The Papua New Guinea Government submits PNG’s Second Biennial Update Report (BUR2) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). 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 BUR2 provides an update of the BUR1 submitted in 2019 and 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 2017. It also presents information related to identified mitigation actions including description of domestic MRV arrangements as well as support needed and received.
The BUR2 also includes the REDD+ Technical Annex referred to in decision 14/CP.19, paragraph 7, containing the results achieved from REDD+ activities by PNG. In addition to this, the BUR2 submission includes a stand-alone National Inventory Report.
