The publication of Ivelaw Griffith’s seminal study Oil and Climate Change in Guyana’s Wet Neighbourhood, comes appropriately on the tenth anniversary of the discovery of massive oil deposits by Guyana, which the country has since decided to exploit with an estimated one million barrels a day by 2026.

While this promises to bring the country untold petro dollar wealth in the present and immediate future, Guyana’s gamble to exploit oil and gas comes at a time when the future of the planet is gravely imperiled from the existential danger posed by climate change, particularly for Guyana itself, lying as it does below sea level in its coastal areas.

This is the dilemma that Professor Ivelaw Griffith analyses in this timely reference work, which, in addition to its focus on oil gas and the environment, also places in context, the country’s political economic and social environment and the peril posed by the treat of annexation by Venezuela.

Included in this readable text are numerous charts, graphs, and tables that aid easy understanding, while bringing together in one place, facts and statistics about Guyana’s oil and climate change realities not easily accessible elsewhere. The author develops his well-balanced arguments by quoting extensively from academic and policy documents and published comments in the Guyanese and other media to add credibility and authenticity to the work

This makes Griffith’s up to date and thoroughly researched work the best and most comprehensive resource available for scholars, researchers, students, journalists and for people planning to do business with and in Guyana and most important of all, Guyanese at home and overseas.