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Dialogue on Coffee & Climate Change

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An agriculturalist and researcher say coffee can bring in cash for both economic purposes as well as generating revenue in the carbon space of Climate Change.

Mawe Gonapa, a Ph.D. student in a short presentation told local government authorities coffee packs carbon in its leaves, stems, and even beneath the earth using its roots, thus offering benefits as a cash crop.

“Coffee has the potential to mitigate climate change through carbon sequestration, and if we come together and make our position clear on how to involve coffee in the carbon trade, create relevant guidelines to get it into the carbon trade, and have the carbon credit certified,” Mr. Gonapa said.

The Ministry of Environment Conservation and Climate Change initiated the meeting with Mr. Gonapa and is pleased with the information and discussions knowing it may be a prospect for the future.

“We have been talking about it (Climate change), we have been going to conferences, what’s needed from us now is action, coffee carbon trade may be our answer,” First Secretary to the Minister for Environment Conservation and Climate Change Motsy David said.

The officers from Both authorities under the Environment and Conservation and Climate Change Ministry – Climate Change Development Authority (CCDA) and Conservation and Environment Protection Authority (CEPA) who were present, noted successive tree planting campaigns were unstructured and failed to provide an accurate number of trees that were already planted.

Mr. Gonapa added, “There is a huge potential (for coffee) to improve livelihoods as farmers will get additional income, improve conservation and bio-diversity when coffee is grown with other trees”.

Other tree species have been used in the tree planting exercise over the years, this is the first time the government agencies are eyeing coffee as an alternative.

First Secretary to the Environment Conservation and Climate Change Minister, Motsy David said, “The Minister responsible upon his return from the UN-sanctioned Conference of Parties (COP) 27 will initiate dialogue with Minister Coffee and other related ministers to progress this”.

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Steps To Accessing Climate Funding

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Steps are now afoot to ensure the country has access to the climate funding that’s available for climate change preparedness and adaptation available to affected smaller island nations like Papua New Guinea.

Lead agency Climate Change Development Authority together with its partners and stakeholders concluded a two-day validation work on the final draft of the National Adaptation Plan which is the first step to achieving the cause.

“There are two sides to climate change, you have the mitigation and adaptation. Climate change adaptation is mainly to do with enhancing the capacity of people at this time with the event of climate change with its intensity and frequency of the adverse effects happening to us,” General Manager Adaptation and Project Division Jacob Ekinye said.

He added, “We have to reduce the level of vulnerability and exposure of our people to those effects and we have to build their resilience so that they are able to cope with the adversities”.

“Under the Paris Agreement article, 79 under the climate change manage act section 74 provides for a national adaptation plan. Even you have heard of the global climate change facilities like the climate investment fund, especially Global Climate Fund (GCF), in order to solicit funding from those financing institutions; this is the box you have to tick,” Mr Ekinye said.

The Adaptation plan will be the first for the country in terms of its strategies and actions needed to deal with climate change impacts and meet international standards.

“This National Adaptation Plan, it has taken us two years, GCF funding we got if from a resource pool called the Reediness Finance to the tune of US D 1.7 million (to deliver this plan) and UNDP is our delivery partner,” Mr Ekinye said.

He added, “It’s not business as usual anymore, we have to factor in the climate change element in every development planning process”.

The CCDA is committed to ensuring this document is in place before the year-end.

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