An Overview of National Climate Change Strategies and Priorities in Papua New Guinea

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Office of Climate Change and DevelopmentMinistry of Climate Change and Development

PAPUA NEW GUINEA PRESENTATIONResponding to Climate Change in the Pacific:

Moving from Strategy to Action

VARIGINI BADIRADirector - Adaptation

[email protected]

12-13 October 2010



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PNG’s Climate-Compatible Development Strategy

Strategic framework Economic Development▪ Achieve GDP per capita of USD 3,000 by

2030 as set out in our Vision 2050

Mitigation

▪ Reduce emissions of greenhouse gases

by at least 50% by 2030, driven mainly by

abatement measures in land use, land-use changes and forestry

▪ Become carbon-neutral by 2050 investing

in low-carbon infrastructures today

Adaptation

▪ Reduce vulnerability to climate change-

associated risks

– Gradual hazards (e.g., vector-bornedisease)

– Event-driven hazards (e.g., landslides,

flooding)

SOURCE: PNG Climate-Compatible Development Strategy, OCCD analysis



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Sectors

▪ Power

▪ Transport

▪ Oil and Gas

▪ Cement

▪ Industry

▪ Power

▪ Transport

▪ Oil and Gas

▪ Cement

▪ Industry

CC - Hazards



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Clear mitigation and adaptation priorities have been identified.

Pilots and programs

▪ Review of agriculture leases

▪ Locate palm plantations on

non-forest lands

▪ Afforestation/reforestation

programs

▪ Secondary forest management

▪ Reduced impact logging

REDD+

▪ Mangrove planting to protectcoastal villages

▪ Coastal early flood warning

system

▪ Coastal engineering/infra-

structure

▪ Inland flood warning

Adapta-

tion

Review agricultural leases

▪ Review policy process and legal

status of agricultural leases

▪ Develop sustainable alternative

land-use models in order to

revoke existing leases

Coastal early warning system

▪ Alert affected communitiesdirectly via SMS

so they have time

to avoid danger.

▪ Automate detection of sea level

changes that cause flooding

Examples

SOURCE: PNG Climate-Compatible Development Strategy, OCCD analysis

▪ Renewable energy for Port

Moresby, the national capital

▪ Rural electrification via

rehabilitation of existing and

new micro hydro plants

▪ Energy efficiency measures

Low-

carbon

growth



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Energy: Renewable energies offer a tremendous opportunity both for

grid connected areas and off-grid rural electrification

PNG has access to abundant renewableenergy sources

▪ Grid connected power: Significant

power shortages in all 3 major grid

areas requiring large diesel

generator backup capacity.

Hydro: Tropical weather with high

precipitation levels provide

continuous hydro power supply in

the mountains mainland.

Geothermal: PNG is located on the‘ring of fire’. Many active volcanoes

on the mainland and the islands.

One already used by Lihir gold mine

Biomass: Forests and agriculture

provide ample biomass supply. Palm

oil mills are developing first CDM

projects for methane-to-electricity.

Solar: Coast lines, islands and

remote areas with high solar

radiation provide ideal opportunities

for stand-alone photovoltaic

systems.

▪ Rural electrification:

Majority of population

does not have access

to electricity.

▪ Electricity Market Policy: New electricity

policy to be approved by Cabinet soon to

provide policy framework for privatesector investments into generation

and off-grid rural mini-grids.

SOURCE: OCCD



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Enabling Investments – incl. Health, education, land reforms



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▪ 1-2 years

SOURCE: Low-carbon growth technical working group

Low-carbon growth initiatives

Rural electri-

fication –

Bialla hydro

Objective

Responsible

institution Proposed location

▪ Rehabilitate and

expand hydro from

400kW out of potential 1500kW

▪ West New

Britain provincial

government▪ Hargy oil palm

▪ PPL

▪ W. New Britain ▪ TBD

▪ Build new 40-80

MW runoff hydro

▪ PPL

▪ NCDC

▪ DNPM

▪ Dev partners

▪ Naoro Brown ▪ USD ~50m

estimated, actual

costing after

feasibility study(Oct 2010)

▪ Rehabilitate andexpand hydro from

80kW to 1MW

▪ New Irelandprovincial

government▪ Western Power

▪ Lihir SDP

▪ New Ireland ▪ USD 200,000proposed by

Lihir SDP for rehabilitation,

TBD for

expansion

▪ Installingcapacitor banks

to reduce peak

load by ~250

KVar

▪ Damai▪ PPL

▪ SomareFoundation

Building

▪ USD ~15,000preliminary

estimate from

PPL

Proposed budget

Rural electri-fication –

Sohun hydro

Port Moresby

hydro

Energy

efficiency

▪ 1-2 years

▪ 3-4 years

▪ 6 months

Timing and next

steps

PRELIMINARY



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Corporate Plan 2011-2013 Interim Action Plan



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The OCCD’s governance structure has been put in place.

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1 OCCD Executive Director reporting directly to Prime Minister

Advisory

Board

Ministerial

Committee

Prime Minister &

Ministry of

Climate Change

and Development

National Climate Change Committee

chaired by Chief Secretary including

Secretaries of all key departments

Office of Climate Change and

Development1

Technical working

group REDD+

Technical working

group Adaptation

Technical working

group Low-Carbon

Growth

SOURCE: NEC decision 54/2010, OCCD analysis

Technical working

group

Consultation

Forestry sub-WG

Agriculture sub-WG

MRV sub-WGEarly Warning

System

Development

Partners

Climate ChangeTask Force



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Issues and Challenges• Effective mainstreaming of Climate Change Response

through capacity building and training

• Private sector participation through incentive creation

• Commission research and establish an informationdata centre for climate change

• Strengthen reporting mechanism and systems through

legislations

• Mainstreaming into budgetary and planning process

• Funding constraints / Coordination of funding• Climate Change Act

END – Thank you

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