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Regional News of Monday, 16 January 2012

Source: GNA

AAP to dialogue with high level persons on Climate Change

Accra, Jan. 16, GNA - Mr Winfrey Nelson, Coordinator of African Adaptation Programme (AAP), a United Nations programme to help address climate change issues in Africa, on Monday said a lot had been done in terms of education and awareness creation on climate change issues even though the impact was low.

He said the AAP Office in Ghana therefore planned to meet and dialogue with high level people in Ghana to discuss climatic issues and how to get people at the grassroots involved.

"We plan to dialogue with the coalition of Civil Society Organisations, Parliamentarians, Chief Directors, and Ministers of State," he said.

Mr Nelson told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that AAP had for instance supported Walewale, a village in the Mamprusi West District with a pumping machine to enab'