Establishing Carbon Markets In Ghana

The Ghana Carbon Market Office and the Ghana Carbon Registry are institutions under the framework that have helped to actualize Ghana's Article 6.2 framework. The Ghana Carbon Market Office was established under the Ghana Carbon Market Framework and mandated under the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Act, 1994 (Act 490). The Office is the department that is to give administrative and technical services to the public and help make the Ghana carbon market policy effective. The Carbon Market Office (CMO) is hosted by the EPA's Climate Change Unit. The CMO is required to perform the functions ascribed to them under the framework by implementing the policies effectively for the aim of the framework, which is the reduction of the emission of greenhouse gases to be achieved and also to advise the Minister accordingly.