Norway to release all remaining payments under forest protection deal

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In photo are the two teams after discussions on the Guyana-Norway partnership. Fifth and sixth from right are Minister Hastings-Williams and Minister Elvestuen. From left are Nikolaus Oudkerk, Coordinator of the Project Management Office (PMO); Ambassador Troy Torrington; Head Office of Climate Change Guyana, Janelle Christian; Dr. Marlon Bristol, Head of PMO; Vedis Vik, Senior Advisor Nicfi; Andreas Dahl-Jorgensen, Director of Nicfi; Ragnhild Eikenes, Nicfi’s Communication Adviser. (Ministry of the Presidency photo)
In photo are the two teams after discussions on the Guyana-Norway partnership. Fifth and sixth from right are Minister Hastings-Williams and Minister Elvestuen. From left are Nikolaus Oudkerk, Coordinator of the Project Management Office (PMO); Ambassador Troy Torrington; Head Office of Climate Change Guyana, Janelle Christian; Dr. Marlon Bristol, Head of PMO; Vedis Vik, Senior Advisor Nicfi; Andreas Dahl-Jorgensen, Director of Nicfi; Ragnhild Eikenes, Nicfi’s Communication Adviser. (Ministry of the Presidency photo)

Norway yesterday announced that it would release all remaining payments – amounting to around US$50M – under an historic 2009 forest protection accord with Guyana which was worth US$250m.

Minister of State, Dawn Hastings-Williams and Norway’s Minister for Climate and Environment, Ola Elvestuen, yesterday, met on the margins of the UN Climate Summit in New York and welcomed successes and results achieved under the partnership between Guyana and Norway.

This is according to a statement yesterday from the Ministry of the Presidency.

In accordance with the bilateral agreement