
GUYANA'S
LOW
CARBON
DEVELOPMENT
STRATEGY 2030
A New Low-Carbon Economy

A New Low-Carbon Economy
The LCDS 2030 has been produced after a seven month national consultation on an initial draft, and sets out how Guyana can stay true to the vision set out in 2009.
LCDS 2030 chapters
“The LCDS is a framework intended to map the path of a new growth trajectory in a non-polluting way. Tropical forest countries have long called for the ecosystem services provided by the world’s standing tropical forests to be properly valued, through both public and private finance. This will enable people who live in forests and forest countries to create jobs and economic opportunity from an economy that works with nature, instead of today’s reality where forests are often worth more dead than alive.” — Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, President of Guyana (2009).
This LCDS 2030 has been produced after a seven month national consultation on an
initial draft, and sets out how Guyana can stay true to the vision set out in 2009. The
country can create a model for avoiding deforestation and maintaining forests, while
at the same time growing the economy five-fold over 10 years and keeping energy
emissions flat; investing in urban, rural and Amerindian development; protecting the
coast and hinterland from climate change; creating jobs in a suite of low carbon sectors;
aligning the education and health sectors with low carbon development, and integrating
Guyana’s economy with its neighbours.
The document comprises eight chapters:
Building blocks for the new low-carbon economy: forest climate services, biodiversity, water management and the Ocean Economy
How forest climate services can be evolved because of the capabilities Guyana has built, and the potential of integrating with the emerging voluntary carbon markets
Section of Guyana’s new LCDS Investment Programme focussed on the low-carbon energy transition
Section of Guyana’s new LCDS Investment Programme to develop Guyana’s human, financial and physical capital
Addressing Guyana’s climate adaptation and resilience.
Addressing sustainable management of the oil and gas industry
Sets out the plans for the oversight of this LCDS by a national consultation, the National Assembly and the Multi-Stakeholder Steering Committee.
Sets out the plans for the oversight of this LCDS by a national consultation, the National Assembly and the Multi-Stakeholder Steering Committee.
After seven months of National Consultation, this LCDS 2030 sets the direction of travel for Guyana’s economic development. Feedback received through the consultation has been incorporated and the document is to be tabled in the National Assembly. New opportunities for development can be unlocked where Guyana earns new revenues from the sale of carbon credits.
Twelve years of engagement and projects implementation
The LCDS is a framework intended to map the path of a new growth trajectory in a non-polluting way.
The framework for taking the Norway-Guyana cooperation forward to enable the acceleration of Guyana’s REDD-plus efforts, based on the results of which Norway will start providing financial support.
read: Joint Concept Note
Overarching framework regarding issues related to the fight against climate change, in particular those concerning reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD-plus), the protection of biodiversity, and enhancement of sustainable, low carbon development.
read: MOU
The terms of the multi-contributor trust fund between the Trustee and the Contributor established for the financing of activities undertaken as part of the Government of Guyana’s LCDS.
The operating principles, guidelines and procedures for the day-to-day operations of the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund.
The Amerindian Development Fund was established to provide funding to support the socio-economic development of Amerindian communities and villages, through the implementation of their Community Development Plans.
read: https://guyanareddfund.org/index.php/grif-projects/amerindian-development-fund
This project enhanced the national institutional capacity in Guyana to address the impacts of climate change through the effective implementation of the LCDS, and assisted Guyana in meeting its commitments under interim REDD+ sustainable forest management partnerships.
read: https://guyanareddfund.org/index.php/grif-projects/institutional-strengthening
This project addressed two of the major bottlenecks that constrained the development of Micro and Small Enterprise Development and the ability of vulnerable groups to build alternative livelihoods in Guyana, which were: i) limited access to finance and ii) limited technical and business skills.
read: https://guyanareddfund.org/index.php/grif-projects/small-and-micro-enterprise-development
This project seeks to enable Amerindians to secure their lands and natural resources with a view towards sustainable social and economic development.
read: https://guyanareddfund.org/index.php/grif-projects/amerindian-land-titling
The Amerindian Development Fund was established to provide funding to support the socio-economic development of Amerindian communities and villages, through the implementation of their Community Development Plans.
read: https://guyanareddfund.org/index.php/grif-projects/amerindian-development-fund
This project involved the widening of the canal, the rehabilitation of the former outlet structure, rerouting the canal to re-establish its original alignment and construction of a bridge on the East Bank of Demerara Public Road where the canal intercepts the road.
read: https://guyanareddfund.org/index.php/grif-projects/cunha-canal
The objective of this project is to provide Information & Communications Technology (ICT) access and electronic services to hinterland, poor and remote communities throughout Guyana.
read: https://guyanareddfund.org/index.php/grif-projects/ict-access-and-e-services
ongoing The project aims to engender productive use of especially deforested and degraded lands by transforming current land management practices in Guyana to ensure sustainability in land management systems and streamline provision of land services to land-users and decision-makers, to foster long-term economic, social and environmental development in the country.
read: https://guyanareddfund.org/index.php/grif-projects/sustainable-land-management-and-development
This project responded and articulated the increasing demand for methodological and analytical support for the development of a long-term platform by illustrating strategies and the necessary policies that ensured the enabling conditions for Guyana’s transition to a green economy, and achieving the ultimate goal of sustainable development.
read: https://guyanareddfund.org/index.php/grif-projects/guyana-green-state-development-strategy
This draft of the LCDS is the basis for a national consultation to gather input and ideas from all Guyanese.
The draft LCDS would be under public consultation:
Read the summary the MSSC meetings:
Total Amount Available for Investment in LCDS: USD $220,800,000
Total Financing Received from Norway: USD $212,597,518
Investment Income: USD $8,300,000
Guyana’s Revised draft Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) 2021-2027 (Paris Agreement of the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change) Public Release for Comment and Feedback
Over the last few weeks, the Amerindian Peoples Association and one former Toshao, issued several Op Eds and Statements, many of which were carried in
GOVERNMENT OF GUYANA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) 2030 Advancing Guyana’s Development and Global Climate Leadership In 2007,
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