NEA, GEF convene national dialogue on environmental challenges

The two-day forum, held at Coco Ocean Bijilo, was designed to provide support and assist countries in deciding how to optimise the use of resources available through the facility. 

Speaking at the forum, Dawda Badjie, executive director of National Environment Agency, revealed that scientific study shows that planet earth’s fundamental life support systems are being threatened and affected significantly by human activities which have degraded the ecosystem and species of all time globally.

This, he added, invade and poses serious threat to the supply of food, water, medicine and other essential life support systems to mankind and all God created creatures.

“Global warming due to increase rate of pollution of water systems, poor waste management; issues threatening the quality of water and agricultural productivity from a global dimension. The Gambia cannot remain unaffected by this development.” he said.

For her, Rohey John-Manjang, minister of Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources, noted that it’s unfortunate that The Gambia contributes around 0.01% to the environmental, but added that ‘we are all encountering it today.”

“This gives us no reason to sit back and allow our population go through the impact of climate change.”

This dialogue, she added, is therefore a means of providing support to The Gambia to assist in deciding how to optimise the use of our 12,000,000 dalasi funds from GEF aid allocated The Gambia.