Low Carbon Development Strategy

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Money from trees: What of Indigenous people and their rights? And do they benefit from the carbon trade? By Neil Marks [email protected] After years of campaigning by Guyana and other forest-rich nations, there is finally a mechanism to value the carbon dioxide stored in trees and to pay countries whic…

Guyana-Suriname collaboration on climate change and REDD+

Guyana is a founding member - as Global Green Growth Institute starts its conversion to an international organisation.

Six heads of government including Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Guyana’s President Donald Ramotar, Kiribati President Anote Tong and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi delivered welcoming and congratulatory remarks. Also, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg were present at the signing ceremony.

The purpose of the Signing Ceremony was to prepare the legal framework for GGGI’s conversion into an international organization. The signatories will become the founding members of GGGI when it launches as a new international organization in October, this year.

President tells Rio to look out for regressive forces to sustainable development

President Donald Ramotar told participants of the recently concluded Rio+20 conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to be on the alert for regressive forces in every country that are opposed to sustainable development.

Speaking at a side event on day one of the Rio summit titled “Towards Sustainable Development: Guyana’s Story”, the Guyanese Head of State sought to illustrate that sustainable development is not universally accepted.

President Ramotar withheld dragging Guyana’s internal politics into the international arena but painted a general picture of the scenario.

It was also deemed a drastic move when the $18.3B allocation to Guyana’s revolutionary (LCDS) was cut and the indigenous peoples were saddened by the development, cognizant that the land titling in hinterland communities would be shattered.

Guyana’s LCDS championed as effective model at Rio+20 side event

President Donald Ramotar has told leaders and key players in the environmental arena attending a side event at the Rio+20 conference currently underway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil that there is consonance between Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) efforts and the theme of the side event “Green economy and inclusive growth for a sustainable future.”

President Ramotar identified the need to reconcile two global forces that have traditionally been seen as incompatible – protecting the environment and economic development, as a critical challenge that must be overcome by the global community.

In partnership with Norway, Guyana has been implementing an Interim REDD+ arrangement through which the country has already earned about US$70 Million in performance based payments from avoided deforestation and under which the country can earn up to US$ 250 Million by 2015.

These initiatives will catalyse the rapid transformation we seek and help to move Guyana to a low deforestation, low carbon, climate resilient economy…Already, the topic of the Green Economy has generated much debate in the negotiations leading up to Rio+20 and over the next few days here in Rio, this will be the subject of intense discussions and debates to look at where we should be going as a global community; to identify how we could get there, and the collective and individual responsibilities and the targets we should set.

As a global community we cannot continue with the business as usual approach or we will head down a path of global catastrophe. The situation requires global leadership, political will and commitment. At the same time, this has to be complimented by home grown solutions and initiatives because at the end of the day, it is collectively local action that will make a global difference

World Environment Day 2012: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."