resident Jagdeo added that if trees are worth more dead than alive, economically rational decision makers in countries with rainforests will find it hard to resist harvesting timber and converting the land to other productive uses, for example, to meet global demand for agricultural products.“Nobody should interpret this as Guyana threatening the world by suggesting that we will deliberately destroy our forest. Guyana has one of the lowest deforestation rates in the world, and we want this to continue.”In common with other rainforest countries, the President said,Cheap Shoes Uk Online, Guyana faces huge developmental challenges.“We need to train our teachers and hospital staff; we need to build schools, hospitals and roads; and we need to create economic opportunities and generate jobs for our citizens.”Developing Guyana’s economy to provide resources to fund these and many other social and economic needs has to be a responsible Government’s top priority.“If we are to reconcile this with the world’s need for forests to be kept intact,Bruce Bowen Jersey, we must find a way to make national development and sustainable use of our forests complementary,Cheap China Jerseys, not competing, objectives.”The analysis over the past several months has focused on three areas, namely: how Guyana can assist the international community forge a post-Kyoto climate agreement that creates incentives to rapidly slow tropical deforestation; developing rigorous business cases for low carbon investment and employment opportunities in the country; and addressing the other side of climate change – the need to invest heavily in infrastructure to protect people and productive land from rising sea levels and changing weather patterns.The work undertaken in each of these areas, he said, will provide the foundation for next year’s national consultation.The report, ‘Creating Incentives to Avoid Deforestation,’ will be presented on Thursday by President Jagdeo to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held in Poland.“We hope that this report will bring fresh thinking to many of the issues which have bedevilled the forest issue internationally.”It has long been recognised, he said, that proposals to ‘simply slow down’ deforestation in countries where it is already taking place, through the use of historical baselines,Wholesale Jerseys China, do not take into account the true economic pressures on the forests, and will not help countries with low historic rates of deforestation.The Head of State pointed out that Guyana needs to protect its forests in a way that does not just rely on the national desire to help the world.“In the future,Cheap Wholesale Jerseys, we need to recognise the economic value of forests to the world, and create market-based mechanisms which out-compete the activities that currently drive economic value to the nation.” (Tusika Martin)| 歡迎光臨 game high遊戲論壇 (http://uflashgame.com/discuz/) | Powered by Discuz! 7.0.0 |