……. Towards a National ESG Management: entrenching climate change action and responsible business principles for a socio-economic development of Ghana”
The Discovery ESG Sustainability Leadership Summit 2022 presented thought-provoking speakers with practical insights beyond just theory, panel discussions with well-rounded and salient topics which presented a great opportunity to meet with others in the industry to share best practices, lessons and pathways to move forward in the ever-evolving ESG landscape.
The Summit leveraged its unique platform to facilitate dialogues on ESG compliance framework and its related issues that pose challenging for compliance within the confines of individual organizations and businesses.
It combined thought leadership and networking sessions, served as a valuable forum for participants to establish significant professional connections, acquire knowledge and proposed solutions towards Climate change and responsible business conducts.
The Participants rated The Discovery ESG Sustainability Leadership Summit, 2022 as an invaluable experience which extremely and timely provided the needed tools and preparedness for organizations to respond to the evolving ESG regulatory landscape in Ghana.
The session was rich in content with relevant representation from industry professionals in the environment and sustainability leadership space.
The setting and size of the summit also allowed for meaningful conversations, intrigued with insights on ESG compliance benefits and practical connections with real case scenarios.
Participants left the conference with new perspectives, a greater understanding of how ESG is taking form in Ghana and especially within the financial industry as an emergence of expanded network of ESG professionals and thought leaders continue to grow.
Our key priority drive for discovery ESG summit
Discovery ESG Sustainability Leadership Summit is a flagship Discovery Leadership Event which is aimed at addressing issues of Climate Change and the wider ramifications on Ghana’s socio-economic progress and the implications associated with irresponsible business conducts.
This well-thought out yearly event is curated to address business sustainability challenges, to shape policy directions and pathways for the national good.
As professionals actively working to deepen knowledge about climate change risk and its mitigating and adaptation solutions, we are guided through our Summit:
- To advance ESG compliance framework as a strategic imperative for responsible business conduct and Climate action.
- To drive the understanding of the emergent impact of Climate Change and the stimulating effects for the enforcement of ESG policy measures across all sector businesses in Ghana.
- To rationalize the impacts and development of ESG principles towards establishing economically sustainable businesses
- To address the intricacies and challenges for regulatory ESG compliance and governance for businesses in Ghana and
- To discuss beyond Climate Change Action: The empirical evidence needed for corporate ESG engagement towards sustainable social investment.
TOWARDS THE DRIVE FOR A SUSTAINABLE 5 Ps
As intimated by the former EPA Boss, Hon. Dr. Henry Kokofu in a keynote speech given at the 2022, Discovery ESG Sustainability Leadership Summit, he emphasized the critical threat of human existence by the abuse of the environment, its negative impacts the government alone cannot solve.
In his statement, he emphasized, it can be difficult to refuse a good pay cheque on moral grounds when one needs to put food on the table. However, he advised that, businesses embrace, adopt, be guided by and follow green guiding principles in their operations to protect personal lives and planet”.
The keynote principle we glean from his statement that emboldens our philosophy and objective for our Summit, drives our commitment to align with the Sustainable Development agenda:
- Towards a Sustainable Planet
- To sustainably drive Social Equity among the People
- To champion Climate Justice for the attainment of Peace
- To actionalize the drive for economic Prosperity
- To foster the need for an enhanced collaboration and Partnerships
DISCOVERY ESG SUSTAINABILITY LEADERSHIP & AWARDS SUMMIT, 2025
It is a well-known fact that, the rise of ESG issues have generated much discussions as to how businesses and investors lead Climate change towards net zero.
Building on the success of our inaugural ESG Summit in 2022, we are delighted to announce Discovery ESG Sustainability Leadership & Awards Summit, 2025.
This forward-looking Summit is curated around Climate Change and ESG with real and lasting change through our deep-dive roundtable discussions, providing insight into what organizations ought to implement and how they ought to measure success.
Discovery ESG Sustainability Leadership & Awards Summit, 2025 is curated under the theme “Towards a National ESG Management: Entrenching Climate Change Action and Responsible Business principles for a Socio-economic Development of Ghana”.This year’s event aims at discussing responsible business principles and conducts, the integration of ESG policy framework into business decisions and the strategic approaches to leverage ESG framework as a vehicle to address certain critical socio-economic issues and challenges bedeviling the country, Ghana.
We seek to leverage the events’ impact to drive momentum for a national ESG policy across key sector ministries in the economy to address the critical environmental challenges like galamsey menace, perennial flooding, tidal waves, climate-related conflicts, re-echo the impacts of these challenges on the socio-economic development of Ghana and how as a country we could leverage ESG compliance to address these socio-economic and political challenges to enhance and consolidate ethical business conducts, drive economic and sustainable growth, build sustainable and resilient long term business performance among other critical social needs as well.
Our speaker topics and focus
In this year’s summit, we will be engaging key Political stakeholders, Business leaders, Governance experts, Policy analysts and Renowned ESG and Sustainability experts to serve as panelists to discuss matters of business and national interest around:
- Developing Strategies to drive collaborative action and stimulate socio-economic development
- Developing action plans to facilitate Climate change transition to help organization’s sustainability objectives as well as enabling organizations to contribute to leading change and beyond.
- Understanding the multifaceted business risk posed by ESG non-compliance, the strategic opportunities untapped and the value that may be created for the benefit of the country.
- Appreciating the ability to rewire business models for long term resilience and profitability in an uncertain and disruptive future among others.
We will in this Summit focus on addressing the following keynote topical issues around the impact of ESG compliance as a key Climate Change Action and strategy as follows:
- The Emergence of Climate Change and the stimulating effects for Climate Action towards a national ESG policy.
- Addressing the intricacies and challenges for regulatory ESG compliance and governance for businesses in Ghana
- Rationalizing the impacts and development of ESG principles towards establishing economically sustainable businesses.
- Advancing ESG compliance framework as a strategic imperative for responsible business conduct
- Beyond Climate Change Action: Empirical evidence for corporate ESG engagement towards sustainable social investment
Why partner and collaborate with discovery leadership
At Discovery Leadership Consulting, our vision is to be the most trusted partner; helping organizations to achieve their vision, through impactful training, thought leadership and management consultancy.
We build capacities to shift a whole systems mindsets to consistently address Organizational dilemmas as strategic leaders. We create direction, alignment and commitment in critical relationships to bridge functions, groups and geographies around priorities to stay resilient.
We assist leaders to be able to think, act and influence strategically in the face of disruption, complexity and chaos. We build better understanding of the role of leadership skills development (Self Awareness, Learning Agility, Influence and Communication) at any level of leadership play for impacts, resilience and success.
Our impact in this Summit would drive commitment by all stakeholders to benefit from knowledge sharing and pursue:
- Responsible Business Conducts and principles
- How to regulate and enforce an ESG compliance framework on key sector businesses
- Embedding Sustainability across Business Decisions
- Driving a national ESG compliance policy framework
- National ESG management as a Climate Change Action
ESG training policy and certification for Boards and Political office leadersWe warmly extend our invitation to individuals and corporate bodies to partner our effort through participation and sponsorship to address certain socio-economic impacts of Climate change and responsible business conduct in this august event.
Interested individuals and corporate bodies can contact 0241824033 for participation enquiries and registration.
Frank Anim is the CEO and Lead Consultant for Discovery Leadership Consulting Ltd and a Member for Harvard Business Review Advisory Council.
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