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Local organisations secure funding for marine projects
In a significant development for the local marine sector, the British High Commission has awarded grants to two environmental conservation organisations in Guyana. The grants were awarded to the Guyana Marine Conservation Society and the…
COP28: Disappointment for Guyana as carbon market talks fail to advance
By Vishani Ragobeer
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Dubai was at the centre of global conversations and negotiations on the climate crisis with this year’s United Nations climate change conference, COP28, hosted there.
A major agreement to…
COP28: The ‘beginning of the end’ for fossil fuels?
By Vishani Ragobeer
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This year’s global climate talks, COP28, came to an end on Wednesday with countries agreeing to gradually stop using harmful fossil fuels, though some believe this agreement is not enough to help…
Guyana’s Indigenous peoples reject Venezuela’s land grab plans
By Vishani Ragobeer in Dubai
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro wants to expand mining in the forest-rich Essequibo area of Guyana that his country claims and has now incorporated into its official map but…
Pradeepa Bholanath: Guyana’s lead climate negotiator
By Vishani Ragobeer in Dubai
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Guyana is making a lot of noise internationally, hoping to convince more people that trees should be saved and there should be a dollar value attached to keeping forests intact.
The…
COP28: Guyana argues that payments to save animals, plants in its forests are also needed
By Vishani Ragobeer in Dubai
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When a group of researchers stumbled upon an “exuberantly- coloured snake” in Warapoka in July, 2022, they knew what it was, but it was the first time they, or anyone else, had seen it…
Commonwealth: Guyana to champion action on forest, biodiversity
Guyana will champion the Commonwealth Living Lands Action Group on sustainable green cover and biodiversity, committing itself to lead coordinated efforts across the 56 Commonwealth member countries.
The announcement comes after a…
COP28: Suriname, like Guyana, says its vast forests will be protected as oil sector develops
By Vishani Ragobeer in Dubai
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At the northern edge of the South American continent sit two countries, Guyana and Suriname, with vast forest covers and nascent oil and gas sectors. As world leaders meet in Dubai to…
Opinion: Carbon credits are benefitting Guyana
By Melena Pollard, Toshao of Rivers' View
If you boarded a boat in Bartica and crossed the Essequibo River, after only five minutes you would arrive in Rivers' View—my home in Guyana. With a sandy coastline and dense, tropical forest,…
COP28: Guyana champions its low carbon strategy as an int’l development model
By Vishani Ragobeer in Dubai
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Why should anyone pay attention to Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy, or the LCDS?
That was the question President Dr. Irfaan Ali, Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo and other…