Ressources

While the President of Guyana was named a “Champion of the Earth” by the UN earlier this year in relation to his efforts to secure international support for forest protection and “low carbon” growth, some indigenous leaders and civil society organisations both inside and outside the country continue to expose and challenge the deep contradictions in the government’s forest and climate plans. In June 2010, the President of the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) made a strong statement to the Sixth Participant’s Committee meeting of the World Bank Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) in Georgetown, asking why key land rights issues raised repeatedly by APA have still not been addressed in the Guyana Forestry Commission’s (GFC) latest REDD+ readiness proposals.

NGO sign-on letter delivered to the sixth meeting of the governing body of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF)

Letter from Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) to the Secretariat of the World Bank's FCPF, providing further comments as a follow-up to FPP's previous submission of April 2010.(See original submission - April 2010 in the list of Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Evaluation related documents)

Submission to the FCPF secretariat and participants by six NGOs

Forest Peoples Programme's submission to the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, providing comments on the revised draft of the Proposed FCPF Evaluation framework (of 7 March 2010)