Georgetown : Former President Bharatt Jagdeo is establishing a foundation which will be operational from January 2, 2013. The Bharrat Jagdeo Foundation will be located at Lot 300, New Garden Street.
Renovations are currently being undertaken on the Old Demerara House where the foundation will be housed.
Dr Jagdeo is the longest serving Guyanese President and during his tenure brought about the Jagdeo Initiative on Agriculture which was formulated to identify and define key, critical and binding constraints to reposition and develop the agriculture sector in the Caribbean region and practical interventions at both the regional and national levels to alleviate the constraints. It requires the involvement of agriculture stakeholders across the Caribbean region through their respective agriculture ministries and private sector teams.
Under President Jagdeo’s leadership, Guyana achieved many successes. In 2010, he was named Champion of the Earth, and his Initiative on Avoided Deforestation, launched in 2008, has taken Guyana to the point where today it can boast of being on the map internationally.
Guyana has taken pioneering steps to address climate change under Jagdeo through its low carbon development strategy (LCDS) and in the establishment in 2010 of the Guyana REDD+
The former President was named by TIME Magazine as a Hero of the Environment and in 2010, he was appointed by the UN Secretary General on the high-level panel that also included former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia and Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of Norway, to shore up climate change funding.
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