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 Part 1
9. Losses in the forest carbon budget Part 2
10. Summarising the forest carbon budget Part 3

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

To understand more about the Guiana Shield please see this article.

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 webiste as of 8/23/09.
3. Many of the awareness 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.