
LADOL MD Speaks at the Ehingbeti Lagos Economic Summit 2021:
The Managing Director of LADOL Free Zone, Dr. Amy Jadesimi, has stated that Lagos State can take a share of a new USD 12 trillion market by creating a level playing field that enables private sector companies to compete and grow sustainable businesses. Almost all the new jobs the world needs, 680 million, will be created by the private sector, particularly SMEs- the most profitably of these growing companies will be those that embrace sustainable business plans and targets.
Dr. Jadesimi made her remarks today at the Ehingbeti Lagos Economic Summit 2021, in a panel season tagged “Mainstreaming Sustainability in Governance and Business”.
Other members of the panels were Mr. Young David, MD & Senior Partner, BCG; Dr. Gloria Udoh, Social Performance Manager, Shell; Dr. Chioma Nwachuku, GM External Affairs and Communication, Director AGPC (Anoh Gas Processing Company) Seplat; Mrs Titilola Alabi, Sustainability & Public Affairs Manager, Diageo Nigeria.
“To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, we have to embrace the fact that private sector is going to be the driver. In a country like Nigeria and in state like Lagos it is the private sector, large or small that is going to be critical. There is a great opportunity for low income, high growth countries like Nigeria to correct our market failures by enabling our private sector to adopt sustainable business models. Lagos State can go a step further and push faster implementation and growth of companies in the state by working with organisations such as the UNDP. UNDP has recently launched its SDG Impact Standards to support funds in driving capital to where it is needed most. UNDPâÂÂs suite of impact standards will help make sustainable businesses bankable, based on a market case and give them greater access to funding.
The Nigerian private sector has proven itself to be hard working and resilient, with a level playing field and wide acceptance of Impact standards, as criteria for funding, the private sector can soar.”
Dr. Jadesimi was a Commissioner on the Business and Sustainable development Commission that produced the 2017 report, “Better Business Better World”. The report identified 60 biggest market opportunities related to delivering the Global Goals, in four verticals of Food & Agriculture; Cities; Energy & Materials; Health & Well-Being. The Commission’s work showed how achieving the Global Goals opens up an economic prize of at least US$12 trillion by 2030 for the private sector and potentially 2-3 times more. Well over 50 percent of the prize is located in high growth, low income countries. Achieving the Global Goals in these four economic verticals could create 380 million new jobs by 2030, almost 90 percent of them in developing countries. One market hot spot, affordable housing, accounts for almost one fifth (70 million) of these jobs. Pricing in environmental costs such as climate change increases the âÂÂrealâ size of the prize by a further 40 percent. This report is now ubiquitously associated with the case for sustainable business. In short companies with a sustainable business model will be the most profitable and competitive, those without one will likely fall out of the market.
Lagos is already a powerhouse for Africa – by driving sustainable private entrepreneurship and commerce, creating a level playing field and adopting impact standards such as those produced by the UNDP â Lagos could shortly be transformed into a powerhouse for the world.
Feb 18th, 2021
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