For the past two months, I have been working with a group of business consultants in Ghana. Through my social media platform, they identified that I was an environmental activist and also through social conversations, they were keen to understand climate change – the science and why it is a relevant topic that needs global attention. 

So, on Monday 28th November, I did a presentation to explain the science of climate change to people of business background. Most of them knew what climate change was but did not have a clear understanding on the cause and how they play a role in mitigating climate change. I started by explaining GHGs and also how modernization has impacted our climate. Most people raised issue of fuel based economies and how these economies will collapse if the world should totally go renewable. We dialogued on the issue for about 5mins and concluded that economies such as the US has made huge investments towards fossil fuel and that?s why it?s difficult for some investors in the country to accept clean energy. Despite these known hurdles, I led the discussion to inform my audience that leadership and governance is what we need to combat climate change. Countries need to be sensitive to the challenges of other countries that are extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. 

Relating to their question on how climate change is important and why it has global attention, I explained to them the impacts of climate change and used sea level rise as an example of how climate change could flood all major cities in the world in the next 15 to 30 years.

At the end of the talk, I had a good feedback from the consultants and together we all discussed eco-friendly lifestyles which could contribute to alleviating the impacts of climate change and also reduce our carbon footprint. I introduced them to Tunza Eco-Generation (although they are above the ages of 24) and encouraged them to visit the platform to learn more about climate change and other environmental topics. I gave them Tunza stick note souvenirs and ended my talk.