To help in tackling climate change, the University of Cape Coast with its funding partner, the University of Birmingham Business School is conducting a study on climate change and its health impact on Cape Coast.
The research seeks to re-imagine communal activities which are beneficial to individuals, the community or the environment and how they impact regional and local actors with regard to climate change.
The project also aims at creating a new research frontier in keeping a 1.5-degree Celsius alive in Africa as well as to identify and analyze the economic, governance, technological, social, political, ethical, and environmental drivers that influence climate change and health equity.
In an interview with ATL FM NEWS, Principal Investigator and research fellow at Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business, University of Birmingham Business School, Dr. Nana Osei Bonsu revealed that the research is using Cape Coast as a case study.
“We are using Cape Coast as a case study just because we are looking at the fishing communities and we know that the impact of rising sea temperatures an and rising sea levels are impacting on the fish and the fishing community when it comes to the fish stock as well as the livelihoods within the fishing community…,” he explains.
He added that the research is related to both University of Birmingham’s involvement in the COP26 and its commitment to advancing the impact of climate change and sustainable cities and community research.
Meanwhile, in order to support responsible business capacity building among stakeholders by exploring alternative features with their bottom-up engagements in the participatory process of integrated climate health scenarios development and evaluation, a workshop has been held in Cape Coast to engage some stakeholders on climate change – health risk impacts scenarios development.
These stakeholders were drawn from the Ghana Meteorological Agency, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly, the fisherfolk, and those in academia among others.
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Source: Rosemond Asmah/ATLFMNEWS
