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Initial Meeting of the CCDA NDC Core Group led by the MRV and National Communication Division. NDC Partnership Focal Point Mr. Alfred Rungol who is the current Acting General Manager of the Division led the meeting with presentations from NDC Coordinator Ms. Debra Sungi and Assistant Coordinator Ms. Jacinta Kull on PNG's NDC Partnership Implementation Plan. Presentations covered Elements to be captured in the NDC ICTU and Accounting, Indicators and Tracking of Progress and a Way Forward for CCDA NDC Implementation for 2020 submission.
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This year's United Nation's Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP)25 will be held in Santiago, Chile. The venue Ciudad Parque Bicentenario is a 250 hectares urban project area where the former Santiago International Airport used to be located. Its privileged location, connectivity and size make it a great place to host a world-class event such as the COP25, with an average daily attendance estimated at 25,000.
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Climate change is the defining issue of our time and now is the defining moment to do something about it. There is still time to tackle climate change, but it will require an unprecedented effort from all sectors of society. To boost ambition and accelerate actions to implement the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, UN Secretary-General António Guterres will host the 2019 Climate Action Summit on 23 September to meet the climate challenge. The Summit will showcase a leap in collective national political ambition and it will demonstrate massive movements in the real economy in support of the agenda. Together, these developments will send strong market and political signals and inject momentum in the “race to the top” among countries, companies, cities and civil society that is needed to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.
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The Government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is committed to supporting responsible and sustainable development as outlined in the PNG Strategy for Sustainable and Responsible Development (StaRS) and further elaborated through PNG’s Third Medium Term Development Plan (MTDP-3). A key element of this strategy involves how PNG can take action to both address the country’s vulnerability to climate change and minimize the country’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions as part of global efforts to prevent dangerous levels of climate change with Vision 2050 setting out ambitious goals for action including a 50 per cent reduction in emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2050 with further details of proposed approaches to achieving these goals included within the PNG’s Climate Compatible Management Policy.
To support this action, PNG needs to have a clear short to medium term approach to climate change that cuts across sectors and not only helps to reduce the negative impacts of climate change but also seeks to support “win-win” opportunities that both reduce emissions and help PNG’s economy grow and flourish.
The Climate Change and Development Authority (CCDA) in partnership with the Department of National Planning and Monitoring (DNPM) are working to lead this process through the development of a number of strategic documents that will help inform and guide PNG’s approach. These include:
- Development of a Roadmap for the Implementation of PNG’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC);
- Development of a Roadmap to Achieve SDG 13 – Action on Climate Change within the context of PNG;
- Finalisation of a National REDD+ Finance and Investment Plan (RFIP) to support the implementation of PNG’s National REDD+ Strategy 2017 – 2027.
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The training will be on the Basics of Climate Change Science and its Application and on tools and methods for climate change scenarios and projections. Below is an outline of the content of the training.
Basics of Climate Change Science and Application
Concepts and definitions: climate change and adaptation
Integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk management
Tools and methods for climate change scenarios and projections
Basics of climate change modeling and projections
Information sources
PNG climate trends and projections (Regional, National and Sub-national)
The information provided will be very useful information for all as we continue our roles in progressing climate change adaptation and mitigation activities in the country for our people.
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CONCEPT AND OBJECTIVES
With the adoption of the Paris Agreement Work Programme at COP-24 in December 2018, the “rule-book” of the Paris Agreement has been agreed. The “rule-book” includes a set of decisions by the Conference of Parties serving as the Meeting of Parties of the Paris Agreement (CMA) providing further guidance relevant for the preparation and communication of NDCs.
By 2020, all Parties are requested to act on their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), by either preparing new ones or updating their current NDCs. The NDCs communicated by 2020 will become the basis for the climate regime under the Paris Agreement, including for the tracking progress of implementation and achievement of NDCs under the enhanced transparency framework through their biennial transparency reports to be submitted no later than by the end of 2024, as well as for the first Global Stocktake which will be held in 2023. Ideally, these NDCs reflect, to the extent possible, the guidance adopted in Katowice. In this context, the Technical Hands-on Training on Information for Clarity, Transparency and Understanding (ICTU) and Accounting for NDCs will seek to improve the understanding of further guidance from CMA in Katowice and enhance the technical capacity of national expert to apply them to their NDCs. These will be achieved by:
- introducing the CMA decisions relevant for NDC preparation, communication and accounting (4/CMA.1, 9/CMA.1 and 18/CMA.1) and discussing the implications of these decisions in the context of new/updated NDCs by 2020 and beyond;
- providing first-hand experience of how to apply guidance relating to ICTU, accounting and tracking of progress through hands-on exercises;
- assessing capacity needs related to the implementation of the guidance relating to ICTU, accounting and tracking of progress
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GGGI will be conducting a two day regional consultation for Southern Region in Alotau from the 9th - 11th July, 2019.
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Meeting Agenda
1.Review of the Grievance Redress Mechanism Draft
2.Endorsement of the comments matrix on GRM
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Session One: Enhancing Climate Information Services Gaps and Opportunities in Climate Information Services
Topics to be discuss are on ;Capturing Where People Aren't Looking - in Enhancing Climate Prediction Information, Dynamical, Statistical and Traditional Climate Forecasting in the Pacific Island Countries: What We Do Now and Challenges for Future, Developing a Regional Drought Outlook Product Using Seasonal Forecast Information, AgroClimate for Climate –Smart Agriculture, What Can European Climate Services Offer to the Energy and Water Resource Sector.
Session Two: - Improving Water and Food Security with Climate Information and Services
Under this session will have discussions on; Global Crop Yield Forecasting using Seasonal Climate Information from a Multi-model Ensemble, Incorporating CO2 Responses into Crop Simulation Models, Adaptation Options for Climate Sensitive Development, Impacts of Climate Change on Turkey’s Special Water Resources, Use of Climate Information in Nepal for Water and Food Security and Water, Climate Change, and 4th Industrial
Session Three: Linking Climate Information and Decision-Making
Topics of Closing Action-ability Gaps of Climate Services for Farmers, Agriculture Planners and Advisory, Robust Decision Making Process under Scientific Uncertainty on Climate Change, Linking Climate to Water Security: Case Studies from the Western Desert of Egypt and the Ganges Delta Region of Bangladesh, Climate Change, Variability and Sea Level Changes Poses Long Term Disasters in Achieving Responsible Sustainable Development in the APEC and Pacific Island States, Connecting Users’ Needs for Climate Information with Climate Services by Using Economic Benefit Evaluation: The Experiences in Chinese Taipei will be discuss under this session.
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Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) have identified disaster management awareness as a priority area needed to help communities prepare for natural disasters. The senior level Emergency Preparedness Working Group (EPWG) of APEC will hold its 14th meeting on 17-18th September in Kokopo Papua New Guinea in which participating economies will present on ideas to effectively address the information gap and to find solutions to prepare communities on disaster management at the community level. The EPWG is required to report to the APEC Meeting in November in Papua New Guinea on this priority. To provide feedback to the EPWG, the Government of Papua New Guinea, through CCDA as co-chair of the APEC EPWG, invited USAID Climate Ready, SPREP, PNG Media Council, and broadcasting station FM100 to partner on organizing a national workshop, from 1-3 October for media stakeholders to improve their understanding of disaster management and climate change for effective media reporting.
The expected outcomes of the workshop are:
To improve understanding of local media in Papua New Guinea of technical information on disaster management and climate change;
To improve ways of communicating technical disaster management and climate change information that best inform decision makers;
To improve quality, quantity and transparency reporting of disaster management and climate change issues of the APEC meeting by local media; and
To promote ownership of disaster management, climate change and environment media information and drive the issue of disaster management and climate change forward and beyond APEC
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Theme: Advancing multi-hazard early warning systems for emergency preparedness and DRM. This is intended to cover effective data collection and analysis for warnings, the communication and delivery of warning messages, and the localization of warnings based on lessons learned from the major natural disasters that have hit the economy including the Volcanic eruptions in Rabaul (1994), the Aitape tsunami (1998), Cyclone Guba (2007), the El Nino droughts of 1997-1998 and 2015-2016, and the disaster experiences in other economies. PNG proposed that outcomes might include policy statements and recommendations to ensure that early warning systems facilitate the monitoring of multiple hazards, and the sharing of best practices in the use of digital technology to collect, store, and analyze monitoring and warning data.
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The Climate Change and Development Authority (CCDA) hosted visiting International Experts from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations in the country during a one week workshop at the Airways Hotel from the 25th to 29th March, 2019. The workshop was attended by country technical experts from key stakeholders within five different sectors in Energy, Industrial Processes, Agriculture, Forestry (Agriculture, Forestry, and Land Use – AFOLU) and the Waste Sector including CCDA technical staff. The one week programme started with official speeches followed by presentations from the 5 different sectors.
The project is aimed to assist developing countries including PNG to develop and maintain sustainable and robust national Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory systems by effectively applying the 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines to serve as a basis for effective implementation of the transparency framework under the Paris Agreement in reporting on our GHG emission levels.
The project will also;
promote peer-to-peer learning and it will provide opportunity for tailored capacity building for our local experts on GHG inventory management systems, including institutional arrangements, for external expert assessment.
support capacity-building and system enhancement processes, and this means to facilitate quality assurance of our GHG emission estimates.
identify critical and immediate improvements to be addressed before the official submission of the country’s next national report(s), such as National Communication, Biennial Update Report and National Inventory Report (NIR).
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The course is facilitated by the University of the South Pacific and sponsored by the USAID Ready Project. The course is provided in blended mode with face to face contact with the trainer and online study. First five day face to face session is scheduled from 1-5 April and will start at 8.30am on Monday 1 April at the Crown Hotel, Waterfront, Konedobu, Port Moresby.
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The Government of Papua New Guinea (Go PNG) through the Climate Change and Development Authority (CCDA) with support from the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), is conducting a Media Training on Reporting Forest and Carbon Emissions in Papua New Guinea. The Media Training will be held in Kimbe, West New Britain Province from the 8-12 April 2019.
The aim of the Media Training is to support Papua New Guinea’s REDD+ Objectives under UNFCCC,by enhancing knowledge, understanding and communications with all relevant stakeholders on REDD+ and enhance capacity to implement REDD+.
Training Objectives
Training of REDD+ journalists strengthens the scope of communication that will efficiently enable transfer of information, knowledge and reporting tools to benefit all levels of governance and decision makers in PNG.
It helps enhance journalistic skills.
It helps build the capacity of climate journalists and communicators for effective communication of usually jargon-laden and highly technical REDD+ information to relevant REDD+ stakeholders and the general public.
The field visits provide and train journalists by helping them to understand the national REDD+ context and better improve on reporting especially on the forestry issues in PNG.