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Item The Ghana Energy Sector: Current Challenges and Opportunities and Job Prospects.(University of Ghana, 2020-03-17) Essandoh-Yeddu, J.The development of a country is to a large extent dependent on the optimal development and utilization of its energy resources and the provision of energy services in a reliable, cost-effective and environmentally friendly manner. Recognizing the importance of energy to national development, Past and present governments have been struggling with establishing the most optimal administrative infrastructure both soft and hard to execute and implement policies to achieve such an energy vision. The Energy Sector since its formal establishment has come up with a number of policies to promote the sector as well as addressing the challenges. These include the Power Sector Reform in the 1990s to help attract private investment into the power subsector value chain; the 2001 Energy Policy which focused on poverty alleviation and economic growth; and the 2010 Energy Policy necessitated largely by the discovery of oil in substantial commercial quantities in 2007 and which provided the initial framework for the development and utilization of indigenous oil and gas resources in the country. There have been significant changes in the national and global energy landscape. The country had also undergone years of frequent power outages and planned power rationing across the country in the past, and the severest and longest occurred from 2013-2015, leading to reduced workforce productivity, unreliable supply of electricity, relatively high electricity tariff compared to the last decade culminating in the high cost of doing business, etc. These have compelled recent and present governments to come up with restructuring of the sector on a number of occasions. The presentation is a discourse on the entire Energy Sector and the challenges since the immediate colonial era to what prevails today. It will also touch on the potential opportunities for the country and job prospects in the sector.Item Intellectual Property Right and Scientific Research in Ghana(University of Ghana, 2020-03-03) Abaidoo, C.Science research and Innovation are key to national development especially in an era of expanding global market and the growth of knowledge based resources. In Africa, one of the underlying setbacks for our development is the slow pace of innovation and technology development. However, exploitation of the Intellectual Property Right (IPR) system presents one of the greatest opportunities for scientists and researchers to create wealth for themselves and contribute to the innovation eco-system. This paper, therefore, seeks to expose the participants to IPR creation and management with emphasis on patenting and utility modelsItem Climate Change Issues: where we have come from and where we are going(2020-02-18) Klutse, N.A.B.The earth is warming at a steady pace and is having a devastating impact on the earth’s climate. Climate change is mostly natural. However, clear evidence exists that the rate of the occurrence of the changes we are experiencing in the climate and the intensity of the impacts are closely related to human activity. We understand the reason for this is the increase in human-caused greenhouse gases causing more warming of the earth's climate. How much have humans contributed to the greenhouse gases and what is the contribution of humans to climate change is still a global discussion. The presentation will focus on what climate change is, where we have come from and where we are going with the level of human influence. A debate on whether climate change mitigation is a moral or political issue will also be opened.