Accessing Climate Finance in the Pacific: PNG as a Case Study

Due to its overarching impact across all sectors, climate change is a most critical issue challenging most Pacific Island Countries from accessing climate finance and achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Its impacts will impede economic growth, challenging poverty elimination, degrade food security, and increase hunger and malnutrition. Adaptation and mitigation actions are necessary in order to alleviate the inevitable impacts of climate change in the future. Given this, PNGs development agenda, how PNG responds to climate, and how PNG works with the global community to pursue the UN Sustainable Development Goals in PNG, are systematically linked. Any roadmap for how PNG should pursue the SDGs, particularly in regards to climate change, should have a strong national system and coordination mechanism to access more climate finance and build on existing efforts and align as closely as possible with existing planning and development initiatives. This research will employ a range of qualitative methods to assess how climate finance is carried out within an organizational setting by using PNG as a case study and will explore options on how best efforts can be strengthened to ensure these climate finance resources reach the most vulnerable people in the communities.