City Hall’s hope of tapping the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF) to support environmental management within the city is unlikely to be fulfilled anytime soon, according to Governance Minister Raphael Trotman, who has oversight of the management of the nation’s natural resources.
Last week Monday, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) of Georgetown at its statutory meeting made public its desire to access a portion of the fund.
Town Clerk Royston King had explained to Stabroek News that as the council moves to implement a carefully managed urban forestry programme, it will be contributing to the scrubbing of the atmosphere and keeping the country’s carbon footprint down. This project as well as the “greening” of municipal buildings through the use of