Strengthening the capacity of decision making on REDD+ in Papua New Guinea

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UNDP

Significant international climate finance opportunities are imminent. Pending final policy design, new international climate finance frameworks (e.g. the New Market Mechanisms under the UNFCCC, and Carbon Offset Reduction Scheme for International Aviation - CORSIA) will present substantial opportunities for Papua New Guinea (PNG) to tap into and support sustainable resource management projects in its forestry, agriculture (and fishery) sectors – providing jobs and economic growth, boosting food security, and helping meet international and domestic climate change commitments e.g. its Nationally Determined Contribution under the UNFCCC Paris Agreement, and those contained in PNG’s National REDD+ Strategy and Medium Term Development Plan III (for example)