Green Legacy Crucial in Protecting Environment, Maintaing Peace: Scholars
Ethiopia’s Green Legacy Initiative plays a great role in protecting the environment, preventing climate change, and bringing peace and stability to the country and the Eastern Africa region at large, scholars at a panel on Tackling Climate Change Impacts with the Green Legacy Initiative said today.
The Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) and the Ethiopian Agriculture Institute (EAI) organized the panel discussion which was opened by Peace Minister Binalf Andualem.
Opening the panel discussion, the minister stressed the cruciality of the continuing Green Legacy Initiative in tackling the impacts of climate change.
The Green Legacy Initiative also contributes to the protection of the environment and maintenance of peace and security in the country and in the region, Binalf noted.
During his presentation, Addis Ababa University Water Governance Associate Professor Yakob Arsano said Ethiopia has a long tradition of planting trees starting from the imperial times.
Unlike in the past, however, the campaign under the current government is massive and nationwide, he stated.
The scholar added that tackling the severe impacts of climate change can enormously contribute to peace and stability in the country as well as in eastern Africa region, Addis Ababa University Science and Technology Assistant Professor, Adanech Yared said on her part that Ethiopia has been implementing nature-based solutions to tackle the impacts of climate change.
The Green Legacy Initiative and Integrated Watershed Management are among the crucial initiatives under implementation to tackle the effects of climate change in the country and beyond, she stated.
According to her, the implementation of nature-based solutions such as the Green Legacy Initiative and integrated watershed management, especially in affected and vulnerable areas of Ethiopia, have a positive effect on the environment as water levels increase, ecosystems get protected and agricultural productivity improves.
Source: Ethiopian News Agency