Before the World Bank’s Carbon Fund meeting last month, the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) wrote to the participants of the meeting, expressing concerns about Guyana’s proposal to the Carbon Fund.
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“Bai Shan Lin has most certainly contravened laws, regulations and approved policies of Guyana”
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?
The Amazon is losing its capacity to absorb carbon. Or, why we can’t rely on forests to solve climate change
By Chris Lang 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?
Nine months later… A response from the Guyana Forestry Commission to critiques of its Annual Reports, 2005-2012
Late in 2013, the Guyana Forestry Commission released a series of annual reports from 2005 to 2012. The oldest of these reports was already eight years old.