Climate change tends to negatively affect the energy sector globally. Fossil fuel energy production has been accepted
globally by scientist and the public as a major contributor to climate change. However, the impact of precipitation
variations and increasing temperatures on major energy (electricity) production in developing countries are
underestimated. The annual growth in the demand for biomass, electricity, and petroleum products estimated at 3%,
6 – 7% and 5% per annum respectively calls for an assessment of its CO2 emissions and contribution to global
warming and the place of energy sector strategy and development plan in reducing these emissions as well as
meeting energy demand for economic development. The nations total energy consumption of 8162.6 KTOE in 2012
emitted 30.71 Million tonnes of CO2. Ghana’s Energy Sector vision of achieving access to modern energy forms by
2020 will cut down CO2 emissions from Biomass by 20% which is approximately 6.14 Million tonnes with 16% (˜0.8
Million tonnes of CO2) and 7.5% (˜0.8 Million tonnes of CO2) increase in electricity and petroleum products
respectively. These strategies and development plans are however vulnerable to climate change due to the high
dependence on hydropower energy generation and high cost of renewable energy in Ghana.