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Janette Bulkan & World Bank Technical Advsiory Panel on Suriname's R-PP(1/24/10)

LCDS/governance (11/19/09)

The series of articles linked below are by Janette Bulkan and were taken from Stabroeknews.com

1. Carbon in the forests of Guyana
2. What is carbon?
3. When did carbon become tradable and what is actually traded?
4. REDD antecedents, and possible architecture
5. Area components of the forest carbon budget
6. Biomass/weight in the standing forest carbon budget
7. Gains and losses in the forest carbon budget
8. Losses in the forest carbon budget
9. (2) Losses in the forest carbon budget
10. (3) Summarising the forest carbon budget

Download articles as a pdf document. Dr. Janette Patricia Bulkan received her Ph.D. in Forestry and Environmental Studies from Yale University

Learning Materials available from the LCDS website

1. Presentation given at National Consultations
2. Steering Committee meetings from July state that the LCDS faqs will be translated into 5 different Amerindian languages. These are not available on their website as of 8/23/09.
3. Conceptual framework of the LCDS consultations states that an open web based forum board will be available through the website. As of 11/13/09 this is unavailbe.
4. The McKinsey report. What is it and where are the calculations for the Gog's Avoiding deforestation paper? See emails with the Clinton Climate Initiative, McKinsey and the Government of Guyana. Click here.ny of the awarens session reports document the need for a simpler version of the LCDS and the McKinsey report. Neither of these is available on the LCDS website as of 8/23/09.

• Launch of LCDS in Guyana
• LCDS official site
• Conservation International - Guyana response
• Guyanaforests Blog (archived news articles)
• www.guyanagovernance.blogspot.com
• www.guyanaforestryblog.blogspot.com
• REDD Monitor
• GFC RFPLAN
• GFC Code of Harvesting
• Tropical Forests of the Guiana Shield (book)
• Sustainable Forest Harvest in Iwokrama (EIA)
• LCDS facebook group (any -ve posts deleted by Mr. Young)
• Applicable International Negotiations
• Letter to the Stabroeknews on LCDS by Kofi Dalrymple
• Letter to Kaieteur News by Maya Trotz (8/25/09)
• Thomas Singh's review of the McKinsey report
• Letters to and from Janette Bulkan.
• LCDS Q&A with President Jagdeo by Global Witness (11/19/09)
• AFC review of the LCDS for Guyana

Guyana Floods (referred to alot in the LCDS document

• Guyana Flood Website
• Jouvay.com Flood Website
• Paper on floods and the diaspora by Maya Trotz

LCDS National Consultations & Awareness Sessions

Questions for anyone who can answer:
(posed by Maya Trotz)

1. The Conceptual Framework states that it "is proposed that an LCDS Bulletin Board be a feature of the Website which will publicly track stakeholders’ submissions to and comments on the LCDS draft." As of 8/23/09 this is still unavailable online. Consultations end 9/8/09.

2. To what extent was the public engaged during the development of the LCDS? How were they compensated compared with "preparers" of the LCDS report?

3. From all of the consultation reports it is obvious that the public would like more technical assistance in understanding the strategy. How will this be done over the next few months so that more informed feedback can be included in a position that affects all of Guyana? It is simply NOT OK to refer someone who asked a question to a McKinsey report that IS NOT available on the LCDS website.

4. Three agencies are proposed in the overseeing of the LCDS for Guyana. What options are there to have these not all be government run?

Questions for anyone who can answer:
(posed by Maya Trotz)

5. Why is the educational sector absent from the steering committee, yet there is a strong emphasis on capacity building?

6. Given the opportunity that this strategy gives for public engagement, can a more holistic view be taken towards sustainability that is not simply a low carbon diet? We really have to look at the intersections of water, energy, materials and humans. It is rather interesting to include in the FAQs section of the LCDS language on oil exploration that says Guyana will export crude oil if found, but not use it and that still makes us low carbon. This point was made in Kofi Dalrymple's letter to SN and one should look at the OCC's response.

7. With the strong emphasis on capacity building related to our forests, why is the biodiversity archive at UG still located on the first floor given our history with floods? What transformative educational programs are envisioned to support the LCDS? Have any studies been conducted on actual CO2 fluxes in Guyana?