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This report proposes guidelines for developing REDD+ reference levels (RLs) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).1 It identifies principles that should be adhered to, the steps that must be taken, the data that will be required, and shows how the data can be analyzed to produce scientifically credible estimates of historic GHG emissions and removals from forests, which can then be used to project RLs.
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The introduction of REDD+ in participating countries is likely to have a significant impact on the dynamics of conflicts over forest resources, and on land, oil, gas, minerals and other valuable resources in forested areas. The purpose of this Guidance Note is to help countries strengthen their capacity for grievance resolution in order to respond to contentious issues, complaints and disputes.
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Complex and variable ecological and social settings make the programme on reducing emissions through avoided deforestation, forest degradation and other forestry activities in developing countries (REDD+) a challenging policy to design. The total value to society of each type of REDD+ outcome is dependent on the fundamentally different risk profiles of alternative forest-management approaches and their scope and potential for co-benefits. We suggest a modular policy framework for REDD+ that distinguishes and differentially compensates the distinct outcomes. This could represent an improved framework to promote and manage incentives for effective forest-carbon initiatives, offer better scope to find common ground in policy negotiations and allow faster adaptation of policy to an uncertain future.
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Climate Policy Initiative is a team of analysts and advisors that works to improve the most important energy and land use policies around the world, with a particular focus on finance. An independent organization supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Foundations, CPI works in places that provide the most potential for policy impact including Brazil, China, Europe, India, Indonesia, and the United States. CPI’s work helps nations grow while addressing increasingly scarce resources and climate risk. This is a complex challenge in which policy plays a crucial role. The EU REDD Facility supports partner countries in improving land use governance as part of their effort to slow, halt and reverse deforestation. The Facility also supports the overall EU effort to reduce its impact on deforestation in developing countries. The Facility is hosted by the European Forest Institute (EFI), and was established in 2010. It is funded by the European Union, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain and the United Kingdom.
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A successful REDD+ mechanism will allow PNG to protect the country’s forests with its rich biodiversity and cultural value.
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For this alone, it reflects PNG’s long standing commitment in addressing global climate change. In particular by proposing measures to realise the carbon abatement opportunity offered by preserving and sustainably managing tropical forests, i.e. by introducing the concept of REDD-plus into international negotiations in 2005 alongside Costa Rica.
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Weather consists of the short-term (minutes to days) variations in the atmosphere. Weather is expressed in terms of temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, visibility and wind. Climate is the slowly varying aspect of the atmosphere-hydrosphere-land surface system. It is typically characterized in terms of averages of specific states of the atmosphere, ocean, and land, including variables such as temperature (land,ocean, and atmosphere), salinity (oceans), soil moisture (land), wind speed and direction (atmosphere), and current strength and direction (oceans).
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The NCA report is the official US Government “State of the Union” about climate change, produced andvetted by 13 Federal agencies.
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L3MTO provides probabilistic local forecasts of 3-month average daily temperatures for thirteen consecutive 3-month periods (January-February-March, February-March-April, March-April-May, etc.).
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The El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a recurring climate pattern involving changes in the temperature of waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean and the patterns of sea level pressure, lower- and upper-level winds, and tropical rainfall across the Pacific basin.
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The purpose of this fact sheet is to present an outline to assist in beginning a discussion on climate at a very basic and elementary level.
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Drought is a deficiency in precipitation over an extended period. It is a normal, recurrent feature of climate that occurs in virtually all climate zones. The duration of droughts varies widely. There are cases when drought develops relatively quickly and lasts a very short period of time, exacerbated by extreme heat and/or wind, and there are other cases when drought spans multiple years, or even decades.
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The Vision 2050 aimed at positioning PNG to be among the top 50 countries on Human Development Index by 2050, while the Development Strategic Plan is aimed at achieving the status of a prosperous middle income country by 2030.
It is apparent that except for Vision 2050 and DSP 2010-2030, all the strategies and plans were focussed on achieving short-term growth and development. But, as directed by the national constitution, we need to focus on long term development for achieving growth, equity and sustainability for the benefit of our present and future generations.
Long term sustainability requires that more attention be paid to the responsible management and use of our natural resources. The nonrenewable natural resources, such as, minerals (gold, copper, etc.) are in fixed quantity. Excessive extraction of these resources led by foreign companies leads to their exhaustion leaving nothing for our future generations. Similarly, our renewable resources, such as, forest, fishery and coral reefs also needs to be used responsibly without exploiting them beyond their critical biological re-generational limits for their sustainability.
PNG has the third largest tropical forest in the world. However, in recent years, this resource has been rapidly declining because of excessive logging by foreign companies, conversion of forest land into agricultural land, and by fires. Similarly, over 500,000 tonnes of fish is extracted every year for domestic consumption and export. Not enough research has been conducted to understand the critical biological re-generational limits of our fish stocks.
PNG has several big and small rivers with potential for the generation of hydro-electricity. It also has tropical sun, wind, bio-gas and geothermal resources to produce clean energy. Yet less than 15% of the population have access to electricity.
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This MTDP III was formulated through a rigorous process involving wide stakeholder consultations at international, regional, national, provincial and sectoral levels over a period of nine months. The Department of National Planning and Monitoring conducted a detailed review of our socio-economic performance over the past 10 years and in past development plans (MTDP I and MTDP II). The success and failures of these plans gave us invaluable lessons as the basis to formulate the MTDP III. To give us better international perspectives of the Plan, we have learnt significant insights from development performances of many countries within the Asia-Pacific Region.
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The PNG Development Strategic Plan (PNG DSP) embodies the principles of the Constitution of PNG and reinforces the fundamental directives required to advance PNG into a middle-income country by 2030.
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The PNG Development Strategic Plan (PNG DSP) embodies the principles of the Constitution of PNG and reinforces the fundamental directives required to advance PNG into a middle-income country by 2030.
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PNG Government's Platform for Action for the first 18 months in office in 2012 and beyond.
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The challenges facing the implementation of REDD+ programs in Papua New Guinea •Discuss issues facing the traditional owners of forestry carbon resources and especially their livelihoods •Research on developing carbon markets in Papua New Guinea.
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This Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) guidebook was developed with an aim of supporting potential investors and project developers with the basic knowledge on the environment surrounding CDM project development in Papua New Guinea (PNG). In addition to general demographic and climate change mitigation information for PNG, the guide provides country specific information from a practical aspect of identifying and developing CDM projects in PNG under the UNFCCC former arrangement - the Kyoto Protocol. The objective of this booklet is to provide guidance to stakeholders investing in PNG. This in turn is believed to benefit the host country as a whole through carbon revenues and associated sustainable development benefits. Although the publication is old, its contents are useful and can be applied under the current Paris Agreement arrangement to guide our work in developing cleaner energy options to reduce our carbon emissions.
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This article examines the political economy of reforestation and forest restoration programs in Asia– Pacific and highlights governance challenges these pose.
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The ultimate objective of the Convention is to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system. The IPCC is a scientific body. It reviews and assesses the most recent scientific, technical and socio-economic information produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of climate change. It does not conduct any research nor does it monitor climate related data or parameters. REDD+, as an idea, is a success story. It has generated excitement about possibilities for getting underway on climate change mitigation quickly and cheaply. REDD+ has also been broad enough to serve as a canopy under which a wide range of actors can grow their own trees. It has been through an intensive process of conceptualisation, design and implementation – even if it is still far from realising its fundamental goal, namely large-scale emission reductions. No idea for saving the world’s tropical forests has generated anywhere near the same excitement and commitment of funds as has REDD+.
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A sector planning retreat for Forestry was held from the 30th of August to the 1st of September 2017. The retreat focused on working towards developing a strategic direction for support to PNGFA from FCPF 2 and a list of actions that will be included in the REDD+ Finance and Investment Plan (RFIP) that is planned to be partially financed through a request to the Green Climate Fund (GCF).
The RFIP is intended to provide a roadmap of actions that will be required to implement the National REDD+ Strategy and to ensure that there is finance in place to support implementation.
In line with the NRS the retreat thus focused on key action areas within the NRS as well as stated objectives of PNGFA including:
Strengthening Sustainable Forest Management, and Monitoring
Increasing PNG’s Wood Supply Capacity (Natural Regeneration, Rehabilitation of degraded lands and Afforestation)
Increasing Downstream Processing and Exports of Forest Products
Based on this the retreat was divided into five information sessions focusing on:
REDD+ and PNG Forestry – giving an overview of the global status of REDD+, the current status of forests in PNG, options for finance, and the future goals of the forest sector.
Progress on strengthening forest management – focusing on efforts to strengthen concessions management and timber legality systems
View from the Private Sector (PS) and Civil Society (CS) – with presentations on the views of the PS as well as CS with a focus on the application of FSC.
Key action areas to reduce emissions – including action on Forest Clearance Authorities (FCAs) and the logging code of practice
Forest plantation development – looking at current strategies and experience of forest plantation development
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REDD+ is moving ahead, but at a slower pace and in a different form than we expected when it was launched at Bali in 2007. This book takes stock of REDD+ and asks a number of questions. How has REDD+ changed, and why? How is REDD+ unfolding in national policy arenas? What does REDD+ look like on the ground? What are the main challenges in designing and implementing REDD+? And, what are the choices that need to be made to enable REDD+ to become more effective, efficient and equitable? Most of the analysis is based on a large comparative research project, the Global Comparative Study on REDD+ (GCS), undertaken by CIFOR and partners.
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This first BUR presents an overview of PNG’s national circumstances relevant to climate change, summary results of the inventory of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks for years 2000 through to 2015, and also presents information related to identified mitigation actions; constraints and gaps; the financial support received in relation to climate change activities and related financial, technical and capacity needs, including a description of support needed and received; information on national circumstances and institutional arrangements relevant to the preparation of national communications on a continuous basis; and information
about the domestic MRV (measurement, reporting and verification).
This BUR also includes the Technical Annex referred to in decision 14/CP.19, paragraph 7, containing the results achieved from REDD+ activities by PNG. The report follows the BUR guidelines for developing countries according to paragraphs 39 to 42 of Decision 2/CP.17 and its Annex III. This first BUR presents an overview of PNG’s national circumstances relevant to climate change amd was submitted to UNFCCC last year in 2018.
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“The diversity, value and importance of our natural environment never ceases to impress me. Yet the level of threats that our unique and fragile ecosystems are facing has also not ceased to concern me. It is for this reason that my officers and I, work tirelessly to ensure that we can have development while maintaining and preserving our strategic natural assets”. Hon. John Pundari MBA, CMG MP