Guyana-Norway forest partnership…
Three years into the five-year forest protection partnership with Norway, an ‘opt-in’ mechanism for forested Amerindian communities is still to be finalized but discussions are continuing.
A release from the Government Information Agency (GINA) said that last week the Office of Climate Change and the National Toshaos Council (NTC) continued discussions on the opt-in mechanism concept paper among other areas of mutual interest for the implementation of Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS).
GINA said that Presidential Adviser and Head of the Office of Climate Change Shyam Nokta told the NTC delegation, including the NTC Chairman Toshao Derick John, that a