NDCP Climate Finance Expert – Papua New Guinea (Technical Specialist, Environmental) Home-based
NDCP Climate Finance Expert – Papua New Guinea (Technical Specialist, Environmental) Home-based
The NDC Partnership is a global coalition of countries and institutions collaborating to drive transformational climate action through sustainable development. In 2015, the world endorsed the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Nations signal their commitments to the Paris Agreement through Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) – each country’s strategy to cut its own greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience against the negative effects of a changing climate. The Partnership advances the goals of the Paris Agreement by bringing together nearly 200 countries and institutions in new ways to accelerate NDC implementation and enhance ambition over time. The Partnership’s work through 120 partners supporting almost 80 countries produces many examples of impact, lessons learned and ideas for the future. The Partnership is governed by a Steering Committee, co-chaired by two country representatives. The Partnership’s work is facilitated by a Support Unit based at World Resources Institute in Washington DC and the UNFCCC Secretariat in Bonn, Germany. UNOPS supports the NDC Partnership and its Support Unit through the Water, Environment and Climate (WEC).
Country Context
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a member of the NDC Partnership and submitted its Second NDC to UNFCCC in December 2020. PNG also launched its NDC Implementation Plan and Roadmaps for the electricity, agriculture, and Forestry and Other Land Use sector in 2021, which is used as the guiding document for implementation and resource mobilization. In early March 2025, PNG held its first national consultation for the launch of the update of NDC 2.0 for the submission of PNG NDC 3.0 later during 2025.
PNG is one of the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change, such as rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and biodiversity loss. PNG has also committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions annual emission from deforestation and forest degradation due to agriculture expansion and commercial logging is reduced by 10,000 Gg CO2 eq comparing to 2015 level, conditional on receiving adequate and predictable support from the international community. To achieve its climate goals and enhance its resilience, PNG needs to mobilize and access climate finance from various sources, both domestic and international, public and private.
To deliver on these commitments and strengthen climate resilience, PNG must mobilize substantial climate finance from both domestic and international, public and private sources. Central to these efforts is the establishment of a national climate finance mechanism – the Climate Change and Green Growth Trust Fund – as provided for under Section 37 of the Climate Change (Management) Act 2015. This Fund will be the principal vehicle for mobilizing, managing, and disbursing climate finance in alignment with the country’s evolving policy landscape, including its NDC Implementation Plan and guided by the Climate Investment Planning and Mobilization Framework (CIPMF) – a methodology jointly developed by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the NDC Partnership to support countries in strengthening national climate finance ecosystems.
Despite strong political commitment, PNG faces a range of structural barriers to operationalizing the Fund, including gaps in legal frameworks, institutional capacity limitations, fiduciary requirements, and limited readiness to engage private capital. The Climate Change and Development Authority (CCDA), as the national climate change focal point, seeks technical assistance to design and operationalize the Fund in line with international best practices and PNG’s policy priorities.
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