Ghana
Nationally determined contribution
Targets
Ghana commits to an unconditional target of -24.6 MtCO2e and an unconditional target of -39.4 MtCO2e by 2030 (2019 as base year).
Article 6 engagement
Ghana intends to use voluntary cooperation under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement to achieve up to 55% (which is about 24 million tonnes of emission reductions) of its conditional absolute emission reductions.
Mitigation activities
Ghana NDC focuses on 19 policy actions translating into 13 adaptation measures (7 unconditional NDC and 6 conditional NDC) and 34 mitigations measures (9 unconditional NDC and 25 conditional NDC):
- Promote gender-responsive sustainable forest management
- Expansion of inter-and-intra-city transportation modes.
- Promotion of energy efficiency in homes, industry and commerce
- Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (RAC)
- Sustainable production in Industry
- Low carbon electricity generation
- Expand the adoption of market-based cleaner cooking solutions
- Promote sustainable charcoal production, including youth and women entrepreneurs
- Promote clean rural households lighting
- Scale-up renewable energy penetration by 10% by 2030
- Decarbonisation of oil and gas production
- Adopt alternative urban solid waste management
Sectors covered by the NDC
Energy, Industrial Processes and Product Use, LULUCF and Waste.
Finance needs
5.4 billion USD for the 31 conditional programmes of action (2020-2030) would be mobilised from the public, international, and private sector sources and carbon markets. Ghana will need an additional 3 million USD biennially to support coordination actions and the regular international reporting of the nationally determined contribution.
Carbon pricing
Status
Not available
Description
Not available
Carbon markets
National entities responsible for carbon markets
Article 6.2 authority
Ghana Carbon Market Office
cmo@epa.gov.gh
Dr. Daniel Tutu Benefoh
daniel.benefo@epa.gov.gh
Article 6.4 DNA
Dr. Daniel Tutu Benefoh
daniel.benefo@epa.gov.gh
CDM DNA
Peter Justice Dery
peterjdery@yahoo.com
Article 6 strategy and regulations
National registry
Pipeline
Article 6
Bilateral agreements
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Liechtenstein
Mitigation activities
- Ghana’s Transitional National Clean Energy Access Program
- Clean Cooking: Transformative Cookstoves in Rural Ghana
- Green AC market transformation programme
- Promotion of climate-smart Agriculture Practices for Sustainable Rice Cultivation
- Integrated waste recycling and composting for methane reduction in Ghana
- Landfill Gas Management
- Biomass pellet
- A programmatic approach to E-Mobility
- Biomass and electric pressure cookers
CDM
Data
As of December 31st, 2021, Household projects are the only CDM activity in Ghana with issued credits, accounting for a total of 1705.26 kt.
2019 was the year with the largest volume of issued credits for household projects, with 459.96 kt issued.
As of December 31st, 2021, Household projects are the only CDM activity in Ghana with voluntary cancellations, accounting for a total of 2.81 kt.
2022 was the year with the largest volume of voluntary cancellations for household projects, with 1.8 kt cancelled.
Voluntary Carbon Market
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As of September 6th, 2024, Ghana has 23 projects registered with the VCM, out of which 14 are registered with the GS and 9 are registered with the VCS.
As of September 6th, 2024, Household projects are the leading VCM activity in issued credits for Ghana, with a total of 10250.02 kt.
NBS projects are the second most prominent VCM activity, with issued credits accounting for 1864 kt.
As of September 6th, 2024, Household projects are the leading VCM activity in retired credits for Ghana, with a total of 8087.61 kt.
NBS projects are the second most prominent VCM activity, with retired credits accounting for 895 kt.