Join Positive Money, Mariana Mazzucato, Kate Bell (TUC), Danny Sriskandarajah (NEF) and Clive Lewis MP at Labour Party Conference

Advisory group will help develop a Circular Economy Strategy to support economic growth, create jobs, promote resource efficiency, and accelerate transition to net zero

Green financing isn’t a trend Ghanaian Businesses can afford to watch from the sidelines. Climate change has stopped being a problem for tomorrow. For many businesses today, its impact is already visible on the balance sheet; rising energy costs, disrupted supply chains, flood-related logistics delays, and productivity challenges linked to unreliable power supply. For small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which constitute approximately 92% of registered businesses in Ghana and contribute close to 70% of the country’s GDP, these are not abstract environmental concerns. They are real and growing operational costs that erode margins, affect competitiveness, and make business predictability and planning increasingly difficult. For years, sustainability was treated as something only large corporates needed to think about; at best ,a line in an annual report or a box to tick. That narrative is changing. Increasingly, how a business manages energy, water and waste determine whether it can win contracts, access financing (and at what cost) and compete for market share. The ground has shifted under Ghana’s financial sector. The subject of sustainability is no longer a distant, overseas conversation. Ghana’s own regulatory architecture has moved quickly in the last two years: The Bank of Ghana’s Sustainable Banking Principles, first developed...

Words by Alice Pearson, Project Creation Officer for Moors for the Future Partnership