PNG’s GHG emissions reduction
plans focus largely on Reduced
Impact Logging (RIL), sidelining the
benefits of conservation. It also leaves
many to conclude that PNG’s largely
foreign-owned logging industry and
pro-logging advisors retain undue
influence over the GoPNG and its
forest and REDD policies.
For the GoPNG to provide an
alternative to continued destructive
logging and deforestation, which has
shown no real benefit to its people,
it must embark on a new way to
engage with REDD policy at home
and abroad.
For prospective international REDD
donors, the greatest way to support
the people of PNG and achieve
the objectives of REDD is to insist
on legislative preconditions to
accompany REDD funding.