Addis Ababa: The Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) pledges to continue rendering its effective contributions towards the successful implementation the national green development strategy which is a viable tool to pull the nation out of the social psychology of dependence and pave the way towards national prosperity.
A panel discussion organized by ENA under the theme ‘Green Development for Sustainable Prosperity’ held in Dire Dawa City today.
Members of the House of Peoples’ Representatives, officials from the federal government and Dire Dawa City Administration, representatives of local and international organizations working on climate change, leaders of media houses and professionals on the issue of the environment and invited guests presided over the panel discussion.
The panel discussed on range of issues including the role of media in addressing climate change.
Speaking on the occasion, the CEO of ENA Seife Deribe said that the ongoing national green legacy agenda has been nurturing the culture of environ
mental protection among the Ethiopians in addition to its vast contribution to mitigating desertification and flooding by planting trees.
The country is engaged in preparing and planting billions of tree seedlings with the objective of preventing the devastative effects of flood and desertification as strategies of environmental protection by mobilizing all communities, he added.
Hence, Seife stated that the launching of tree planting program has become a day which all Ethiopians look upon to happen every year.
After the inception of the national reform program and following the exemplary role played by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the event has become an occasion on which regional governments and city administrations come together to make the issue of national green legacy initiative as a hub of convergence and point of intersection,, the CEO added.
He said that the strategy has become instrumental in effectively detesting dependency and working towards sustained national prosperity under the theme ‘ Let u
s Plant Today for Tomorrow’ in depicting and fostering unity on our common agenda with steadfastness and cooperation in planting 500 million tree seedlings in a single day last year setting a global record for the country in building a livable Ethiopia for all citizens.
The CEO noted that wide range of preparations and programs are underway this year to implement the National Green Legacy Initiative to be implemented at national level.
According to him, the Green Legacy Initiative aims at transferring a preferable green ecosystem to the coming generation, retaining and using our natural resources, to effectively combat the effects of climate change, promoting the agricultural sector on crop and livestock production, prevention of sporadic floods and other related natural and manmade calamities, Seife elaborated.
He further noted that the Initiative will enhance patriotic self-reliance and prevention of dependency syndrome.
Seife stressed that media houses play a greater role in further promoting Ethiopia’
s globally recognized green legacy initiative and the role the country is playing at the international and regional level in curbing the effects of climate change by setting a practical example for the neighboring countries and the nations across the world.
He added that ENA is according a greater focus on making the issue of the Green Legacy Initiative as public agenda to roll back the social psychology of dependence and promotion of national prosperity.
The CEO of ENA remarked that his Agency has prepared 13 panel discussions in Addis Ababa and regional states on various issues and the current panel discussion underway is the 14th focusing on Green Legacy.
Source: Ethiopian News Agency