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Updated low carbon strategy to be released soon
http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/stories/11/16/updated-low-carbon-strategy-to-be-released-soon/
By Stabroek staff November 16, 2009 in Local News
An upgraded LCDS document which will integrate views from the recently held national consultation and the agreement signed between Guyana and Norway will be released within two weeks.
According to a press release from the Office of Climate Change, Norway has “committed to paying Guyana for forest climate services to the value of up to a quarter of a billion (US) dollars by 2015.” This commitment is the second largest in history, made to a single country’s efforts to combat deforestation.
The new Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) document will be released before the Copenhagen meeting of the United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC) where it is expected to receive considerable international attention. Prior to that meeting President Bharrat Jagdeo is expected to meet with other world leaders in London, Manaus and Port of Spain, then he will lead Guyana’s delegation in Copenhagen. Chairperson of the National Toshao Council Yvonne Pearson will also be attending the UNFCCC meeting.
The president has said that Guyana is now in a position to provide other countries with a model but they may only be interested if they were confident of the predictability of payments for the climate services they provide. “In Guyana, we are starting the process of re-orienting our entire economy. Countries cannot be expected to do something so significant without reliable support from international partners,” Jagdeo said. He also said if the world was serious about curbing deforestation, people need to realise that solutions are doable and affordable “But they also need to know that success will not be achieved through outdated aid modalities.” Jagdeo added that providing climate change services is far more comparable to a business transaction between equal partners where one party has a service that the other should pay for based on exacting performance metrics.
The MoU between Guyana and Norway expresses “a willingness to work together to provide the world with a relevant, replicable model for how REDD-plus can align the development objectives of forest countries with the world’s need to combat climate change,” the release said. Under the agreement Norway will pay Guyana for avoided deforestation relative to an agreed metric. The memorandum is supported by a detailed concept note where the two parties establish a potential way forward on all the issues that have influenced the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD)-plus negotiations to date.
The release said the agreement was informed throughout by the ongoing negotiations within the UNFCCC and the two countries have specifically said that their goal is to work together to secure an effective global climate deal. According to the release the updated LCDS will show how the agreement is the start of a phased approach to integrate Guyana’s climate services into the global economy where ultimately a value is placed on Guyana’s forests that make them more economically valuable alive than dead. The LCDS will outline how this could happen over the next decade and how Norway’s payments will catalyse the start of that process.
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Territorios estos sobre los cuales el gobierno Venezolano en representación de la Nación venezolana se reservo sus derechos sobre los territorios de la Guayana Esequiba en su nota del 26 de mayo de 1966 al reconocerse al nuevo Estado de Guyana .
“...por lo tanto, Venezuela reconoce como territorio del nuevo Estado, el que se sitúa al este de la margen derecha del río Esequibo y reitera ante la comunidad internacional, que se reserva expresamente sus derechos de soberanía territorial sobre la zona que se encuentra en la margen izquierda del precitado río; en consecuencia, el territorio de la Guayana Esequiba sobre el cual Venezuela se reserva expresamente sus derechos soberanos, limita al Este con el nuevo Estado de Guyana, a través de la línea del río Esequibo, tomando éste desde su nacimiento hasta su desembocadura en el Océano Atlántico...”
Updated low carbon strategy to be released soon
http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/stories/11/16/updated-low-carbon-strategy-to-be-released-soon/
By Stabroek staff November 16, 2009 in Local News
An upgraded LCDS document which will integrate views from the recently held national consultation and the agreement signed between Guyana and Norway will be released within two weeks.
According to a press release from the Office of Climate Change, Norway has “committed to paying Guyana for forest climate services to the value of up to a quarter of a billion (US) dollars by 2015.” This commitment is the second largest in history, made to a single country’s efforts to combat deforestation.
The new Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) document will be released before the Copenhagen meeting of the United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC) where it is expected to receive considerable international attention. Prior to that meeting President Bharrat Jagdeo is expected to meet with other world leaders in London, Manaus and Port of Spain, then he will lead Guyana’s delegation in Copenhagen. Chairperson of the National Toshao Council Yvonne Pearson will also be attending the UNFCCC meeting.
The president has said that Guyana is now in a position to provide other countries with a model but they may only be interested if they were confident of the predictability of payments for the climate services they provide. “In Guyana, we are starting the process of re-orienting our entire economy. Countries cannot be expected to do something so significant without reliable support from international partners,” Jagdeo said. He also said if the world was serious about curbing deforestation, people need to realise that solutions are doable and affordable “But they also need to know that success will not be achieved through outdated aid modalities.” Jagdeo added that providing climate change services is far more comparable to a business transaction between equal partners where one party has a service that the other should pay for based on exacting performance metrics.
The MoU between Guyana and Norway expresses “a willingness to work together to provide the world with a relevant, replicable model for how REDD-plus can align the development objectives of forest countries with the world’s need to combat climate change,” the release said. Under the agreement Norway will pay Guyana for avoided deforestation relative to an agreed metric. The memorandum is supported by a detailed concept note where the two parties establish a potential way forward on all the issues that have influenced the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD)-plus negotiations to date.
The release said the agreement was informed throughout by the ongoing negotiations within the UNFCCC and the two countries have specifically said that their goal is to work together to secure an effective global climate deal. According to the release the updated LCDS will show how the agreement is the start of a phased approach to integrate Guyana’s climate services into the global economy where ultimately a value is placed on Guyana’s forests that make them more economically valuable alive than dead. The LCDS will outline how this could happen over the next decade and how Norway’s payments will catalyse the start of that process.
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LCDS moves closer to reality - Over the next three months, Guyana would begin to take steps to make the implementation of the Low C
Guyana and Norway in talks on advancing rainforest MOU - Director of Norway’s Climate and Forest Initiative, Ambassador Hans Brattskar says that recent talks
Jagdeo hails Norway forest deal as ‘our Copenhagen’ - Guyana’s US$250M five-year forest preservation deal with Norway was yesterday hailed as a “watershed
Norway sets basis for forest protection aid to Guyana - Norway is prepared to provide performance-based, “substantial and sustained” compensation for the pr
Nota del editor del blog: Al referenciarse a la República Cooperativa de Guyana se deben de tener en cuenta los 159.500Km2, de territorios ubicados al oeste del río Esequibo conocidos con el nombre de Guayana Esequiba o Zona en Reclamación sujetos al Acuerdo de Ginebra del 17 de febrero de 1966.
Territorios estos sobre los cuales el gobierno Venezolano en representación de la Nación venezolana se reservo sus derechos sobre los territorios de la Guayana Esequiba en su nota del 26 de mayo de 1966 al reconocerse al nuevo Estado de Guyana .
“...por lo tanto, Venezuela reconoce como territorio del nuevo Estado, el que se sitúa al este de la margen derecha del río Esequibo y reitera ante la comunidad internacional, que se reserva expresamente sus derechos de soberanía territorial sobre la zona que se encuentra en la margen izquierda del precitado río; en consecuencia, el territorio de la Guayana Esequiba sobre el cual Venezuela se reserva expresamente sus derechos soberanos, limita al Este con el nuevo Estado de Guyana, a través de la línea del río Esequibo, tomando éste desde su nacimiento hasta su desembocadura en el Océano Atlántico...”
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