Published: June 5, 2021 • World Environment Day 2021
Restoration can be designed to rehabilitate freshwater ecosystems, or achieve partial goals such as improve biodiversity, water quality, ecosystem services, ecological integrity and functionality, and/or key ecosystem taxa.
The Green Economy concept remains attractive for a country like Guyana [that has] vast renewable energy resources potential.
The challenge is to access compensation … for aligning Guyana’s economic growth along a low carbon trajectory (outlined in the LCDS), and in so doing, mitigate the principal drivers of deforestation that lie outside the forest sector.
Achieving solutions would not be easy, but they are imperative to improving energy security and averting further harm to the environment, while simultaneously ensuring development.
Improvement in human well-being, whether called sustainable development or green economy, is to all our benefits.
