Comments on: Guyana could be paid for increasing deforestation: Jagdeo http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/11/24/guyana-could-be-paid-for-increasing-deforestation-jagdeo/ news, views and analysis about reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:47:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Concerned Guyanese http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/11/24/guyana-could-be-paid-for-increasing-deforestation-jagdeo/#comment-103047 Concerned Guyanese Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:48:15 +0000 http://www.redd-monitor.org/?p=3310#comment-103047 It it surprising that the people of Norway will do business with a guy like Jagdeo, most of the money from Norway will end up in the pockets of Guyana Government officials and their friends. It it surprising that the people of Norway will do business with a guy like Jagdeo, most of the money from Norway will end up in the pockets of Guyana Government officials and their friends.

]]> By: Chris Lang http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/11/24/guyana-could-be-paid-for-increasing-deforestation-jagdeo/#comment-8755 Chris Lang Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:58:36 +0000 http://www.redd-monitor.org/?p=3310#comment-8755 <object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-sIJrwYWQfA&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-sIJrwYWQfA&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object>

]]> By: Robin Webster http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/11/24/guyana-could-be-paid-for-increasing-deforestation-jagdeo/#comment-8734 Robin Webster Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:49:52 +0000 http://www.redd-monitor.org/?p=3310#comment-8734 It seems to me that Mr Jagdeo has been rather smart - getting paid to do nothing. If there are any dunces involved, it's the people in Oslo that have agreed to finance this nonsense. Perhaps the taxpayers of Norway will be less impressed. It seems to me that Mr Jagdeo has been rather smart – getting paid to do nothing. If there are any dunces involved, it’s the people in Oslo that have agreed to finance this nonsense. Perhaps the taxpayers of Norway will be less impressed.

]]> By: Cheddi http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/11/24/guyana-could-be-paid-for-increasing-deforestation-jagdeo/#comment-8702 Cheddi Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:05:03 +0000 http://www.redd-monitor.org/?p=3310#comment-8702 WHat a dunce this Jagdeo is. You guys should research Guyana and see what a hell hole he is governing. Torture,drugs,extra judicial killing..etc WHat a dunce this Jagdeo is. You guys should research Guyana and see what a hell hole he is governing. Torture,drugs,extra judicial killing..etc

]]> By: Keedo http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/11/24/guyana-could-be-paid-for-increasing-deforestation-jagdeo/#comment-8696 Keedo Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:10:16 +0000 http://www.redd-monitor.org/?p=3310#comment-8696 "Give forests back to local people to save them .. So concludes a study that's tracked the fate of 80 forests worldwide over 15 years" www.newscientist.com/article/dn17937-give-forests-back-to-local-people-to-save-them.html Exactly why the Nobel jury chose Elinor Ostrom this year: "Her work challenged the conventional wisdom that common property is poorly managed and should be either regulated by central authorities or privatised, the jury said .. "If we want to halt the degradation of our natural environment and prevent a repetition of the many collapses of natural-resource stocks experienced in the past, we should learn from the successes and failures of common-property regimes. Ostrom's work teaches us novel lessons about the deep mechanisms that sustain cooperation in human societies .. She conducted numerous studies of user-managed fish stocks, pastures, woods, lakes and groundwater basins, and concluded that the outcomes are "more often than not, better than predicted by standard theories," the jury explained. US Duo Wins Nobel www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/10/12-1 “Give forests back to local people to save them .. So concludes a study that’s tracked the fate of 80 forests worldwide over 15 years” http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17937-give-forests-back-to-local-people-to-save-them.html

Exactly why the Nobel jury chose Elinor Ostrom this year: “Her work challenged the conventional wisdom that common property is poorly managed and should be either regulated by central authorities or privatised, the jury said .. “If we want to halt the degradation of our natural environment and prevent a repetition of the many collapses of natural-resource stocks experienced in the past, we should learn from the successes and failures of common-property regimes. Ostrom’s work teaches us novel lessons about the deep mechanisms that sustain cooperation in human societies .. She conducted numerous studies of user-managed fish stocks, pastures, woods, lakes and groundwater basins, and concluded that the outcomes are “more often than not, better than predicted by standard theories,” the jury explained. US Duo Wins Nobel http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/10/12-1

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