Guyana's Low Carbon Development Strategy

The Office of Climate Change (OCC) and Project Management Office (PMO), within the Office of the President are currently working towards moving forward with activities as part of Guyana’s climate initiatives and the LCDS.

Multilateral Engagements

At the multilateral level Guyana has been an active participant and advocate in the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change negotiations participating at the recently held Conference of the Parties Meeting in Durban last December which produced some positive outcomes, including an agreement in principle for a second commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol, albeit with a reduced number of participants; the establishment of a process to achieve a legal global agreement on climate change that includes all Parties (the Durban Platform); the establishment of the Green Climate Fund, and a decision on REDD Plus financing options. Agreement was also reached on the establishment of the Adaptation mechanism and Technology Transfer mechanism.

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PRESS RELEASE 23/01/2012

Under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Norway, the Government of Guyana is obligated to establish a system of Independent Forest Monitoring (IFM) to allow for the development of a mechanism to assess legality in the forest sector. The report attached below presents the findings of an independent assessment of legality in the forestry sector, conducted by a team of specialists from the GFA Consulting Group Sociedad Anónima (S.A.), aimed at evaulating the Guyana’s forest monitoring system.

An audit of forest monitoring in Guyana is scheduled for July 2012.

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Independent Forest Monitoring in Guyana - Scoping Report - December 16 2011

The Seventeenth Session of the Conference of the Parties and the Seventh Session of the Conference of Parties Serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP 7/ CMP 7) was held in Durban, South Africa for the period November 28 - December 9, 2011.  The Conference concluded on December 11, two days later than scheduled., indicative of the intense, polarizing negotiations.

St. Stanislaus College in Georgetown emerged Champions of the first ever Climate Change-LCDS Secondary Schools Quiz which was broadcast on NCN for the past three weeks. The Quiz was organized by the Office for Climate Change in the Office of the President in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and NCN. It featured sixteen secondary schools drawn from all ten regions of Guyana with veteran broadcaster and Quizmaster Dr. Rovin Deodat presiding.