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Civic Response
Civic Response is a natural resource and environmental (NRE) governance policy advocacy organisation working to entrench resource rights.
In October 2025, Ghana's first FLEGT-licenced timber arrived in the EU, ushering in an era of legal, transparent and sustainable timber powered by Ghana’s traceability system. This is how the traceability system works and why it matters.![]()
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Tracking Ghana's Timber: Protecting Forests and People
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In 2009, Ghana ratified a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with the European Union to trade in legal timber in both domestic and export markets, with th...
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A new Legislative Instrument seeking to revoke L.I. 2462 was laid in Parliament last Friday. The controversial L.I. 2462, which allows mining in forest reserves, will effectively be revoked once the new L.I. matures in 21 sitting days.![]()
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New L.I. to prevent mining in forest reserves laid in Parliament - Instrument revokes 2022 law
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The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, has laid a new Legislative Instrument (L.I. 2505) in Parliament to revoke the existing law that permits mining in forest reservesDonors & Partners
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