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Australian Prime Minister hails Guyana’s LCDS

Sep 24, 2009 News

Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, has expressed his country’s interest in collaborating with Guyana in the global effort to address climate change after lauding Guyana’s leadership on climate change during a bilateral meeting with President Jagdeo in New York, on Tuesday.

Australia has committed to support Guyana’s Monitoring Reporting and Verification (MRV) system. This development builds on Guyana’s recent work on developing its MRV system at which several experts from the Australian Climate Office participated.

During the meeting President Jagdeo used the occasion to outline Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) and told his Australian counterpart that national scale lessons such as the LCDS are important in order to demonstrate that economic development can be pursued diligently.

President Jagdeo added that the LCDS is a development strategy that goes beyond the small scale projects that have hitherto been used to demonstrate that both the climate change and the development challenges are linked inextricably.

The Australian Prime Minister described the LCDS as an intelligent model in consonance with Australia’s efforts to combat the effects of climate change.

He said that Australia is not averse to helping developing countries like Guyana in their attempt to mitigate climate change through avoided deforestation and forest conservation.

The two leaders agreed that the climate challenge cannot be met through ad-hoc incremental actions but by concrete action such as emission cuts. In this regard President Jagdeo reiterated Guyana’s interest in a global climate deal in Copenhagen, which allows for low emission, high growth pathway to meet development and climate challenges.

They also agreed that emission cuts are unavoidable in the effects to combat climate change and vowed to continue discussions at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) to explore areas of bilateral cooperation on climate change, as well as regional initiatives for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). (GINA)

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