Guyana, Germany gear up to Co-Chair Interim REDD+ Partnership

President Bharrat Jagdeo (left) is welcomed by his German counterpart Christian Wulff at the presidential Bellevue palace in Berlin yesterday.(REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch).

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday in a series of meetings in Germany with that country’s leaders focused on the need for sustained political action on climate change, and in particular on Guyana’s and Germany’s upcoming joint chairing of the Interim REDD+ Partnership from July 1, the Government Information Agency (GINA) said in a press release.

The group consists of most of the world’s forest