{"id":25541,"date":"2025-01-16T17:50:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T17:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=25541"},"modified":"2025-01-16T17:50:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T17:50:31","slug":"president-ali-receives-wilson-centre-award-for-biodiversity-and-climate-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/president-ali-receives-wilson-centre-award-for-biodiversity-and-climate-action\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ali Receives Wilson Centre Award for Biodiversity and Climate Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Josiah Williams | December 6, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Irfaan Ali has been honored with the prestigious Wilson Centre Latin America Award in recognition of his significant contributions to biodiversity and climate change efforts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award was presented to him during a gala ceremony held in Miami, Florida, on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award acknowledges President Ali&#8217;s leadership in environmental sustainability, particularly in protecting Guyana&#8217;s vast forests and promoting climate action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his speech, the President expressed his gratitude for the recognition and highlighted the importance of sustainable economic models that support both environmental conservation and the prosperity of the people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He underscored the need for innovative approaches that place value on biodiversity and standing forests, advocating for market mechanisms and pricing strategies to ensure their preservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, President Ali announced that Guyana would host the first Global Biodiversity Summit next year and aim to establish the Global Biodiversity Alliance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This initiative is part of Guyana&#8217;s broader efforts to safeguard its rich biodiversity, which is among the highest in the world, even as global biodiversity continues to decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award ceremony also emphasized Guyana&#8217;s partnership with former Colombian President Ivan Duque and the Concordia organization to pilot the biodiversity alliance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Ali&#8217;s vision aligns with Guyana&#8217;s Low-Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) 2030, which has successfully integrated forest protection with carbon credit trading, creating both environmental and financial benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through his leadership, President Ali continues to advocate for global action on climate change, positioning Guyana as a key player in international environmental and sustainability discussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Josiah Williams | December 6, 2024 President Irfaan Ali has been honored with the prestigious Wilson Centre Latin America Award in recognition of his significant contributions to biodiversity and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[362,363,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-low-carbon-development","category-national-transformation","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25541","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=25541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25542,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25541\/revisions\/25542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}