FIU's Latin American and Caribbean Center and Books & Books proudly present an evening with Dr. Ivelaw L. Griffith at Books & Books.

Book Description:

Guyana resides in an oil- endowed neighborhood, along with Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, and Trinidad and Tobago as major oil and gas producers and Suriname rising in the petro production ranks. However, South America’s sole Anglophone republic is also located in a wet neighborhood, where climate change has begun to impact society and can diminish some of the oil gains. This dual reality requires understanding the vicissitudes of the promise of oil and the potential peril of climate change.

This book undertakes this task. It examines the dynamics of the country’s oil pursuits in the context of its political environment, assesses its physical and social geography and its environmental security vulnerability that has been accentuated by climate change factors, and explains the geoeconomic and geopolitical implications of Venezuela’s claim to Essequibo for the country’s petro power pursuits. The book also carries an appendix with fun facts about the country’s oil, gas, and climate change realities.

Dr. Ivelaw Griffith is a Fellow with the Caribbean Policy Consortium and a former Senior Associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies who has published widely on Caribbean affairs.