One such area includes reducing taxes on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to make cleaner energy options more accessible.

“As a country, most of our policies are inconsistent with their practice. For example, if you talk of clean cooking energy or clean cooking fuel, which is one of the goals of the Sustainable Development Target, which is goal seven, talk of clean and affordable energy.

But LPG, which is a clean energy source for household usage, is not affordable. We still have taxes on them. So, as a country, we need to critically look at that to make sure that our policies align with our nationally determined contributions. The second part is that we still see unsustainable mining across Ghana, which is also known as Galamsey.”