Green Economy

A Low-Carbon Development Strategy for Guyana: Transforming Guyana’s Economy While Combating Climate Change. 2009 (Draft Report)

The Government of Guyana, on Monday 8th June 2009, at the Guyana International
Convention Cenrtre, launched Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy.
The Strategy provides the broad framework of Guyana’s response to climate change
 and will hinge, in particular on Guyana deploying its forests to mitigate global
 climate change. It builds on work done in the last year which culminated in the
launch in December 2008 of  Guyana’s Position on Avoided Deforestation which
 essentially serves as the model for the Strategy’s development.

The key focus areas of the strategy are investments in low carbon economic
infrastructure; investments in high‐potential low‐carbon sectors; expanding access
 to services and  new economic opportunities for indigenous and forest communities
 and transforming the village economy as well as improving social services and
economic opportunities for the wider Guyanese population; and investments in
 climate change adaptation infrastructure......
source: Government of Guyana

Climate Change

Understanding of Climate Change 
Guyana is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change for many reasons. Approximately 90% of the country’s population resides on the Coastal Plain which  lies approximately 0.5 to 1 metre below mean sea level.
source: Office of Climate Change, Guyana

Saving The World's Forests Today

Creating Incentives to Avoid Deforestation. 2008
Without a significant slowing of deforestation in tropical countries, stabilizing  greenhouse gas concentrations and reducing the risk of catastrophic climate change will be virtually impossible. Recently, important progress has been made  to consider including Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) under the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change, and in doing so,  to provide incentives to slow emissions from destruction of tropical forests.......
source: Government of Guyana

Guyana Tapped for Readiness Mechanism of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility

September 9, 2009. - Climate change is a top priority for Guyana. President Bharrat Jagdeo announced his willingness to place the country’s pristine rainforest under international long-term protection if the right market-based incentives are created by the international community.
Source: World Bank