Chibeze Ezekiel
Occupation
Notable work
  • He is the founder of Strategic Youth Network for Development.
Awards
  • Goldman Prize 2020

Chibeze Ezekiel (born 1979 or 1980) is a Ghanaian environmental activist and a 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize award recipient for Africa.[1][2][3][4] He is known to have challenged the Ghanaian Ministry of Environment to cancel the construction of a coal plant through activism.[5][6]

Life and career

He is the founder of Strategic Youth Network for Development,[7][8] a youth-centered organization for environmental and social change in Ghana. He was also the National Coordinator of 350 Ghana Reducing Our Carbon (350 GROC)[9] and he is the chairman of Youth in Natural Resource and Environmental Governance (Youth-NREG).[1] He serves as Panel Member of International Experts on the Environment of Peace 2022 (EP 2022) project.[10]

Activism

The government of Ghana in 2013 proposed the construction of a 700 MW coal power plant and an adjoining port in Aboabo in Ekumfi district. The project was proposed by the Volta River Authority and Shenzhen Energy Group: The project required a $1.5 Billion loan from China African Development Fund and it was going to be the first of a kind in Ghana which has no coal reserves, hence there would be importation of raw material annually from South Africa estimated to be about 2 million tons.[2]

Chibeze led grassroots campaign against the construction of a coal-fired power station in Ghana. He worked with the local communities educating them on the effect and damage the coal-fired power station would result to. He further requested that the government switch to renewable energy.[11][12]

In 2022, he was a possible contender according to experts as an environmental activist for Nobel Peace Prize.[13]

Awards

He started as a certified youth trainer on climate change in 2009, and 10 years pass after all his works became a Winner of the Goldman Prize 2020 [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Ghanaian environmental activist Chibeze Ezekiel wins Goldman Environmental Prize". Citinewsroom - Comprehensive News in Ghana. 2020-11-30. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  2. 1 2 "Chibeze Ezekiel". Goldman Environmental Foundation. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  3. ↑ "Chibeze Ezekiel, the activist who blocked a coal power plant in Ghana". LifeGate. 2020-12-24. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
  4. ↑ "SYND celebrates Mr. Chibeze Ezekiel for winning the Goldman Prize". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
  5. ↑ "No Denying It episode 10: The Try Guys Introduce Chibeze Ezekiel". UN News.
  6. ↑ "This Activist Stopped Ghana From Building A Coal Power Plant". Time. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
  7. ↑ accesscoalition (2021-03-16). "Chibeze Ezekiel's Long Road to the Goldman Prize". Alliance of Civil Society Organisations for Clean Energy Access. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
  8. ↑ "Chibeze Ezekiel Archives - MyJoyOnline.com". www.myjoyonline.com. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
  9. ↑ "Ghana: Environmental defender Chibeze Ezekiel wins 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize for Africa - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre". www.business-humanrights.org. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  10. ↑ "Ghanaian environmentalist appointed on Environment of Peace 2022 project". Citinewsroom - Comprehensive News in Ghana. 2020-09-20. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  11. ↑ "One man's fight to stop a coal power station". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  12. ↑ "Chibeze Ezekiel - Board Member at 350.org". THE ORG. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
  13. ↑ "Nobel 2022 prize season under shadow of war in Ukraine". France 24. 2022-09-30. Retrieved 2022-10-07.


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