2nd edition of the ‘Water for Life’ UN-Water Best Practices Award

Adapt or “die”: a climate change challenge for African cities

ADDIS ABABA, 20 Oct - African countries have been advised to cooperate in adapting now to the ravages of climate change or face the harsh consequences of inaction that would befall large numbers of the continent’s 967 million people .

Environment ministers in Guinea Current area agree on a permanent body to manage ecosystem

ACCRA 2 July – Environment Ministers of 16 West and Central African countries agreed Friday to the creation of the Guinea Current Commission and accepted Ghana’s offer to host the new regional body.

African scientists to survey South Gulf of Guinea waters in science-based effort to ensure sustainable management of Guinea current fisheries

By Olu Sarr PORT-GENTIL, Gabon 18 June – The Norwegian research vessel Dr. Fridtjof Nansen has set sail from Port-Gentil, Gabon, with 13 African scientists and their Norwegian counterparts

Mid-term review of National Action Plans for ecosystem preservation begins

ACCRA 12 July - Environmentalists from 16 west and central African nations began Monday a two-day review of their progress in developing National Action Plans vital for the safeguarding and sustainable management of their marine ecosystems that are blighted by pollution and the depletion of resources.

Mid-term review of National Action Plans ends; countries make significant progress.

ACCRA 13 July - Countries participating in the Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem (GCLME) project have made significant progress in developing their National Action Plans, the consultant guiding the process said Tuesday.

Value of maintaining healthy Coastal environment discussed

ACCRA 15 July - Experts from the Guinea Current countries of west and central Africa began a two-day meeting Wednesday to discuss harmonized methods to measure the economic value of maintaining a healthy marine and coastal ecosystem along their coast stretching from Guinea-Bissau to Angola on the Atlantic.

"Green-Green" in our Western waters

TAKORADI, Ghana, 13 Sept - For as long as many elder fishermen in the Ghanaian districts of Jomoro and Ellembelle remember, there have been outbreaks of a green filamentous plant called ‘Green-Green’, beginning in December and lasting two months on average.

Business to join government in the battle to manage solid waste.

ACCRA 19 Oct - With some African cities close to choking on garbage, government and private sector partnerships say they are ready to clean up then recycle the mess, thereby protecting millions of urban residents while creating jobs and earning business profit.

Your garbage, their business: network formed to manage trash

ACCRA 21 Oct - Local businesses and the government formed a network Thursday to coordinate the collection, disposal of and recycling a variety of industrial and household waste that continue to endanger millions of Ghanaians.

The Interim Guinea Current Commission’s Interview with Sierra Leone Environment Protection Agency Chairperson Haddijatou Jallow

ACCRA 1 Nov - Sierra Leone is a small country nestled on the western bulge of Africa, but one endowed with abundant natural resources on and offshore.

Interview with Dr. Ken Sherman, one of two winners of the 2010 Göteborg Award for Sustainable Development

ACCRA, 17 Nov - Fisheries Scientist KennethSherman and Conservationist Randall Arauz are the 2010 joint winners of the Göteborg Award for Sustainable Development

Father of Large Marine Ecosystem honoured

ACCRA 18 Nov - Fisheries Oceanographer Kenneth Sherman and conservationist Randall Arauz received worldwide acclaim Wednesday as joint Image winners of the 2010 Göteborg Award for Sustainable Development.

Scientists in West, Central Africa to apply ecosystem based-management to fisheries

ACCRA 13 Dec - Turn-out and expectations were high Monday as fisheries experts began a five-day regional training workshop on the use of scientific models that could guide governments in managing fisheries resources in the Guinea Current region.

Guinea Current countries seek support for priority investment projects

DOUALA, Cameroon 17 Feb – Countries of the Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem (GCLME) region began a crucial two-day meeting

GCLME Fish farmers to learn about mariculture techniques

ACCRA 23 Feb – Fish farmers and scientists from the Guinea current region began a three-day session Tuesday

Guinea Current fish farmers urged to diversify into mariculture

Their interests were stimulated by the presentations on mariculture technology, made by the Yellow Sea expert on the subject, Dr. In-Kwon Jang

Atelier de démonstration et de dissémination des résultats du Projet pilote du Benin

Workshop of demonstration and dissemination of the results of the pilot project in Benin: Marine Protected Areas(MPA)

Site visit of the sacred mangrove of Avlékété: Marine Protected Areas(MPA) Benin

GCLME countries seek regional policy on use of oil dispersants

Accra, 22 June - Reach back momentarily to 1989 and the Exxon Valdez tanker oil spill. The disaster alerted the world to possible future accidents of this nature.

Regional Training Workshop on Compliance, Monitoring and Enforcement (CME) of the Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention

Interim Guinea Current Commission member states agree to harmonize use of Oil Spill dispersants use in the Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem.

ACCRA, 27 June – West and Central African members of the Interim Guinea Current Commission (IGCC) /Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem (GCLME) project agreed on ways to start developing a regional policy on the use of chemical dispersants

Fin de l’Atelier de Dissémination des Résultats du Projet ICAM Kribi Cameroun

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Workshop of demonstration and dissemination of the results of ICAM project in Kribi, Cameroon

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Coastal Erosion in Assinie, Côte d’Ivoire

Comprehensive Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for the Construction of Coastal Erosion Defense Measure in Assinie, Côte d’Ivoire

Coastal Erosion in Assinie

Comprehensive Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for the Construction of Coastal Erosion Defense Measure in Assinie, Côte d’Ivoire

Budgets sédimentaires dans la région du courant de Guinée

Le GEMCG pour une réduction de l’érosion côtière

6th World Water Forum, Marseille France

IGCC/GCLME at the 6th World water Forum

UNIDO/GCLME Project exhibition at the 6th World Water

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3rd GEF-UNDP-IMO-GloBallast Global Project Task Force Meeting Cape Town

GloBallast Partners group photograph