The inaugural four-day training held from 23 to 26 June 2025, made a strong impact, drawing participants from across Ghana’s industrial sector, including consultants, energy managers, and company leaders. Attendees engaged in immersive sessions focused on the GHG Protocol, carbon markets, and decarbonisation strategies tailored to the local context. The training also included a valuable three-month post-training backstopping support period.
As this second cohort kicks off, participants are stepping in with a clear set of expectations that underscore both their individual aspirations and the collective momentum toward climate-smart industry.
“I joined the carbon training with the expectation of learning how to calculate for my firm’s Scope 1 and 2 emissions and, importantly, how to develop a decarbonisation strategy,” shared one participant, highlighting the demand for practical tools and long-term planning. - Enoch Opare Mintah. Lead, FreelanceLeaps and Heights Services Limited.
Pierre-Antoine Vernet, Manager, Climate Finance and Sustainable Agriculture at Swisscontact Ghana, and Eugene Masiku, Communications and Project Officer at Swisscontact Ghana, highlighted the essence of the training and the value of the partnership with AGI. They explained that the programme is not only about knowledge transfer but about equipping industries to better understand their emissions footprint and translate this into actionable decarbonisation strategies.
They further emphasized that subsidising the cost of the training and providing follow-up backstopping support ensures that the private sector can access high-quality technical expertise that would otherwise be out of reach. This alignment of technical capacity-building with industry needs reflects Swisscontact’s vision of keeping businesses at the centre of Ghana’s climate transition.
This second round retains the proven, interactive structure of the initial training: four engaging days (25th–28th August 2025) of case studies, group exercises, site-specific examples, and policy briefings. It’s curated to foster both technical mastery in Scope 1, and 2, and accounting and actionable decarbonisation roadmaps relevant to Ghana’s industrial landscape.
As this cohort unfolds, participants are set not just to expand their technical knowledge but to become active ambassadors of sustainable industry practices, contributing to Ghana’s low-carbon transition, sector by sector.