The Managing Director of Access Bank Ghana, Mr. Dolapo Ogundimu has joined calls by leading environmental specialists and horticulturists for Ghanaians to pay better attention to the environment.
In a statement read on his behalf by Mrs Joana Bannerman, Group Head for Commercial Banking, he added that ?A complete attitudinal change towards the environment is what we all need to transform our environmental landscape. Let us all preserve Ghana?s environment by joining hands to sustain and endorse garden and flower cultivation.?
Whilst recognizing the good work that people in the industry are doing in building a conducive and safe environment, Mr. Ogundimu noted that Access Bank had own its own, stepped up its ?Going Green Initiative? in line with the Bank?s Environmental and Social Risk Policy.
Detailing some of the initiatives that Access Bank was implementing as part of its Going Green drive, the MD revealed that the Bank was investing in digital solutions to reduce paper work through automation and electronic modification, storage and retrieval of documents. The most recent of such solutions is the introduction of its Slip-Free banking which is expected to reduce cumbersome paperwork in the banking hall, thus helping customers to save time when transacting business.
According to Mr. Ogundimu, the Paperless Office Project is helping the Bank to track, report and manage its environmental footprint performance.
The annual show organised by Stratcomm Africa and sponsored by the Bank for the past three years, seeks to create awareness among Ghanaians about the Commercial, Aesthetic and Psychological benefits of Horticulture and Floriculture. It seeks to celebrate Ghana?s unique flora and fauna, whilst pointing people to the income generating and job creation opportunities inherent in them.
Highlighting the purpose of the Garden and Flower show, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Stratcomm Africa, Ms Esther A. N. Cobbah, asked the public to take advantage of the many opportunities in the horticulture industry to create an alternative income generating venture. She said the exhibition was a forum for the participants to reflect on their individual roles in making the environment beautiful by planting more trees.
Held from September 10 to 14, 2015 on the theme ?The World is your Garden?, the show brought together many exhibitors and experts in the industry from within Ghana, Kenya, Denmark and Netherlands among others. Activities that marked the event included a Conference, Adult and kid?s workshops, Fashion extravaganza, unusual garden, Party in the park, Jazz night and a Farmers? market.
The event was attended by policy makers and government officials, academia in the agriculture sector, business community, florists and horticulturists, botanists, home owners, estate developers, garden and flower lovers among other groups.
Access Bank in line with its Environmental and Social Risk Policy, has over the past few years stepped up its ?Going Green Initiative? by instituting initiatives that are aimed at improving and impacting on biodiversity, deforestation, air and water pollution.
Source : newsghana.com.gh
