Norway’s forest saving partnership with Guyana will “most certainly” continue after 2015 but exactly how will be worked out at the appropriate time, the Scandinavian’s state Minister of the Environment and International Development Erik Solheim has said.
“That of course will be considered at that time, but we all understand that this is not any problem that can be solved in five years’ time. It will take many, many years to establish a growth path which is not destroying the forest so most certainly we will have to continue after 2015 but the discussions have to take [place] at that time,” he told Stabroek News in an interview on Friday.
The two countries in November 2009 inked an MOU worth potentially up to US$250 million ($51.7 billion) by 2015 for Guyana to preserve its forests. Norway has committed to provide up to US$250 million to the
