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Foster Mensah Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services University of Ghana

Learn about Ghana's commitment to the Paris Agreement, improved reporting processes, and use of Earth Observations for climate interventions. Discover the role of EO in GHG reporting, mitigation, and adaptation planning.

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Foster Mensah Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services University of Ghana

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  1. Supporting the Paris Climate Agreement The Role of Earth Observations National Perspective - Ghana Foster Mensah Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services University of Ghana GEO Climate Workshop Earth Observations for the Paris Agreement 13 June 2018, Geneva Switzerland

  2. About GHANA • Joined UNFCCC in 1995 • Submitted 3rd National Communication (NC) in 2015 • Submitted 1st Biennial Update Report (BUR) in 2015 • The reporting process has improved with time • awareness on climate change (cc) • enhancing technical capacity • data generation to inform planning • and design of cc interventions • Currently working on 4th NC and 2nd BUR

  3. Institutional arrangement for National Communication Reporting • Sector Teams (Government, Academia, CSOs) • Energy • Industrial Process and Product Use • AFOLU • Waste • Focus of Sector Teams • Mitigation • Steps to adaptation • MRV

  4. Opportunities for EO-based GHG reporting • Appreciation of EO-based information products • User engagement and product delivery • Mapping approaches for heterogeneous landscapes • Inadequate Institutional capacities

  5. Enhancing EO data uptake for GHG reporting • Producing LULC maps, data analysis tools and user interfaces • Update LULC maps with current satellite images • Technical capacity enhancement • Sustaining sensitization of decision makers on EO applications

  6. Mitigation Declining Forest Index values exhibit large disturbance anomalies near a forest reserve boundary

  7. Adaptation planning Land cover by ecological zone District level flood risk

  8. THANK YOU !

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