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Adaptation & Projects Division

Adaptation to the adverse effects of climate change is vital in order to reduce the impacts of climate change that are happening now and increase resilience to future impacts. The cost (both monetary and casualties) of climate-related hazards will continue to increase annually unless we initiate cost effective adaptation measures to reduce the intensity, frequency, magnitude or severity of a risk.

The Adaptation and Projects Division seeks to establish climate projection systems that can inform and guide appropriate actions to prevent or minimise the damage caused by climate change thereby ensuring development is climate proofed, or take advantage of opportunities that may arise. To identify gaps in existing policies, guide policy formulation process and present policy options in various sectors that are required to protect PNG from the adverse impacts of climate change.

This is a summary of the main priority result areas of the Adaptation and Projects Division:

 Key Result Areas:

  • Execution of the Adaptation Actions for the 9 priority areas (coastal and inland flooding, agriculture yielding, land slide, malaria and vector borne diseases, climate induced migration, water and sanitation, coral reef decay, cities and climate change)

  • National Adaptation Plan (NAP)

  • Integrate climate change Adaptation into othersector and sub national level plans

  • Ensure proper coordination of all other adaptation projects

  • Improve and strengthen coordination with all stakeholdersthrough Adaptation Technical Working Committee (ATWC)

  • Establish information system to manage and share knowledge products and lessons learnt

  • Foster closer relationship and engagement with private sector

  • Do an inventory of all major adaptation activities in the country

  • Establish a Small Grant Facility

  • Development of Concept Notes on Adaptation Priority Areas

Priority Actions:

  • Develop a National Adaptation Plan (NAP)

  • Set a Small Grant Facility

  • Mainstreaming climate change into other sub national levels

Climate change has no boundaries and cuts across all sectors, hence must be mainstreamed and implemented through the policies of other sectors, in particular, agriculture, transport, water resources, land-use and environment. Also, it aligns with the national goals of poverty alleviation and sustainable development. It is in this context that all stakeholders including government, private sector, development partners, non-government organizations and the civil society in general must work together to address this emerging issue of Climate Change.

REDD+ & Mitigation Division  

REDD+ stands for Reducing Emission from Deforestation and forest Degradation, (+) conservation, sustainable management of forests and carbon stock enhancement. The “plus” in REDD+ is an important addition as it includes the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks, therefore going beyond only deforestation and forest degradation. REDD+ is an effort to reduce carbon dioxide emissions (17.4% in 2004) and increase carbon sequestration in the forestry sector. The UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) Conference of the Parties (COP16, Cancun 2010) decision encourages developing Country parties to contribute to reducing GHG emissions in the forest sector by undertaking REDD+ activities.

The PNG REDD+ programme is the action taken by government and stakeholders to guide PNG through the REDD+ readiness phase and to successfully access carbon financing mechanisms. These efforts recognise global efforts in reducing GHGs.

Forests role in Climate Change

Assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change calculated that the forestry sector contributes 17.4% GHGs. Most of the

17.4% of the GHG are from forest removal (deforestation).

Forests as carbon sink

Forests mitigate climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Trees take in carbon dioxide to make their food and build new plant

cells. This intake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere makes forests a carbon sink. The removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is also termed “carbon sequestration”. We can support the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by increasing forest areas, planting more trees, and by providing healthy environment for trees to regenerate.  We can help increase carbon sequestration by:

1. Agroforestry farming growing crops amongst trees or planting trees with crops.

2. Reforesting areas where forests have been recently cleared.

3. Afforesting areas which has been lying as degraded non-forest lands for a long time .

4. Planting in suitable trees in degraded forest areas to restore the forest structure.

Forests as a carbon reservoir

Because plants use carbon dioxide to build their plant cells, forests are like a big container of carbon. Carbon is stored in all parts of a tree, in the plants growing on the forest floor, in organic matter lying on the ground and in the soil. This carbon storing capacity of forests make it a carbon reservoir or carbon pool.

Forests as a carbon source

The removal of forests will release vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. This makes forests a potentially large

carbon source. We can help reduce the release of carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere by:

  1. Preventing the conversion of forestland to other land use types (like completely clearing a forest area for agriculture).
  2. By reducing the degradation and destructive utilisation of our forests (e.g. practice less destructive logging practices).
  3. By setting aside valuable forests areas for conservation.
 

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The four current General Managers are:
 

Managing Director, Mr. Ruel Yamuna

 

Adaptation & Projects GM Mr. Jacob Ekinye 

 

REDD+ and Mitigation – GM Ms. Gwen Sissiou 
MRV and National Communication(Care-taker GM) Ms.Gwen Sissiou.

The Corporate Services Division GM position is yet to be filled in.