Africa’s Road to COP30: Ghana to host key meeting on sustainability and climate finance
Ghana is set to host the first stakeholder meeting for the Sixth Africa Sustainability Report and the Think Energy SDGs Awards to explore ways to create legislative and financial environments that can attract a share of the over US$40 trillion in global sustainable funding, a resource Africa has struggled to access due to limited human capacity and weak institutional frameworks.
The meeting organised by the Office of the Minister of State for Climate Change and Sustainability in partnership with the Association of African Sustainability Practitioners (AASuP), is set to happen on August 28, 2025, in a bid to bring together policymakers, industry leaders, researchers, academic institutions, civil society actors, and international development agencies.
According to the ministry, the meeting will afford participants the opportunity to make key inputs into Africa’s preparations for COP30 in Brazil later this year and review the continent’s progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the 2030 deadline approaches.
The participating institutions include the Bank of Ghana, Development Bank Ghana, Volta River Authority, University of Ghana, Accra Technical University, Ghana National Gas Company, Ministry of Finance, Ecobank, MTN Ghana, Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, and several foreign embassies, alongside key ministries and private sector players.
Discussion for the meeting is expected to focus on identifying challenges and opportunities in sustainable development, recognising outstanding contributions through the Think Energy SDGs Awards, and turning sustainability into financially bankable projects for investors.
The meeting will also mark the official launch of AASuP, the largest network of African sustainability practitioners, which will lead a new capacity-building programme to retool the continent’s human resource base for climate action.
This will address the current gap between government policies and academic institutions working on climate change, which has hindered effective policy implementation, knowledge transfer, and training.
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Source: Ghanaweb.com
