Over the past two weeks, a series of articles has appeared in the Kaieteur News about Chinese logging company Bai Shan Lin’s operations in Guyana. The articles accuse Bai Shan Lin of operating illegally. The Guyana Forestry Commission responds that “there is no circumventing of Guyana’s logging laws by Bai Shan Lin”.
Category: Norway
Guyana has made no changes to policy, strategy, laws, regulations or procedures concerning forestry or mining
A recent report by the Union of Concerned Scientists highlights countries that have successfully reduced their rate of deforestation. In a post last week, I pointed out that the analysis deeply flawed.
A debate on REDD in Guyana
In mid-February 2014, Nancy Birdsall and Jonah Busch, of the Center for Global Development, visited Georgetown in Guyana. Their visit was part of CGD project looking at how well performance-based payments for forest conservation are working in Guyana, Brazil and Indonesia.
“In the field of international climate policy and collaboration, REDD+ is a success” says Per Fredrik Pharo, Director of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative
In March 2014, I wrote an opinion piece for the magazine Development Today. I asked whether Norway’s REDD deals are reducing deforestation. The article has triggered a small discussion.
Norway’s REDD deal has “triggered promising reformation processes” in Indonesia, say Rainforest Foundation Norway and AMAN
Earlier this month, I wrote an article for Development Today, in which I asked whether Norway’s rainforest billions have had any influence on rates of deforestation in either Brazil or Indonesia.