Guyana and Norway to protect rain forests

Citation

(2010), "Guyana and Norway to protect rain forests", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 21 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2010.08321bab.001

Guyana and Norway to protect rain forests

Article Type: News From: Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Volume 21, Issue 2

Guyana and Norway have entered into partnership to protect Guyana’s tropical forests. Under the partnership, Norway will provide financial support to Guyana at a level based on Guyana’s success in limiting emissions.

President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana and Norway’s Minister of the Environment and International Development Erik Solheim have signed a Memorandum of Understanding declaring the two countries’ determination to work together to provide the world with a working example of how partnerships between developed and developing countries can save the world’s tropical forests.

Under the partnership, Guyana will accelerate its efforts to limit forest-based greenhouse gas emissions, and protect its rich rainforest as an asset for the world. Norway will provide financial support to Guyana at a level based on Guyana’s success in limiting emissions. This will enable Guyana to start implementing its low carbon development strategy (LCDS) at scale. In the words of President Jagdeo, “We want to avoid the high-carbon development trajectory that today’s developed world followed.