A “satisfactory” global climate agreement should include financing mechanisms to help small countries like Guyana cope with and adapt to climate change, Minister Raphael Trotman said Monday as he began high level talks at the UN Climate Summit in Paris.“The development of large countries has led to environmental destruction, and we’re the ones paying the price,” Trotman said of vulnerable countries like Guyana threatened by sea level rise. He is being accompanied by Finance Minister Winston Jordan.
“Whilst we are being nudged to go to renewable energy (namely solar, hydro and wind power) we need financing, technology and training,” Trotman stated.

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