Guyana’s national oil and gas development strategy
GUYANA has long been one of the few nations in the world to support actual national and international policymaking to strike a balance between ambitious climate action and citizens’ reasonable desires for prosperity. Guyana introduced its Low Carbon Development Plan in 2008, marking the first time a developing nation has done so. President Ali presented […]
Roles of women, girls, and youths in Guyana’s LCDS 2030 and gender equality
THE gender component of the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) acknowledges the various effects that weather-related events and climate change have on both men and women. It is well established from Guyana’s experience with droughts and floods over the past 20 years, in particular, that women are disproportionately affected by the immediate and long-term effects […]
Implementing a market framework for forest climate services
TO push for a practical market mechanism, Guyana has advocated, since 2009, in the first Low Carbon Development Strategy, that a market-based mechanism represented the next stage of Guyana’s work on climate finance. This ambition has seen steady movement over the years, including the level of the United Nations. One example of this is Guyana […]
Impressive biodiversity defines Guyana’s vast forest ecosystem
By Cindy Parkinson BIODIVERSITY, also known as biological diversity, is the number, variety, and variability of living organisms within a certain terrestrial, aquatic, or marine habitat. Ecosystems at all scales, from the local to the global, depend on biodiversity as a key component and structural component. Through the services it offers, biodiversity affects human well-being. […]
Impressive biodiversity defines Guyana’s vast forest ecosystem
By Cindy Parkinson BIODIVERSITY, also known as biological diversity, is the number, variety, and variability of living organisms within a certain terrestrial, aquatic, or marine habitat. Ecosystems at all scales, from the local to the global, depend on biodiversity as a key component and structural component. Through the services it offers, biodiversity affects human well-being. […]
Low-input mining and sustainable forestry
GUYANA has one of the lowest, if not the lowest, rates of deforestation in the world, making its forests essential resources in the worldwide fight against climate change. The vast forests of Guyana’s territory provide a variety of important ecosystem services aside from those related to carbon and climate. Mining and forestry are significant sectors […]
Guyana: world’s first jurisdictional, REDD+forestry carbon credit recipient
GUYANA has been issued $33.47 million in forest carbon credits from the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART), The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard, (TREES) for the five years between 2016 and 2020, after the conclusion of an independent validation and verification process and approval by the ART Board. These serialized credits are available to buyers on […]
The journey of Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy
THE Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) for Guyana is a framework meant to reshape society to pursue low-carbon development while also attempting to maintain Guyana’s high forest cover. Guyana’s LCDS is, therefore, a work in progress, developing a model that outlines Guyana’s viewpoint on how a platform for co-operation can be created in which developing […]