Guyana will honour Paris climate pact commitments

President David Granger (right) with Finance Minister Winston Jordan at the conference. (Ministry of the Presidency photo)

President David Granger yesterday committed Guyana to honouring the terms of  the Paris Agreement on climate change and said his government would pursue the establishment of a Green State.

Speaking at the Twenty Second Session of the Conference of Parties of the

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Morocco, Granger said that Guyana demonstrated its commitment to the pact  by becoming the seventeenth state to deposit its instrument of ratification of the Paris Agreement on climate change, to the United Nations.

Amid growing international concern that US President-elect Donald Trump intends to pull his country out of the agreement, Granger listed Guyana’s plans.