EXHIBITION

This exhibition, which is available to loan free of charge, illustrates what our consumption of resources has to do with Ghana.

The friendship between the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the West African Republic of Ghana goes back decades.

The ‘Ecological Footprint’ highlights the stark difference in resource consumption between Ghana and Germany.

Although Ghana is the world’s tenth-largest gold producer, it actually earns very little from the precious metal.

Despite aluminium having many positive properties, extracting this light metal consumes a lot of energy and is having a huge environmental impact in Ghana.

Only a third of Europe’s waste electrical and electronic equipment is recycled efficiently and in an environmentally sustainable way. The rest follows various paths to disappearance.

Population growth and changes in consumer behaviour are producing an increasingly large, increasingly complex mountain of waste in Ghana too.

What can we do to conserve natural resources?

Ghana and NRW are linked by a highly diverse partnership – featuring GIZ projects in the fields of climate change mitigation and resource conservation, the circular economy and renewable energy right through to support for start-up ecosystems and the export potential of Ghanaian companies.

An overview of creative initiatives from NRW that are encouraging.