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Guyana has been selected as one of ten countries of the Participants’ Committee to monitor the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF).This decision was made during the recently held forum hosted in Washington, DC,Wholesale New York Yankees Jerseys, Monday and Tuesday last.Guyana was selected based on the submission of a collaboratively prepared Readiness Plan Idea Note (R-PIN) to the FCPF in March 2008, which outlined Guyana’s responsible stewardship of its 18 million hectares of pristine tropical rainforests; forests which form an integral part of both the Guiana Shield and the Amazon Basin.Last July, President Bharrat Jagdeo had expressed his satisfaction that Guyana is among 14 developing countries recently selected as the first to receive money for combating tropical deforestation and climate change from an initial US$82M partnership among those countries and nine industrialised states.Guyana’s selection to benefit from this facility sees the fulfillment of the President’s initiative on climate change, which aims to derive incentives to reduce deforestation and stipulates that this should be an integral part to any agreement on climate change.The proposed Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) would assist developing countries in their efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and land degradation (REDD).It would have the dual objectives of building capacity for REDD in developing countries,Nike Rams #99 Aaron Donald Royal Blue Alternate Mens Stitched NFL Elite Jersey, and testing a programme of performance-based incentive payments in some pilot countries,Cheap NFL Jerseys, on a relatively small scale,Wholesale Jerseys, in order to set the stage for a much larger system of positive incentives and financing flows in the future.Guyana was represented by Minister of Agriculture with responsibility for Forestry,Wholesale Real Madrid Jerseys, Robert Persaud,Avalanche #9 Matt Duchene Black 2016 All Star Stitched NHL Jersey, and Commissioner of Forestry,Wholesale USA Soccer Jerseys, James Singh.The Minister urged participating member countries for a prompt implementation of the project that emanated from the discussions.Minister Persaud also took the opportunity to highlight Guyana’s position that is rooted in President Jagdeo’s international campaign to emphasize multiple benefits that sustainable managed forests and countries with low rates of deforestation such as Guyana bring to the global community in the context of mitigating climate change.Government has been continuing to put measures in place to ensure sustainable forestry management over the years and this has resulted in the country’s rainforest still being fully intact.President Jagdeo has over the last years been advocating for the country to be compensated for this as developed countries have been contributing mostly to pollution through carbon emissions while developing countries have been facing the brunt of global warming and climate change.The World Bank,Wholesale Golden State Warriors Jerseys, during the last week in July,2014 Olympic Team USA #44 Brooks Orpik White Stitched NHL Jersey, stated that Guyana and 13 other countries have been selected to benefit from the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF). |
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