Georgetown : Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo spent today in a series of meetings with German leaders and senior officials.
Discussions centered on the need for sustained political action on climate change, and in particular on Guyana and Germany's upcoming joint chairing of the Interim REDD+ Partnership from July 1, 2011. The group consists of most of the world's forest countries and key developed countries.
President Jagdeo met with His Excellency, President Christian Wulff at Bellevue, the German President's official residence. Speaking afterwards, President Jagdeo said, "In the run up to Copenhagen, the issue of climate change and green growth received an unprecedented level of first-order political attention. Sadly, that attention has faded in many cases. However, Germany has remained firm in its commitment, both to the deep emissions cuts required to stabilize our planet's climate, and to the protection of bio-diversity and the alleviation of poverty across the world. Chancellor Merkel and the German Government's leadership continue to be needed. I am confident that Guyana and Germany will both apply the necessary political leadership to the issue of deforestation and forest degradation in our upcoming co-chairing of the Interim REDD+ Partnership."
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