Access to Norway forest funds hinges on ‘concrete, realistic’ clean energy transition plan

Per Fredrik Pharo

Once the David Granger administration delivers a “concrete, realistic and cost effective plan” for Guyana’s transition to clean and renewable energy sources, the country will get access to funds now held by Norway and the Inter-American Deve-lopment Bank (IDB), according to Special Envoy and Director of the Norwegian International Climate and Forest Initiative Per Fredrik Pharo.

“This is not about any particular project, but about a realistic and politically anchored plan to deliver on the Government’s own stated ambition,” Pharo wrote in an Op-Ed published last Thursday in the state-owned Guyana Chronicle newspaper, where he assured that Norway is committed to supporting Guyana’s transition to clean and renewable energy sources.

The Op-Ed was a response to what Pharo described as