Guyana resides in an oil-endowed neighbourhood, 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 neighbourhood, 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. Oil and Climate Change in Guyana’s Wet Neighbourhood undertakes this task.

Griffith examines the dynamics of the country’s oil pursuits in the context of its political environment and provides an assessment of its physical and social geography and its environmental security vulnerability that has been accentuated by climate change factors. He traces the historical background and evolution of Venezuela’s claim to the Essequibo region, going to great lengths to explain the geoeconomic and geopolitical implications for the country’s petro power pursuits.

Included in the book are numerous charts, graphs, and tables that bring together, in one place, facts and statistics about Guyana’s oil, gas, and climate change realities, that will be of immense value to a wide range of stakeholders from researchers, scholars and journalists, to persons wishing to exploit the business and economic opportunities that abound in the country.