Guyana building leadership on national model for sustainable development – CI vice president

TIMES INT'L

Guyana received kudos for “building leadership on a national model for sustainable development” when Vice President of Conservation International (CI) Dr Fabio Scarano met President Donald Ramotar last week.
Guyana, according to Dr Scarano, is setting the precedent for the region and will benefit from the necessary technical and other support from CI with the hope of achieving sustainable development goals.
CI is a non-profit environmental organisation that works in partnership with sections of society, including remote villages and governments to protect nature, and its biodiversity, for the benefit of humanity.
It operates in more than 10 countries across the Americas, and is beginning to see “a number of interesting examples at the local level in terms of sustainable development,” Dr Scarano said. He was accompanied by CI Director Dr David Singh and head of the Office of Climate Change Shyam Nokta.
In October, CI launched a project within the Rupununi in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for 23 environmentally-sustainable community-based enterprises built around nature based tourism and agriculture.
About 7500 residents, representing 40 per cent of the Rupununi are expected to benefit from the project through business planning activities, financing and technical support.
Dr Singh, who at the launch, said the project will seek to develop a “model for low carbon development within the local environment”. “The project will be… demonstrating, not only nationally, but globally, how in fact, livelihoods of people can be enhanced through enterprise development following low carbon or a green development path,” Dr Singh said.

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