EPA launches strategy on environmental sustainabilityBy Hassan Lansana Koroma
The Environment Protection Agency (EPA), in collaboration with its partners, has launched the “Collaborating Learning and Adapting” (CLA) strategy on environmental sustainability at the New Brookfield’s Hotel in Freetown.
The launch brought together innovators, collaborators, advocates and policy makers who partnered with stakeholders to amplify their impact and drive positive change with new ideas and technologies to address environmental problems.
Speaking at the official launching ceremony, Dr Abu Bakar S. Massaquio, Executive Chairman, EPA, thanked participants for witnessing the EPA first Collaborating Learning and Adapting Conference 2025.
He said the two-day conference will showcase their activities from in years, adding that the EPA has mobilized USD 13Million and a hundred and forty-eight billions Leone’s exceeding the agency’s target by sixty-six billion Old Leones in 2024.
He noted that those were some of the achievements highlighted so far.
Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Jiwoh Abdulia, acknowledged the conference on collaboration,stating that it was an opportunity to come together and make meaningful decisions for the environment and share knowledge on climate change.
He said collaboration is important in both national and local levels, thereby encouraging foreign investors to come together and invest in protecting the environment.
Hon. Yusuf Mackery, Chairman, Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Environment said government has increased funding from 80% to 90% to the EPA, in support to preventing the environment.
Chief Minister, Dr. David Moinina Sengeh, stresses on how the environment is being interrupted by human activities and the urgent solution it needs.
He said the first conference on collaborating learning and adapting is an active force to control and protect the coastal, as well as inland communities.
He urges all to help spread the news on how to safeguard the environment for the future generation by reducing artisanal and small-scale gold mining.
