Relationship dossier
Guyana
Norway
Relationship assessment
Guyana and Norway built a climate partnership linking forest protection with Norwegian financial support.
Guyana toward Norway
+40Guyana entered a climate and forest-conservation partnership with Norway and pursued forest-protection and low-carbon development initiatives linked to performance-based Norwegian support.
Norway toward Guyana
+40Norway provided performance-linked financial support to Guyana under a climate and forest-conservation partnership focused on forest protection and low-carbon development.
Overall relationship
+40The central feature of the relationship is a sustained climate partnership pairing Guyana’s forest-protection and low-carbon development initiatives with Norwegian financial support. This gives bilateral ties a concrete cooperative foundation, although the broader relationship is less clear.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Guyana and Norway developed a substantial climate and forest-conservation partnership beginning in 2009. Guyana undertook forest-protection and low-carbon development initiatives, while Norway provided performance-linked financial support. The relationship is notably cooperative in this area, though its broader scope is less clear.
Key developments
Guyana and Norway established a climate and forest-conservation partnership linking forest protection to performance-based financial support.
Norwegian funding supported Guyana’s forest-protection and low-carbon development initiatives through the partnership.
Major uncertainties
- The extent of bilateral cooperation beyond climate and forest conservation is unclear.
- The longer-term implementation and status of the partnership’s initiatives are uncertain.