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Supporting the Paris Climate Agreement The Role of Earth Observations National Perspective - Ghana. Foster Mensah Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services University of Ghana.
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Supporting the Paris Climate Agreement The Role of Earth Observations National Perspective - Ghana Foster Mensah Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services University of Ghana GEO Climate Workshop Earth Observations for the Paris Agreement 13 June 2018, Geneva Switzerland
About GHANA • Joined UNFCCC in 1995 • Submitted 3rd National Communication (NC) in 2015 • Submitted 1st Biennial Update Report (BUR) in 2015 • The reporting process has improved with time • awareness on climate change (cc) • enhancing technical capacity • data generation to inform planning • and design of cc interventions • Currently working on 4th NC and 2nd BUR
Institutional arrangement for National Communication Reporting • Sector Teams (Government, Academia, CSOs) • Energy • Industrial Process and Product Use • AFOLU • Waste • Focus of Sector Teams • Mitigation • Steps to adaptation • MRV
Opportunities for EO-based GHG reporting • Appreciation of EO-based information products • User engagement and product delivery • Mapping approaches for heterogeneous landscapes • Inadequate Institutional capacities
Enhancing EO data uptake for GHG reporting • Producing LULC maps, data analysis tools and user interfaces • Update LULC maps with current satellite images • Technical capacity enhancement • Sustaining sensitization of decision makers on EO applications
Mitigation Declining Forest Index values exhibit large disturbance anomalies near a forest reserve boundary
Adaptation planning Land cover by ecological zone District level flood risk