President David Granger on Friday welcomed opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo’s advocacy on climate change in New York.
Jagdeo is currently in New York, where he has held and will be holding meetings with leaders at the United Nations, discussing climate change and outlining his initiatives for a green earth. He also attended the Clinton Global Initiative meeting, held from the 26-29 September, and was part of the plenary session on climate change and resiliency.
“At the United Nations, former president Jagdeo emphasised how people from developing countries around the world continued to be united in their desire to provide solutions to climate change. He noted the immense progress made by countries such as Brazil, which has just set out ambitious climate goals to 2025, building on their remarkable success with the Amazon,” a release from the Office of the Leader of the Opposition stated.
Further, it stated that Jagdeo also joined former New Zealand prime minister and current Adminis-trator of the United Nations Development Pro-gramme at the launch of a report by the Center for Global Development, which focused on world-leading national global models for low carbon development.
There, he highlighted Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), and the fact that the Guyana-Norway partnership on forests is the world’s second largest forest payment for performance mechanism, after Brazil’s Amazon Fund.
The former president urged developed and developing countries to use their sights towards an ambitious agreement to stabilise the planet’s climate, the statement added.
Granger said that he was pleased that Jagdeo is working for the government in the climate change drive and pointed out that his administration continues to use elements of the LCDS. The Jagdeo administration was responsible for the drafting of the LCDS, which the current administration considers a precursor to its Green Energy Trust (GET).
“During his tenure in office, he did advance certain initiatives and it is very useful and we would like to embrace those initiatives. We are not in the business of refusing assistance from the former president,” Granger said.
