By Mavis Quansah
Tema, Sept. 29, GNA – Mr. Sherif Ghali, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Chamber for Young Entrepreneurs Ghana, has admonished businesses and entrepreneurs to prioritise issues of climate change in their operations.
Mr. Ghali mentioned that entrepreneurs should do well to green their businesses to protect the environment while making profit.
He added that climate change is one of the challenges the country is facing, expressing the belief that the little effort businesses invest in their activities will help the minimise climate change and its effects.
Mr. Ghali, speaking at a technological entrepreneur fair (techno-preneurship) organised by the Data Link Institute of Business and Technology (DLIBT), reiterated that, instead of printing papers to display information, organisations and young entrepreneurs could use emails and online messages to convey and display information.
He added that if all organisations decide to stop printing papers and result in online messages, it means cutting down trees to make papers will minimise, leading to a decline in deforestation and its contribution to climate change.
He added that leveraging on technology can be the easier way organisations can use to minimise climate change.
He further encouraged businesses to plant trees in their environment to help handle some of the toxic gases emitted into the air through industrialisation processes.
He encouraged universities to empower their students to come up with creative and innovative jobs to reduce unemployment.
“Entrepreneurship is the new way to go because there are no jobs to employ people. Every year, thousands of students graduate from our universities, and they are all waiting for government employment, but if these students are trained with the skills to create their own job, it will really help and reduce unemployment,” he stated.
He added that his outfit was working on supporting young entrepreneurs both with training and financially to make sure their start-ups grow into a bigger company.
He noted that one of the main challenges young entrepreneurs face is funding and therefore advised heads of schools to invite agencies and angel investors who have interest in micro, small, and medium enterprises to such entrepreneur fairs to give student entrepreneurs exposure to funding.
GNA