November 12,2016 Source
THE Government of Guyana remains committed to working along with the United Nations Conference of Parties (COP 22) to reduce the rate at which global warming is taking place.
President David Granger is slated to participate at the annual conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is being held in Marrakesh, Morocco until November 18, 2016.
“Generally, we are parties to various conventions and agreements and we will continue to commit parts of our forests, our waterways, our wetlands and to keep those parts of our country green,” President Granger told journalists during his weekly television programme, “The Public Interest.”
“We’ve already made commitments for the reduction of global warming and internally in Guyana; we’re now working on our budget.
“We’re going to move more closely to adopting green energy and to reducing the possibility of warming inside Guyana; doing away with plastics, doing away with fossil fuel, energy generation and also keeping our forest intact.”
Meanwhile, Granger is confident that newly elected President of the United States Donald Trump will change his mind as it relates to climate change and the impact it has on the world. Trump does not accept scientific evidence that climate change is real and wants to dismantle the Paris Agreement, which is a global agreement on the reduction of climate change.
“He is being briefed by the technical and political leaders in the Obama administration. I reckon in the next two months he will become more aware that global warming is a reality.
I think there is abundant evidence to show what is taking place in the world is not normal and that the generation of greenhouse gases….I’m quite sure that once he’s in office and gets the benefit of the advice of technical people in the U.S. administration, there may be some modification of his views,” President Granger said.
Guyana can be severely affected if climate change is not taken seriously, since most of the population and businesses are located along the coast which is approximately six feet below sea level at high tide, which makes it vulnerable to rising ocean levels.
