By Nneka Nwogwugwu
The Africa Environmental Sanitation Consults, (AESC) a research and policy arm of the Jospong Group of Companies, has showcased potentials in Ghana’s waste management sector that can contribute to lowering global emissions.
The Company is therefore, using the opportunity of its participation in COP26, to call for strategic partnerships and scout for specialised skills to argument its innovative ideas in sustainably managing waste in Ghana.
Dr Abena Asomaning Antwi, Managing Director, AESC, told the Ghana News Agency in Glasgow, UK that such partnerships were critical in helping the company to play its rightful role in the mitigation and adaptation measures in the climate change fights through proper waste management.
“We are excited for the opportunity to be here, while we look for the partners, we are also looking for the people because sometimes we can’t actually find it in the space that we operate in. And because we are looking for technology, we think the COP is the best platform,” she said.
She mentioned that already, the Company had identified some Japanese entities and companies working in the same space as they do, such as waste to energy aspects, and possessing the machinery, and having recovery initiatives that could be embraced to boost its operations in Ghana and on the sub-region.
“Because we are trying to infuse technology into our operations, we, sort of, need people who are far advanced who can advise us in our operations within our kind of environment in which we operate, ”Dr Antwi said.
Dr Henry Kwabena Kokofu, Executive Director, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), expressed the Agency’s readiness to partner the Jospong Group and any other like-minded institution to keep the environment free from pollution.
He said the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies had the onus to effectively manage waste at the district level and so there was the need for them to up their game while Ghanaians faced the reality of paying a bit more to ensure proper waste management in the country.