Businesses advised to prioritise climate change issues

Speaking at a techno-preneurship fair organised by the Data Link Institute of Business and Technology in Tema, Sherif Ghali, then CEO of the Ghana Chamber of Young Entrepreneurs, urged businesses and entrepreneurs to build climate action into their operations without giving up profit. His suggestions included replacing paper with digital communication to reduce deforestation and planting trees to offset emissions from industrial processes.

He also presented entrepreneurship as a response to graduate unemployment, named funding as young entrepreneurs’ main challenge, and asked schools to bring investors to entrepreneurship events.

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