Institutional Governance in Ghana's Energy Sector: Legal, Policy and Regulatory Challenges in Setting Ghana on the Path to Net Zero
Article from: OGEL 4 (2022), in Energy Transition
Abstract
Many African countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), have high vulnerability to climate change and energy insecurity; and are saddled with a variety of environmental and climate-related challenges, from droughts to loss of biodiversity. Rising global temperatures have already increased the frequency of floods, wildfires, droughts, and heatwaves around the world. As a corollary of this, the centrality of a stable climatic environment to their development cannot be overstated. Hence, the need for transition to a low carbon economy appears to transcend the global ...