In Guyana, the MIA agroforestry project wants to develop the timber and wood energy sectors

A height. Despite the omnipresence of the forest – which covers 96% of its territory – the resource of wood energy and cheap timber is lacking in Guyana. Logging has focused on luxury timber, given production costs and the strict rule enforced by the National Forestry Office (ONF) to harvest only five stems per hectare every 65 year olds. It was even necessary to include a derogation in the European directive on renewable energies, known as RED II, so that Guyana might exploit for energy purposes related products resulting from the exploitation of the tropical forest, agricultural clearing or the ONF who plunge deeper and deeper into the forest. Until then, these woods were buried or, worse, burned, releasing in both cases carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4)! A desaster.

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