Opinion
Rainforest Foundation Norway: Questions on your congratulatory message on the issuance of Winrock-ART’s TREES jurisdictional forest-based carbon credits to Guyana on 5 December 2022
Dear Rainforest Foundation Norway We noted with surprise a congratulatory message attributed to Rainforest Foundation Norway on the issuance of Winrock-ART’s TREES jurisdictional forest-based carbon credits to Guyana on 5 December 2022 (Department of Public Information (2022) ‘Sale of carbon credits: $157B for investments in low-carbon development across Guyana’, Department of Public Information, 21 December. Available…
WRI: Questions on your congratulatory message on the issuance of Winrock-ART’s TREES jurisdictional forest-based carbon credits to Guyana on 5 December 2022
Dear Dr Ani Dasgupta Ani.dasgupta@wri.org We noted with surprise a congratulatory message attributed to WRI on the issuance of Winrock-ART’s TREES jurisdictional forest-based carbon credits to Guyana on 5 December 2022 (Department of Public Information (2022) ‘Sale of carbon credits: $157B for investments in low-carbon development across Guyana’, Department of Public Information, 21 December. Available at: https://dpi.gov.gy/sale-of-carbon-credits-157b-for-investments-in-low-carbon-development-across-guyana/) ….
Re:wild – Questions on your congratulatory message on the issuance of Winrock-ART’s TREES jurisdictional forest-based carbon credits to Guyana on 5 December 2022
Dear Re:wild We noted with surprise a congratulatory message attributed to Re:wild on the issuance of Winrock-ART’s TREES jurisdictional forest-based carbon credits to Guyana on 5 December 2022 (Department of Public Information (2022) ‘Sale of carbon credits: $157B for investments in low-carbon development across Guyana’, Department of Public Information, 21 December. Available at: https://dpi.gov.gy/sale-of-carbon-credits-157b-for-investments-in-low-carbon-development-across-guyana/) . Re:wild allegedly stated…
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Queries about the purchase by Hess Corporation of jurisdictional carbon credits from the Government of Guyana
For the attention of Board chairman James H Quigley, Chief Executive Office John B Hess, and shareholders in the Hess Corporation Via Lorrie Hecker, Vice President for Communications, e-mail lhecker@hess.com Subject: Queries about the purchase by Hess Corporation of jurisdictional carbon credits from the Government of Guyana We refer to your Press statement dated December 2, 2022,…
The range of tenures (property rights) that underlie the jurisdictional carbon credits sold by Guyana to oil company Hess Corporation
On 1 December, Winrock International and The Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) published the news on their websites that Winrock’s Architecture on REDD+ Transactions (ART) had issued the world’s first TREES credits to Guyana, a total of 33.47 million carbon credits. The oil company Hess Corporation announced on the same day that it had purchased or intended to purchase 37.5…
Jurisdictional forest-based carbon credits
We Guyanese have been selling our natural assets to foreigners for five hundred years or more, from red annatto for dyeing cloth, now to oil for powering vehicles. On 01 December 2022, the government announced a new version of a scheme for monetizing our forests – ‘jurisdictional forest-based carbon credits’. This idea has been tried…
Gov’t and its partner Winrock have illegally arrogated to themselves the rights vested solely in Amerindian land title holders
Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Mr Lenox Shuman, listed some of the functions of the National Toshaos Council that are set out in the Amerindian Act 2006. He then writes, ‘the NTC, by the stroke of a pen and the endorsement by the entire NTC at the last conference, has endorsed one of the…