Guyana is not exactly your average place. As the only English-speaking country on the South American continent, its land area sits well with its British colonial heritage - it is about the size of the UK. But whereas the UK crams 60 million people into its borders, Guyana only has 770,000 - in fact, more Guyanese people live outside the country than inside it.
And what Guyana does not have in the way of people, it makes up for with trees - it boasts a vast terrain of undisturbed tropical rainforest. It follows that Guyana's government is hoping to turn its trees into cash, not by cutting them down, but by receiving rewards for their contribution to preventing climate change.
