Climate Change and Development Authority

This follows a call for Expression of Interest (EOI) in November 2023, inviting researchers and organizations to propose innovative research projects. There are two categories of the EOI: student and open category.

This was following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Government of PNG and the Government of Australia last year for cooperation on capacity building for PNG’s participation in global carbon markets.

The K200,000 contribution will further efforts to facilitate the promotion of renewable energy and energy efficiency in Papua New Guinea. This work is being conducted under the UNDP managed, Facilitating Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Applications for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction (FREAGER) Project.

The project aims to remove barriers to the uptake of renewable energy technologies and to achieving greater energy efficiency for communities across PNG.

A new public-private partnership between the Government of Papua New Guinea’s Climate Change and Development Authority, Oil Search Limited and U.S. Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, Catherine Ebert-Gray, was formalised recently.

The goal of this partnership is to assess the impact of climatic changes and to establish programs to create a more resilient future for Papua New Guineans.

The project is being conducted at Milne Bay, Manus, Morobe, East New Britain and the Autonomous Region of Bougainville over six years, piloted in 21 vulnerable island communities.

The project aims to bring about change by mainstreaming climate resilience into development plans that address country priorities, focusing on vulnerable communities.

It intends to link national, provincial, district, and ward level plans and demonstrate how these can be aligned to adapt to climate change.

This was revealed today in a workshop aimed to develop a GCF Pipeline for transport and energy sectors.

The workshop was facilitated by the Climate Change and Development Authority (CCDA) in partnership with the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

The five project proposals are ‘Investing in renewable energy for Port Moresby’, ‘Achieving carbon neutrality at the University of PNG’, ‘Investing in solar power in PNG major cities,’ ‘Developing and investing in a pilot geothermal plant’ and ‘Developing and investing in a pilot hydropower plant’.

PNG is currently in the process of developing REDD+ for the country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and in accordance with the 2015 Paris Agreement.

The National REDD+ Strategy was the main focus of discussions and training sessions at a workshop this week in Kavieng attended by 60 representatives from the government and private sector.

The outcomes from the workshop will be in a revised document that will help provide clear direction on how PNG can reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

CCDA national communication officer Larsen Daboyan highlighted that there’s lack of funding for effectively collecting quality data throughout Papua New Guinea.

The agriculture, forestry and land-use sector is a key source of greenhouse gas emissions for PNG.

PNG is among many countries under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that rectified the Paris Agreement and must report on their status on the NGHGI.

The workshop is fully supported by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) scheduled from March 13-17.

The intensive hands-on training is based on the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory (NHGI) for the agriculture, forest and other land uses (AFOLU) sector.

PNG is among many countries under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that rectified the Paris Agreement and must report on their status on the NGHGI.

The Government through CCDA is preparing data from the AFOLU for NGHGI.

This was revealed at a workshop in Port Moresby to revise the work done so far on a complete quality assurance process of the GHG estimations in PNG.

The workshop was facilitated by the Climate Change and Development Authority (CCDA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and attended by officers from the agriculture and land-use sector.

The Government of PNG, through CCDA in partnership with the FAO, is working to complete the GHG estimations from the Agriculture, Forest and Other Land Uses (AFOLU) sector to form the NGHGI.