His Excellency Jan Fury, the Czech Ambassador to Ghana has commissioned the Bia Tano International Greenhouse Gas Monitoring and Global Change Research Station of the University of Energy and Natural Resources.

The station is a joint scientific research project between UENR, the Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Republic (CzechGlobe) and other governmental institutions including the Ghana Forestry Commission, and the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG).

The station will be responsible for the direct measurements of forest-atmosphere exchanges of carbon dioxide, water, energy, and other trace gases that allow the university to observe the whole forest ecosystem metabolism (including soil measurements).

It will further help the university to quantify the role of forests as sources of trace gases, the input of gaseous pollutants and nutrients, and the role of our tropical Ghanaian forests in cleansing the atmosphere through carbon uptake from the atmosphere.

At a short ceremony held at the University's main campus in Sunyani, Ambassador Fury said Czech and Ghana had long bilateral relations and expressed the hope such relations would be deepened for the benefit of both countries.

Professor Elvis Asare Bediako, the Vice Chancellor of the UENR expressed appreciation to the Czech government for the project saying it would greatly help Ghana check and mitigate climate change.

Source: Ghana/Sompaonline.com/K.Peprah