THE Amerindian Action Movement of Guyana (TAAMOG) wishes to extend congratulations to the Government of Guyana (GOG) on the receipt of its third consecutive payment of US$45M for climate Services from Norway which is well earned and which was consistently and independently verified.

This clearly shows that Guyana has a dynamic team committed to ensuring that Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) fulfils its objective of combating climate change while at the same time pursuing low carbon development.
The Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) which forms part of this committed team must also be congratulated for playing a crucial role at the ground level for ensuring that the integrity of our forests is maintained, thus keeping Guyana’s deforestation rate well below the average and for producing very good scientific and interim measures reports which significantly contributed to Guyana’s qualification for this third payment under the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Guyana and Norway.
Many Amerindian communities are following the GFC’s guidelines for sustainable forest management which will go down well when the “Opting-In” mechanism for Amerindian communities is in place.
Norway, in its third payment to Guyana for climate services is worthy of special congratulations for understanding Guyana’s political, social and economic climate, thus ignoring the hideous detractors who want to see the failure of Guyana’s LCDS based on their partisan political agenda. These detractors are the APNU/AFC (parliamentary opposition), APA and Janette Bulkan & company and sections of the media who are now left standing with their mouths open in shame. But, that is their place.