INTRODUCTION
Demonstrating the Application of Technological Tools and Economic Approaches
This component will finance the selection and application of specific cleaner technologies in contaminated areas of each country. The technologies will be chosen based on criteria aiming at: reducing environmental health risks at the community level, cost effectiveness, and potential for replication (scale-up). Thus, the investments will be community-focused, and the project will be technology-neutral, to ensure that the most appropriate and cost-effective technology choices are made.
No Pollution
Afforstation
Clean water
Good health
Animal Habitat
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An estimated two to three million people in Africa are at risk of exposure to toxic chemicals from ASGM4. Rising international gold prices have made ASGM an attractive employment alternative for struggling farmers, poor rural communities, and migrant laborers. Ghana and Tanzania each have ASGM workforces estimated at more than 1 million people. However, ASGM has been consistently listed as a major source of water and soil pollution. Serious health concerns associated with heavy metal poisoning from metals such as cadmium and mercury are disproportionally affecting poor and vulnerable people. It is estimated that gold production from small-scale mining accounts for about 38 percent of total mercury emissions on the continent. A mercury trade diagnostic study conducted by the Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy Global Practice estimated that 90 to 95 percent of mercury used is smuggled from neighboring nations. However, there is limited data and knowledge about the amount of mercury used or the extent of mercury contamination and its health, environmental, and social impacts.