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Some notes on Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy and Global Environmental law.

The Guyana Low Carbon development strategy has been hailed as an innovative mechanism by which developing countries might maintain their forest resources for the mitigation of the global environmental degradation whilst being compensated for their trouble by developed countries. While the plan seems simple enough, and the regulation of this model has been impressively written up and presented as viable. There has not been significant investigation or consideration of the legal regulation of this model with the intention of creating an holistic legal structure which accounts for the domestic and the international legal principles and regimen which will affect it. There is little understanding of the concept of traditional knowledge and Intellectual property , the interplay of the law of international trade and private international law , the domestic law requirements for the internal regulation of the scheme and the rules of global environmental law which will be applicable to