Excerpt and Photo from apnews.com
Guyana is making a lot of noise internationally, hoping to convince more people that trees should be saved and there should be a dollar value attached to keeping forests intact.
The country’s President Dr. Irfaan Ali and Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo are among those travelling from country to country, conference to assembly, hoping to convince more people that saving these forests, which trap harmful greenhouse emissions, is just as important as cutting out fossil fuel use.
But usually behind the scenes, paying rapt attention to people’s verbal and non-verbal responses to Guyana’s arguments and plans is Pradeepa Bholanath. She’s Guyana’s lead climate negotiator and a champion of the country’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS).
