{"id":14426,"date":"2023-11-29T18:39:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T18:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=14426"},"modified":"2023-11-29T18:39:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T18:39:42","slug":"guyana-utilizes-carbon-credit-funds-for-amerindian-community-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-utilizes-carbon-credit-funds-for-amerindian-community-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana Utilizes Carbon Credit Funds for Amerindian Community Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Guyana has made significant progress in utilizing funds earned from the sale of carbon credits for development, particularly in Amerindian communities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo provided an update, stating that 500 projects are currently under implementation across 242 Amerindian communities, utilizing 15% of the Carbon Credit funds paid in the first year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has changed the model for distributing funds to communities, resulting in shorter times for people to benefit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new system aims to build local capacity for managing funds while ensuring intended benefits are realized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Radha-Jagdeo-Projects-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice President Jagdeo highlighted the buy-in from villagers, emphasizing that the projects being implemented in Amerindian villages have secured community support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Radha-Jagdeo-Projects-2.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of the initial $150 million US dollars received from the carbon credit sale, $22.5 million was allocated to the 242 Amerindian villages for funding development projects of their choice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total expected from the sale of 30% of Guyana\u2019s certified carbon credits is $750 million US dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guyana has made significant progress in utilizing funds earned from the sale of carbon credits for development, particularly in Amerindian communities. Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo provided an update, stating that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[362,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-low-carbon-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14430,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14426\/revisions\/14430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}