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COP28: Guyana champions its low carbon strategy as an int’l development model
By Vishani Ragobeer in Dubai
vishani@newsroom.gy
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…
At COP28, is the ‘climate’ right to talk about Guyana’s border controversy?
By Vishani Ragobeer in Dubai
vishani@newsroom.gy
About 70,000 people have landed in Dubai for this year’s annual United Nations climate summit, COP28. Though various players have their own ambitions and interests to fight for, Guyana…
President, Vice President in Dubai for Climate Summit. Why?
By Neil Marks in Dubai
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President Irfaan Ali and Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo are among leaders who have arrived in Dubai for the annual climate summit of the United Nations.
Why are they here? It can’t be because…
What is COP28 and why is Guyana making a big deal of it?
By Vishani Ragobeer
Vishani@newsroom.gy
Guyana will be represented at the upcoming 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) in Dubai and the country won’t just be an ordinary participant…
U.S. investing millions to help Caribbean fight impacts of Climate Change
Guyana is among Caribbean countries to benefit from a multi-million-dollar initiative by the United States Government to help its response to the devastating effects of Climate Change.
Through the U.S.-Caribbean Partnership to Address…
Washed away: People who help protect the turtles losing their home
By Vishani Ragobeer
Vishani@newsroom.gy
Almond Beach is an Indigenous community and one of 10 beaches found along the 75-mile-long Shell Beach Protected Area in Region One (Barima-Waini).
Every year, you can find four endangered…
Pink River Dolphins found in Rupununi
The Manari Ranch, Field Museum Chicago, and local field biologists, supported by WWF, conducted the first environmental DNA (eDNA) survey to assess the extent of the pink river dolphin in southern Guyana. The first-of-a-kind research on…
Guyana wants to partner with Costa Rica on forests, food & energy security
President Dr. Irfaan Ali expressed Guyana’s interest in collaborating with Costa Rica on the protection of forests and promoting both food and energy security in the region.
Dr. Ali met Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves Robles on…
Guyana secures more support for its ambitious forest-saving plans
By Vishani Ragobeer
vishani@newsroom.gy
Prolific oil finds offshore Guyana have made the tiny country, located on the northern edge of South America, the talk of the town. With all eyes on Guyana now, the country hopes to bring global…
Money from trees: What of Indigenous people and their rights? And do they benefit from the carbon…
By Neil Marks
neil@newsroom.gy
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 which have kept their forests standing.…