The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) and the Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMeT) are calling for a significant creativity of climate tracking stations around the nation to give a boost to Ghana’s early caution and local weather prediction programs.

Both establishments say the loss of good enough infrastructure and restricted get entry to to localized local weather records proceed to undermine correct forecasting and nationwide preparedness in a fast-changing local weather.

The name used to be made throughout the primary assembly of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group, held at the sidelines of the COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil.

EPA Chief Executive and Vice-Chair of IPCC Working Group I, Prof. Nana Ama Browne Klutse, expressed worry over the “serious inadequacy” of native local weather tracking stations.

She said that whilst the IPCC’s Interactive Atlas has considerably advanced get entry to to international local weather records, the absence of localized measurements stays a significant problem for Ghana.

Created in 1988 by way of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the IPCC supplies clinical proof to lead international local weather coverage. To support get entry to to local weather data, the Panel evolved the Interactive Atlas, a virtual instrument that visualizes patterns, projections, and local weather affects throughout areas.

According to Prof. Klutse, “The Interactive Atlas has provided motivation for the Ghana Meteorological Agency to develop a Climate Atlas for Ghana. Beyond that, every Ghanaian can access data from the global atlas for scientific reports and publications.”

She added that the atlas, evolved as a part of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report, supplies treasured datasets that may be downscaled to the African, West African, or even Ghanaian ranges.

“One can extract data on rainfall, temperature, humidity both observed and projected, which are crucial for planning and decision-making,” she defined.

Despite those advances, Prof. Klutse stressed out that the absence of native records networks continues to restrict forecasting accuracy.

“Ideally, we should have meteorological stations recording weather observations at intervals of about two kilometers. In Ghana, these are spaced much farther apart, creating data gaps that affect weather reporting and climate projections,” she stated.

The Director-General of the Ghana Meteorological Agency, Dr. Eric Asumah, echoed the fear, emphasizing the desire for extra ground-level statement stations.

“It’s good to use global and satellite data, but we also need ground truth, real local data to validate what satellites show,” he stated.

Dr. Asumah added that restricted floor records makes localized forecasting tricky. “People in Ghana want location-specific forecasts. They want to know if it will rain in Osu, Adenta, or Madina not just ‘Accra and its environs.’ To do that, we need more automatic weather stations and equipment, ideally at five-kilometer intervals across the country,” he stated.

At COP30, the IPCC is emphasizing a international shift from wisdom to motion, urging governments to transport past consciousness towards concrete implementation of local weather adaptation, growth milestone, and resilience methods.

For the primary time, the IPCC’s upcoming Seventh Assessment Report will come with devoted chapters on adaptation growth milestone and responses to loss and injury a transfer that underscores the rising urgency to enhance prone nations.

The Panel maintains that retaining international warming inside of 1.5 °C continues to be technically conceivable, however simplest with “immediate, deep, and sustained reductions in CO₂ emissions,” along large-scale carbon removing.

By hanging higher emphasis on adaptation, fairness, and sustainable entrepreneurship objectives (SDGs), the IPCC is aligning science with coverage and implementation a funding that resonates strongly with Ghana’s name for advanced early caution programs and data-driven local weather resilience.

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