The Environment Protection Agency participated in an interagency meeting convened by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change at the New Brookfield’s Hotel in Freetown.
19/8/2025, The Environment Protection Agency participated in an interagency meeting convened by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change at the New Brookfield’s Hotel in Freetown.
The meeting’s purpose was to bring together all departments and agencies within the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change to review progress on key programmes, prepare for upcoming parliamentary engagement, agree on next steps for national and international climate priorities, and provide updates for the consolidated report to the Parliamentary Committee on the Environment.
For the EPA as the principal environmental regulatory agency, the Executive Chairman, Dr Abu-Bakar Massaquoi, provided an overview of multilateral obligations, progress on the implementation of year 2 of the Transformation Strategy (EPATS), priorities and the matrix we utilise as an agency to achieve our target goals and objectives in the fight against the triple planetary crisis.
In their various presentations, heads of directorates, technical leads of key programs, and focal points of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) explained key programmes implemented by the agency, such as the third development of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC 3.0), the third generation of the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP), the National Pollutant Inventory (NPI), the Biodiversity Finance Strategy (Biofin), the Electric Mobility
Disaster risk management, flood reduction, forest conservation, and the management of protected areas were some of the other subjects discussed with boundary partners regarding overall environmental protection and governance.
Planning around COP30, establishment of the carbon market, status update and next steps of the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (IMF), and Global Climate Funds (GCF) updates on national work programmes, readiness grants and direct credit access accreditation formed a part of resource mobilisation avenues to fund national programmes that address the triple planetary crisis.
The meeting’s expected outcomes were met, and they will be communicated in due course.
