PLANNING, Economic Affairs and Development Minister Kennedy Swaratsingh says government is open to co-operation and collaboration with the UK government on a number of issues pertaining to economic development in this country.

Swaratsingh, who was sworn in on May 3, along with the ministry’s management team met with Minister Kerry McCarthy, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero of the United Kingdom and her team in Port of Spain on May 7.

A release from the ministry said discussions were centred on the exploration of mutually beneficial opportunities between TT and the UK Government in the areas of green carbon initiatives, offshore wind energy, decarbonisation of the industrial sector, advances in the green shipping industry and other programmes that contribute to the attainment of Trinidad and Tobago’s nationally determined contributions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).