Localising centralised climate policies in Ghana: insights from 3 local governments

Ama Kissiwah Boateng

Urban Research & Practice, 2023, vol. 16, issue 3, 470-482

Abstract: Urban climate governance scholarship has paid little attention in Sub-Saharan Africa, where studies of this kind are needed. Using semi-structured interviews with officials from three local governments with populations less than 300,000 inhabitants, this paper explores how centralized climate policies are implemented locally in Ghana. The results show that though the national climate policies are good tools, local government’s ability to implement them is quite limited due to a lack of independence and funding to make climate decisions. But with the growing climate crisis, the paper concludes that urban climate governance is likely to improve especially in developing countries.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2022.2129173

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