Climate Stewards Calculator
The Climate Stewards Calculator enables you to calculate how much CO₂ you have emitted through your travel and household energy use. This is an opportunity to consider your carbon footprint and how the equivalent may be paid forward as a gift to those most affected by climate change today. Check out ways you can reduce your footprint by living lighter.
Funds from this calculator support A Rocha Ghana’s work with smallholder farmers and fisher folk communities who live around Lake Bosomtwe, a Climate Stewards Seal of Approval program.
Your tax deductible gift to A Rocha Canada will be used for the program or project you have designated. If the need for that program or project has been fully met, we will reallocate remaining funds to areas of greatest need.
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The Impact of Your Gift
A Rocha Ghana works with children of all ages to educate on climate change and environmental care.
An A Rocha Ghana staff member checking a tree planted in 2020 as part of a regular monitoring routine.
Climate Stewards has been supporting A Rocha Ghana’s work with 22 communities of smallholder farmers and fisher folk who live around Lake Bosomtwe in central Ghana.
Lake Bosomtwe is situated within an ancient impact crater located in semi-deciduous rainforest to the south-east of Kumasi in central Ghana. It is an area with significant biodiversity and the communities that live around the lake are reliant on farming and fishing. However, climate change is threatening their livelihoods as rainfall patterns become increasingly erratic.
A Rocha Ghana works closely with smallholders to ensure that the land used for tree planting is surplus to their food crop requirements. Farmers are paid an “Ecosystem Services” payment at regular intervals over the first 15 years of the project’s life, as compensation for their labour in planting and caring for the trees.
One of the significant impacts of this project is the empowerment of women in the local communities through agroforestry training. As a result, they have increased yields and diversified income streams, improving life for their families and transforming them into role models for other women in their communities.
Your gift will also support environment clubs in four lakeside schools, run by A Rocha Ghana staff and volunteers from the local university, teaching young people about how to protect the lake and training them in planting and caring for trees.