Climate change: a growing challenge

Mar 17, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
To effectively deal with climate change, institutions, governance and service activities need to study and understand the science and economics of climate change.
Not many nations have paid attention to the environmental impact of climate change.
The earth’s atmosphere and the environment have been bombarded with widespread and unabated production-based free-riding and abuse.
Today, this bombardment has minimised the resource available for environmental preservation and threatens environmental sustainability.

Countries need to mitigate and adapt to climate change and its effects.
Nations must commit and integrate their efforts and establish institutions which can play an important role in acquiring major climate-change responsibilities of immediate significance to the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Forum on Climate Change (1997). In order to achieve sustainable development, nations must adopt the appropriate policies and measures.

President Bharrat Jagdeo continues to lobby for cooperation among countries to enhance the effectiveness of their policies and measures through sharing knowledge and experience on them.
On March 6, 2009, President Bharrat Jagdeo reiterated Guyana’s position on Avoided Deforestation at the Forest Carbon Finance Summit 2009: Making Forest Carbon Markets Work, on Capitol Hill, Washington DC.
Some issues that were discussed were: How to Make Forest Carbon Compliance Carbon; REDD-iness: Exploring Infrastructure Needs & Legal and Institutional Framework and Ensuring Integrity in Forest Carbon Markets.

The policies of the Kyoto Protocol need to enhance energy efficiency; to protect and decrease greenhouse gases; to promote sustainable forms of agriculture; to develop and use new and renewable forms of energy, of carbon dioxide sequestration technologies and of advanced and innovative environmentally sound technologies; and to reduce or remove market imperfections and subsidies in all greenhouse gas-emitting sectors that run counter to the objective of the convention and application of market instruments.
Guyana is gaining impetus on its Climate Change proposal, with support from the British Government.

It is evident that in order to combat the detriments of climate change today, rich countries need to reduce their emissions, while the developing world needs to generate initiatives to do battle against climate change.
We must laud the efforts of President Jagdeo to craft a proposal called ‘Saving the World’s Forests Today: Creating Incentives to Avoid Deforestation,’ addressing deforestation, and how developing countries can contribute and earn revenues for the sustainable development of their economies. But global cooperation is necessary to manage climate change.
And so, the fight to persuade leaders worldwide to invest in the idea of avoided deforestation to aid in the alleviation of climate change continues to gain momentum. President Jagdeo leads the fight in this part of the world.
Marissa Lowden

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