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Ghana’s environmental crisis is a political problem, not lack of knowledge – Prof. Frimpong-Boateng
Ghana’s environmental crisis is not primarily a problem of inadequate knowledge but a political problem arising from the failure to act on challenges the country has known about for decades, former Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation Minister, Prof.
He further noted that environmental benefits are often delayed and widely distributed, whereas the political costs of enforcement tend to be immediate and concentrated.
Environmental enforcement, he said, can therefore carry immediate political costs for those who implement it, while the benefits may only become visible years later.
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