Angered by a report which suggested that the Low Carbon Development  Strategy (LCDS) is based on advice that could be described as ‘junk  economics,” President Bharrat Jagdeo has accused Rainforest Foundation  UK of being stuck in the colonial-era mentality.
International consultants, McKinsey and Company, have provided services  to Guyana and other countries in the context of a global plan to reduce  emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, called REDD, which  was agreed to at the just ended UN Climate Summit in Cancun.