EPA Boss Sits At Top Position Of West African Alliance On Carbon Market 

By P. Vangerline Kpotoe

MONROVIA, June 19 (LINA) – The Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr. Emmanuel Urey has been appointed to a top role of the West African Alliance on Carbon Market and Climate Finance (WAACMCF).

Dr. Urey was appointed Monday, June 10, 2024, at the SB 60 Climate Change conference in Bonn Germany, as Ambassador of the Alliance.

Speaking in an interview with the Liberia News Agency (LINA), the EPA head said, the alliance aims to enhance the position of West African countries in the International Carbon markets making the nations to benefit from technology transfers, and access result-based climate finance for National Determined Contribution (NDC) implementation.

Dr. Urey noted that elevating the carbon and climate finance discussion at the level of ECOWAS is vital and that Liberia’s Carbon potential is the highest in West Africa. 

He said the work of the alliance is to train experts from West Africa on the issues of the carbon market, adding that Liberia has benefited from a series of training from the alliance.

“Based on my interaction with the group in Germany, the group decided to appoint me as Ambassador. My role is to mainstream their work and to achieve these goals. The West African Alliance for Carbon Market and Climate Finance relies on promoting access to market mechanisms and climate finance on national and regional levels,” he noted.

The EPA boss emphasized that the WAACMCF head office, which is in Senegal, Dakar, comprises 16 member states. They include: Liberia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.