Veep launches Environment Channel today

John Dramani Mahama, Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, will launch the Environment Channel, a path breaking television series, dedicated to the environment today, Thursday, 29 April, 2010 at Silverbird Cinemas at the Accra Mall.

The Environment Channel, which is expected to be broadcast on national television, will make environmental issues relevant to the daily lives of Ghanaians and bring home the importance of reversing environmental degradation.

The launch is being supported by the World Bank.

Other distinguished people expected to grace the occasion include Hon Sherry Ayittey, Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, Mr Allotey, Executive Director of Environmental Protection Agency, Hon Alfred Vanderpuije, Mayor of Accra, and representatives from the World Bank, Embassy of France, KASA, and Wienco Agriculture.

Highlights from the series will be screened, as well as a special presentation on plastic waste, one of Ghana’s most pressing environmental challenges.

The vice president in support of this project had this to say: “we are drowning in plastics, our environment is so polluted and this is not only an urban phenomenon. You go to the smallest village and there are plastics all over the place. Even the livestock are chewing plastics and dying.”