Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said Ghana and the rest of the developing world urgently need a comprehensive, viable plan towards the transition from fossil fuels to renewables.
According to him, the costs associated with the continued use of fossil fuels as a driver of the economy are high now and may go even higher in the future.
He noted that the government shall also take steps to promote clean energy sources including biofuels, Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), Electric, Hydrogen fuels, etc. as fuels for vehicles and provide low-carbon and highly competitive energy supply to establish Ghana as an energy and e-mobility hub for the West African Sub-Region.
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Dr Bawumia said these when he addressed the opening ceremony for a National Energy Transition Forum organised by the Ministry of Energy in collaboration with the Ministries of Transport, Finance, and Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation in Accra on Tuesday, 22 February 2022.
The National Energy Transition Forum was on the theme ‘Moving Ghana Towards a Net-Zero Future.'