The new Low Carbon Development Strategy 2030 will create a new-low-carbon economy in Guyana by establishing incentives which value the world’s ecosystem services, and promoting these as an essential component of a new model of global development with sustainability at its core.

The Strategy was endorsed by Parliamentary Resolution NO.45. in August 2022.

Implementing LCDS 2030 will advance progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and Guyana’s multilateral, regional and bilateral agreements within the thematic areas of each programme. In fact, the LCDS is aligned to all SDGs to varying degrees. This alignment will feed into sector level planning and will be integrated within institutional programming at Governmental level.

LCDS 2030 main goals:

1. Create New Incentives for a Low-Carbon Economy
2. Protect against Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss
3. Stimulate Future Growth: Clean Energy and Low-carbon Development
4. Align with Global Climate and Biodiversity Goals

More information at: https://lcds.gov.gy/

I. A new ecosystem services economy

1.1.

Finalise and Implement Voluntary Partnership Agreement under EUFLEGT

1.2.

Implement Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC)

1.3.

Expand local value chain for wood products

1.4.

Improved planning and recovery in mining areas

2.1.

Integrate planning and management of the mining and forestry sectors

2.2.

Continually improve sustainable forest management

2.3.

Advance low-impact mining

3.1.

 Enhancing the Guyana Forestry Commission and Guyana Geology and Mines Commission Codes of Practice

3.2.

 Advancing Transparency through Guyana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GYEITI)

4.1.

Finalising and implementing the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) under EU-FLEGT

4.2.

Implementation of Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC)

4.3.

 Improving added-value activities for forest products locally

5.2.

Exploring options for land reclamation and reforestation of mined areas

6.1.

Sustain Monitoring, Reporting and Verification System (MRVS) for REDD+ and ART-TREES

6.2.

Implement Safeguard Information System for REDD+ and ART-TREES

6.3.

Create Policy and Legal Framework for projectlevel climate services, including framework for private sector-led reclamation and reforestation programmes

7.1.

Expansion and protection of Guyana's mangrove forests

7.2.

Maintain Intact Forest Landscapes

7.3.

Biodiversity Conservation and Protection

7.4.

Watershed Management

7.5.

Examine green-grey solutions (engineered infrastructure/mangroves)

7.6.

Strengthen and expand Guyana's Protected Area System

7.7.

International Center for Biodiversity Research

8.1.

 Expansion and restoration of Guyana’s mangrove forests and ecosystems

8.2.

Examination of Green-Grey Solutions (Engineered Infrastructure-Mangroves) utilising mangroves in Guyana’s coastal protection

8.3.

Maintenance of intact forest landscapes

8.4.

Watershed Protection

9.1.

Leveraging biodiversity through the LCDS will be supported by up-to-date knowledge and skills