Climate Change

Green technology or clean technology is a term used to describe sustainable energy generation technologies such as photovoltaics, wind turbines and bioreactors.

Pundari stated in Parliament yesterday (Tuesday) that the rainforest is an asset for adaptation as well as mitigation and PNG is one of the only three countries in the world that has a regulatory framework.

He said this allows us to be able to deal with the challenges and the opportunities that climate change actually provides us with a window of opportunities for our people.

The data released by NASA compared each month going back to 1880 against average temperatures between 1951 and 1980, and confirmed preliminary analysis that February was the hottest month on record.

Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau will commit to work together to fight climate change and protect an Arctic experiencing the mildest winter ever recorded, sources familiar with the initiatives said.

The two leaders were expected to announce a number of common climate measures at a meeting at the White House this week, from a 45% cut in methane emissions from the oil and gas industry to protections for a rapidly warming Arctic.

They are suing them to cease conduct that promotes fossil fuel extraction and consumption, and instead develop and implement an actual science-based climate recovery plan.

The complaint argues the youth have a fundamental constitutional right to be free from the government’s destruction of their Earth’s atmosphere.

Greenpeace, in association with the Pacific Island Association of NGOs (PIANGO) has organised the legal get-together, initiated during a June 2015 meeting on climate change impacts between NGOs and community representatives from Vanuatu, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Fiji, Solomon Islands and the Philippines.

Matisse Walkden-Brown, the head of Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s climate justice project, said:

Co-funded by the PNG Government through the Climate Change and Development Authority (CCDA the Building Resilience to Climate Change (BRCC) project has three components.

It will look at:

-preparing Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Plans, which will be implemented with provincial and local authorities, and the Department of Health;

-Sustainable Fishery Ecosystems And Food Security; which will be implemented together with the Coastal and Inland Fisheries Development Agency and National Agricultural Research Institute;

The declaration says even keeping warming to 1.5˚C, as more than 190 governments have agreed to,  will not stave off some climate impacts already being felt by the most vulnerable nations. 

“Together, we’ve shown what’s possible when the world stands as one,” he said. “We met the moment.”

While he saw the agreement as a global achievement, he emphasised what had been accomplished by America since he entered the White House.

The Palestinians say they will submit to the U.N. secretary-general their instruments of accession to the global climate change convention.

Posing as consultants to fossil fuel companies, Greenpeace approached professors at leading US universities to commission reports touting the benefits of rising carbon dioxide levels and the benefits of coal. The views of both academics are well outside mainstream climate science.

The findings point to how paid-for information challenging the consensus on climate science could be placed into the public domain without the ultimate source of funding being revealed.