A 'Win- Win' Strategy for All? Guyana's Climate Change Strategies and Implications for Indigenous Communities

A 'Win- Win' Strategy for All? Guyana's Climate Change Strategies and Implications for Indigenous Communities

In the contemporary global political context of stringent conservation policy and low carbon economies, Guyana has positioned itself between two divergent paths of development and identity: 1) its desire to entrench itself as a competitive player in the global economy, and 2) its goal to pursue a more ecologically sustainable model of development. Focusing on Guyana's controversial Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) and its Reduction of Emissions through Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) framework, this paper critically explores the increasing marketization of forest management and climate change governance and their implications for negotiating Indigenous rights and participation in national and global climate change and conservation policies and debates.

Chung Tiam Fook, Tanya

Caribbean Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2013)

Caribbean Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy

2013-04-06

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