Advans Environmental & Climate Change Strategy
Vision & Mission
Why?
Developing countries and our MSME clients face rising risks from climate change. Advans is committed to protecting them as a responsible partner in these challenging times
What?
Advans aims to equip clients with the right tools – awareness, education, and financial services – to face climate change risks. By building resilience, they can sustain their businesses and livelihoods for the long term
How?
Advans aims to understand climate change impacts on its operations, integrate these into credit risk assessments, and identify vulnerable clients needing targeted training or services
Objectives
Manage our internal impact
And raise awareness among our teams, making them E&S ambassadors
Manage external impact
And evaluate the impact of climate change on Advans portfolio and its clients
Build resilience of clients
Through awareness and education campaign for our most vulnerable clients to climate change
Develop green products and services
To help strengthen our clients’ resilience in the long term
To increase the resilience of our clients and their business to Urban flooding, we created awareness on urban flooding adaptation measures through flyers and social media campaigns.
Climate Change Awareness Campaign
To understand climate change and become E&S ambassadors, we have raised awareness of our Staff on climate change and its impact on our clients and their business through the Climate Fresk.
Staff Awareness Campaign (Climate Fresk)
Advans Ghana has decided to contribute to the Social Development Goal by planting each year a number of trees equivalent to our yearly A4 paper consumption. Since its launched in 2019, Advans Ghana has planted over 3000 trees.
Tree Planting Exercise
In order to take the most effective measure to reduce our carbon emissions, we conducted an assessment to estimate the amount of greenhouse gasses the company emits each year with an action plan to reduce our carbon footprint.
Carbon Footprint Analysis Done
Partners
British International Investment
Entrepreneurial Development Bank
European Investment Bank
Horus Development Finance
Baastel Development Bank
