Guyana Climate Change Action Plan

Guyana Climate Change Action Plan seeks to address commitments of Guyana to the Convention by formulating national programme containing measures to mitigate climate change by addressing anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, and measures to facilitate adequate adaptation to climate change. 

The action plan seeks to develop, apply and diffuse technologies (and technology transfer), practices and processes that control, reduce or prevent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases in all relevant sectors, including energy, transport, industry, agriculture, forestry, waste management, and health sectors. It is recognized that the action plan cannot be implemented without the financial and other resource assistance of the developed country parties and multilateral institutions. It is, therefore, necessary that convention secretariat, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the developed country parties honor their commitments by providing resources (financial, technological, and technical) to enable Guyana to realize the implementation of the activities listed in the Plan.  

The focuses of the action plans are to:

• Develop the capacity to undertake sectoral and national inventories of anthropogenic emissions. 
• Develop the capacity to conduct a vulnerability assessment of sectors and communities and to identify adaptation measures required to address the impacts of climate change. 
• Implement measures to facilitate adequate adaptation to climate change. 
• Implement programmes containing measures to mitigate climate change. 
• Identify and implement sustainable development measures which are compatible with the objectives of the Convention; and 
• Identify and implement capacity building and other programmes, which seek to promote the objectives of the UNFCCC as well as other Conventions and Protocols.