Guyana's President Irfaan Ali attends a roundtable during the summit between leaders of the European Union (EU) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), in Brussels, Belgium July 17, 2023. REUTERS/Johanna Geron
Why Do You Have the Authority to Lecture Us? President of Guyana Irfan Ali attacks “Western hypocrisy” on carbon emissions in a BBC report that has gone viral.
Georgetown: The harsh criticism of “Western hypocrisy” over carbon emissions by Guyanese President Irfan Ali has gone viral.
Speaking in an interview with BBC journalist Stephen Sackur, President Irfaan Ali was asked about Guyana’s carbon emission rates in light of the country’s plans to exploit gas and oil along its coast.
In a widely shared interview, the Guyanese President is shown cutting off the journalist’s inquiry and asking him pointed questions about if he was in the “pockets of people that ruin the environment through the industrialPresident Ali, countered the journalist’s query that Guyana’s extraction of oil and gas will lead to more than two billion metric tonnes of carbon emissions from its coast, saying, “Do you know that Guyana has a forest forever that is the size of England and Scotland combined? A forest that stores 19.5 Gigatons of carbon, a forest that we have kept alive.”
Why Do You Have the Authority to Lecture Us? President of Guyana Irfan Ali attacks “Western hypocrisy” on carbon emissions in a BBC report that has gone viral.
Georgetown: The harsh criticism of “Western hypocrisy” over carbon emissions by Guyanese President Irfan Ali has gone viral.
Speaking in an interview with BBC journalist Stephen Sackur, President Irfaan Ali was asked about Guyana’s carbon emission rates in light of the country’s plans to exploit gas and oil along its coast.
In a widely shared interview, the Guyanese President is shown cutting off the journalist’s inquiry and asking him pointed questions about if he was in the “pockets of people that ruin the environment through the industrial
