Papua New Guinea

In December 2008, the low-lying Carterets Islands were badly damaged by king tides and violent storm surges. Nicholas Hakata, a local youth leader and community representative, explains that he and his family have been surviving on mainly fish and coconuts, and battling the swamp mosquitoes that have brought malaria.

With the local government's food aid ship coming once or twice a year, the relocation plans are equally as slow. Hungry and unwell, the islanders have set up a relocation team and have begun a series of urgent tasks to move families closer to security.

Krangket Island is located within the boundary of Madang Township, Papua New Guinea. It has a total population of about 3,500 inhabitants comprised of four clans. The island was only recently connected to Madang town’s electricity supply through a submarine cable network.

Find attached a press release on a court injunction taken out by the PNG Eco-Forestry Forum against the PNG Office of Climate Change and Lands Department over issuance of a carbon trade license and special agricultural lease respectively over Kamula Doso forest concession which is currently a matter before the courts.

Press Release OCC&ES injuncted over carbon deals in Kamula Doso

Ms Effrey B. Dademo
Program Manager
PNG Eco-Forestry Forum Inc.

Papua New Guinea stands out clearly as an island country in the south pacific ocean that is vulnerable to ongoing impacts of climate change among other small island nations. Impacts of climate change are real in PNG as we have seen in recent times that, there has been a rise in sea levels covering the atolls near Bougainville and Siassi island; habitat loss for plant and animal species near Sepik river; and sea level rise covering coastal parts of Wewak and New Ireland.

Greetings from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea!

18/02/09 Pacific, Papua New Guinea, Tavurvur writes:
Dear Sir/Madam,

I have just recently been directed to your site by one of my readers who thought it would be a great idea for me to forward on to you an article I wrote about REDD in Papua New Guinea (PNG).

You can find the article here on my blog, Tubuans & Dukduks:
Rainforest Politics & the Carbon-Credit Trade in PNG: An Essential Introduction

08/11/08 Pacific, Papua New Guinea, Damien Ase writes:
I am from Papua New Guinea and currently we are working on climate change campaign. It would be good to network and share information on climate change.

14/11/08 Pacific, Papua New Guinea, Damien Ase writes:

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is one of the island nations in the Pacific that is beginning to experience the effects of Climate Change (C/C). Although the negative effects of C/C are affecting the lives of the people here, the people are ill prepared for it (C/C) and are caught by surprise. The vast majority of the people about 90-95% of the population don’t understand what C/C is. About 60-70% of the population could have access to a few information about Global Warming as there was less or no awareness of that nature in PNG.

A little information about C/C in PNG.

04/07/08: I am original from Papua New Guinea but I now live in Samoa, South Pacific.

The debates so far on climate change are centered around weather and how it is affecting plants and animals and the environment. These are very important issues and they ought to be brought to this forum.

In the Pacific the issue that is not so obvious is the effect of loss of land due to the sea level rise. Land is very important to and for humanity without which humanity, or for that matter, all other living things cannot conduct the business of sustaining their lives.