Today's online edition of the UK's Guardian newspaper, published an interesting news story by Fiona Harvey, the paper's environment correspondent. It really ought to be read by Ghana's Vice-President Alhaji Mahammudu Bawumia, Senior Minister Hon. Yaw Osafo Marfo and the minister for finance, Hon. Ken Ofori-Atta.
For tne sake of Mother Ghana, one certainly hopes that somehow, a patriotic citizen close to them, will see that article - entitled "UK to put climate crisis and environment at the heart of overseas aid' - and alert them to it and get them to read its very interesting contents.
Hopefully, after so doing, they will then have the nous and gumption to invite Britain's overseas development secretary, Rory Stewart, to Ghana, and show him the Atewa Forest Reserve. Ditto all the forest canopy walkways in Ghana.
After having done so, they can then tell him that all Britain's outbound tour companies are welcome to neutralise their carbon footprints at Atewa, in creative fashion, by paying for the carbon sequestered in trees there.
That can be done by getting UK low carbon development funds to make regular payments on their behalf, amounting to say £4 billion over ten years, to fringe forest communities bordering the Atewa Forest Reserve - so they can better protect it.
Finally, Hon. Yaw Osafo Marfo & Co ought to understand clearly that it is only by pursuing a low-carbon green economic agenda, which will ensure that the transformation we all seek for our country, in backing the government's Ghana-beyond-aid initiative, will become reality - thus enabling us get to that much-desired stage in our history.
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