In August 2014, after a series of articles in the Guyanese media about Chinese company Bai Shan Lin’s logging operations, a Guyanese PhD student wrote to the Norwegian government with a simple question: Is the Low Carbon Development Strategy just a sham?
Category: Guyana
Why did Norway agree to pay US$40 million just before Guyana’s election?
On 8 May 2015, the Government of Guyana put out a press release announcing that Norway had agreed a further US$40 million “for maintaining low deforestation rates and improving forest governance”.
Norway hands over US$80 million to increase deforestation in Guyana
Norway has transferred US$80 million to the Inter-American Development Bank as part of the Norway-Guyana US$250 million REDD deal. Perhaps surprisingly, if Guyana spends the money it will involve the destruction of a large area of rainforest.
The Amazon is losing its capacity to absorb carbon. Or, why we can’t rely on forests to solve climate change
A paper published this week in Nature concludes that the Amazon is losing its capacity to absorb carbon. In the past decade, the carbon absorbed by the Amazon each year has decreased by about one-third.
Pinnacle Green Resources’ plans for Guyana: Green development or a land grab?
A company called Pinnacle Green Resources (Guyana) Limited is planning to develop bioenergy plantations and a biomass plant in Guyana. Is this green development? Or a land grab?