SYND partnered the Wildlife Division of the Ada Forestry Commission to embark on their first youth-led Mangrove restoration project in Wasakuse, Ada on 7th March 2024.This initiative which resulted in the planting of 2,000 red Mangrove seedlings of the Rhizophora Racemosa species was aimed at promoting biodiversity conservation and enhancing climate resilience of the surrounding […]
The Strategic Youth Network for Development has advised financial institutions in Ghana to only fund environment-friendly projects to protect the environment as the world grapples with climate crisis. This achieves the rationale of the ‘No Go Policy’, which explains that banks’ financing policy for projects and programmes may have dire consequences on the sustainability of […]
The Strategic Youth Network for Development (SYND) in partnership with Friends of the Earth (FoE-US) and Gower Street engaged Ghanaian financial institutions on protecting biodiversity. The inception meeting, held at Miklin Hotel in Accra, urged the institutions to adopt and implement principles of the Banks and Biodiversity ‘No Go’ policy. The ‘No Go’ policy, […]
THE coordinator for the Strategic Youth Network for Development (SYND), Chibeze Ezekiel, has urged banks to adopt the ‘Banks and Biodiversity No Go Policy’ when financing projects in the country to help create an eco-friendly environment. The ‘Banks and Biodiversity No Go Policy’ is an international campaign which demands that banks stop financing projects related […]
The Strategic Youth Network for Development (SYND), commemorated International Day of Biodiversity with a hybrid event as part of its Banks and Biodiversity No Go Policy campaign under the theme “Building a Sustainable future for all. The role of banks”. SYND held the event in partnership with Friends of the Earth USA, Gower Street, African Climate […]
Strategic Youth Network for Development (SYND) has reiterated calls for banks to thoroughly screen projects before financing them in the quest to conserve biodiversity. It emphasised that if banks keep to the ‘Biodiversity No Go Policy’, which requires financial institutions to conduct environmental risk assessments of project proposals, “screening out” high-risk ones as they may […]