The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to train about 180 students from some selected Senior High Schools in the Northern Region as Ambassadors.
They are expected to lead a crusade in their local communities against human factors causing the depletion of the ozone layer.
The students are selected from Tamale Senior High (TAMASCO), Ghana Senior High (GHANASCO), Vitting Senior High, Tamale Islamic Senior High, Business Secondary and St. Charles Senior High schools.
The EPA has already established environmental clubs in 52 Senior High, 13 Junior High and 15 primary schools.
At the official launch of the outreach programme at Tamasco, Northern Regional Director of the EPA, Abu Iddrisu said, “It is a maiden programme organized by the Environmental Protection Agency in tandem with the United Nations Development Programme and the objective is to create awareness about the causes and impacts of ozone layer depletion.”
“This is the maiden programme we have tried to establish in the northern sector to create awareness about the causes and impacts of ozone layer depletion: in fact it is a programme that has been created to stimulate deep thinking and also to get students to be aware of some of the consequences that we have as a result of the depletion of the ozone layer,” he added.
He maintained that tackling the ozone layer depletion menace required a multiplicity of solutions, hence the training of the ambassadors.
Abu Iddrisu thus urged the participants to perform their civic responsibilities as required.
He said Ghana adopted the Montreal Protocol in 1987 and ratified it in 1989 to showcase the nation’s commitment to the fight against depletion of the ozone layer.
A senior officer of the EPA at the headquarters, Emmanuel Osae-Quansah educated the participants on the Science of Ozone layer depletion phenomenon and its effects on humankind.
Some of the participants asked and brilliantly answered questions on ozone layer depletion.
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By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah/Citifmonline.com/Ghana