Guyana’s expanding oil and gas sector will not affect the country’s environmental credentials, effectively allowing it to maintain its carbon sink status, according to Senior Director for Climate and REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) in the Ministry of Natural Resources Pradeepa Bholanath.
Bholanath, who also heads the Environmental Assessment Board (EAB), made the statement on Wednesday during a seminar on the prospects of carbon capture and storage for Guyana held by the University of Guyana’s Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences’ Department of Environmental Studies.