Automobile coys charged to fight global warming
By Issah Alhassan, Kumasi - Ghanaian Chronicle
General News | Tue, 03 Jun 2008
General News | Tue, 03 Jun 2008
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The Managing Director of Toyota Ghana Company Limited, Mr. Masato Kimata, has underscored the need for automobile companies and manufacturers, to assume a leading role in the fight against the threat of global warming.
According to him, even though manufacturers of automobiles have brought wonderful freedom of mobility, new levels of comfort, convenience and safety, it also poses devastating consequences on the environment and the society, through the emissions these vehicles emit.
Mr. Kimata, who made this observation in a speech read on his behalf, by the Human Resource Manager of the company, Mrs. Diana Caverson, during a tree-planting exercise to mark the company's 10th Anniversary celebration in Kumasi, said the planet earth was currently encountering huge challenges, through the activities of human beings, which he noted had contributed to the destruction of millions of hectares of rainforest, the release of millions of tones of toxic chemicals into the environment, desertification and the unstable use of resources, resulting in the loss of numerous plants and animals.
The tree-planting exercise, which formed part of the company's aims and objectives of becoming the most customer-focused, and environmentally-friendly automobile company in Ghana, is also geared towards helping Kumasi recapture its past ornamental beauty, as the Garden City of West Africa.
The company has therefore proposed embarking on a GH¢1,400 city-wide tree planting program, which would involve the planting of over 100 trees, at vantage points in the city, with the assistance of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Youth Council, Department of Park and Gardens, and the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA).
Mr. Kimata observed that as a long term plan, to reduce the harm of global warming, the Toyota Company would commit itself to developing, and making available to its customers, environmentally-friendly vehicles, with the lowest possible emission levels, which have little or no effect on the environment.
He decried the poor state of the Kumasi Metropolis, as a result of the indiscriminate destruction of trees and other river bodies, and expressed optimism that with the assistance of its collaborators, the vision of re-greening Kumasi, would be achieved.
On her part, the acting Ashanti Regional Director of the EPA, Mrs. Philomena Boakye Appiah, noted that at the time when the population of vehicles, and other machinery which use fossil fuels, were fast increasing, trees and forests, which serve as carbon sinks, were being depleted at a disturbing rate, to the detriment of man's existence.
She observed that about 60% of the discharge of environmental pollution, was from the transport sector, indicating that the only way to control the phenomenon would be by conserving energy, halting deforestation, and planting more trees.
As a result, Mrs. Appiah has hailed the initiative by the Toyota Company, as laudable, and one that would go a long way to help the country, in the realization of the ultimate objectives of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change, and the Kyoto Protocol, which hopes to achieve stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, to a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
Source: Issah Alhassan, Kumasi - Ghanaian Chronicle
According to him, even though manufacturers of automobiles have brought wonderful freedom of mobility, new levels of comfort, convenience and safety, it also poses devastating consequences on the environment and the society, through the emissions these vehicles emit.
Mr. Kimata, who made this observation in a speech read on his behalf, by the Human Resource Manager of the company, Mrs. Diana Caverson, during a tree-planting exercise to mark the company's 10th Anniversary celebration in Kumasi, said the planet earth was currently encountering huge challenges, through the activities of human beings, which he noted had contributed to the destruction of millions of hectares of rainforest, the release of millions of tones of toxic chemicals into the environment, desertification and the unstable use of resources, resulting in the loss of numerous plants and animals.
The tree-planting exercise, which formed part of the company's aims and objectives of becoming the most customer-focused, and environmentally-friendly automobile company in Ghana, is also geared towards helping Kumasi recapture its past ornamental beauty, as the Garden City of West Africa.
The company has therefore proposed embarking on a GH¢1,400 city-wide tree planting program, which would involve the planting of over 100 trees, at vantage points in the city, with the assistance of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Youth Council, Department of Park and Gardens, and the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA).
Mr. Kimata observed that as a long term plan, to reduce the harm of global warming, the Toyota Company would commit itself to developing, and making available to its customers, environmentally-friendly vehicles, with the lowest possible emission levels, which have little or no effect on the environment.
He decried the poor state of the Kumasi Metropolis, as a result of the indiscriminate destruction of trees and other river bodies, and expressed optimism that with the assistance of its collaborators, the vision of re-greening Kumasi, would be achieved.
On her part, the acting Ashanti Regional Director of the EPA, Mrs. Philomena Boakye Appiah, noted that at the time when the population of vehicles, and other machinery which use fossil fuels, were fast increasing, trees and forests, which serve as carbon sinks, were being depleted at a disturbing rate, to the detriment of man's existence.
She observed that about 60% of the discharge of environmental pollution, was from the transport sector, indicating that the only way to control the phenomenon would be by conserving energy, halting deforestation, and planting more trees.
As a result, Mrs. Appiah has hailed the initiative by the Toyota Company, as laudable, and one that would go a long way to help the country, in the realization of the ultimate objectives of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change, and the Kyoto Protocol, which hopes to achieve stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, to a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
Source: Issah Alhassan, Kumasi - Ghanaian Chronicle
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