Guyana's 2030 Low Carbon Development Strategy: Mainstreaming SDG progress

THE Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) 2030 and Guyana’s national development policy direct the country’s approach to carry out its international obligations under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The first phase, LCDS 2009, included one of the largest national discussions in Guyana’s history and defined a staged method by which Guyana may profit from the forest climate services and allocate the money to LCDS priorities.

The National Strategy for Guyana is outlined in the LCDS 2030, which builds on the LCDS 2009. LCDS 2030 outlines the approach and actions that Guyana, as a nation, can take to develop and grow for the inclusive benefit of all in a non-polluting, low-carbon way; it also involves utilising the country’s natural resources sustainably while combating climate change and its adverse effects such as floods and droughts.

Further, it also outlines how Guyana can sustain its world-class ecosystem services for the long term by integrating with the global economy, receiving payments for ecosystem services, and seeking to align with and contribute to global climate goals, which include net zero carbon emissions and keeping global temperatures below 1.5 °C.

Guyana sought a bilateral partner open to collaboration which shared the country’s ambition for developing a global model in Phase One. It was also established that the forest climate services. its forest climate services. The LCDS 2030 also outlines how the nation may begin preparing for pro-

The Amerindian Development Fund project, the rehabilitation of the Cunha Canal, clean energy, low-carbon jobs, land titling for Amerindians, support for small and medium enterprise development in partnership with the local banking sector, and many other investments that were outlined in the LCDS 2009 and a 2013 update, were and continue to be funded with these revenues, as illustrated below.

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Guyana-Norway pact, the second largest forest pact of its sort in the world at the time, was the result of this, and it was signed in 2009.

For 2009–2015, Norway paid Guyana more than US$220 million for

The plan outlined in 2009 has gone on to Phase 2 in Guyana, and the country can begin to supplement or replace its payments to Norway and earn money from international voluntary carbon markets in exchange for