Monrovia – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Liberia on Wednesday, March 6, 2019 commenced a three-day capacity building workshop on the preparation of National Greenhouse Gases (GHG) Inventories in Liberia. The workshop, according to authorities of the EPA is intended to build capacity as Liberia prepares to report its second national communication to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change. The rest of the sessions for the day were handled by Dr. Sumana Bhattacharya, who is the vice president for climate change at IORA ecological solutions. She led the workshop in assessing the capacity gaps in preparing a GHG inventory in Liberia. Madam Bhattacharya also trained participants of the workshop on the use of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) worksheets and the IPCC inventory software.

Source: Front Page Africa March 07, 2019 20:26 UTC