BY: VISHANI RAGOBEER Vishani@newsroom.gy Guyana is pursuing several ambitious goals at once. The country wants to lower the exorbitant cost of energy, gradually divorce itself from using harmful fossil fuels and still remain one of the earth’s few net carbon ...
Immaculata Casimero, a Wapichan indigenous woman from Guyana, says her people have been advocating their land rights for more than 50 years. As global leaders pledge to save trees at COP26 in Glasgow, she argues land rights are even more ...
“Forest-rich countries must be provided with the incentives necessary to keep their forests intact and to reduce deforestation and forest degradation,” Guyana’s President Dr. Irfaan Ali stated during his address. ...
Low-lying states vulnerable to rising sea levels face a death sentence if adequate efforts are not made to slow global warming. ...
Guyana’s leaders argue the country can still be a net zero carbon emitter, meaning that the harmful gases released into the atmosphere by oil and other sectors can be balanced out by the harmful gases which its tress suck in. ...