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Papua New Guinea will be well represented at the annual international climate change negotiations, the Conference of Parties or COP 27 in Egypt next month. Climate Change and Development Authority’s acting Managing Director,  William Lakain echoed this during a recent weeklong training of key government agencies who will be attending the meeting. These government agencies are CCDA, the National Energy Authority, the PNG Forest Authority, the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the Department of Works and Highways, the Office of the State Solicitors, the Department of National Planning and Monitoring, and the Department of Prime Minister and NEC among other key agencies. The week-long negotiation training ended successfully preparing participants from key government agencies for the annual COP 27 scheduled for November 6 to the18. The training enables participants to understand the negotiations’ history and players, how the country’s positions are formed, documentatio

I really woke up to the problem when I arrived at a beach in the Philippines (I wrote about this on our sister site ) where we found heaps and heaps of plastic brought in from the ocean by the waves. We decided to spend an hour every day collecting the plastic, did that for a week and ended up feeling like we didn’t make any difference really. I did some reading and realized; this phenomenon isn’t just about the Philippines… on our travels we have seen this in many other places, including S.E. Asia (Bali, Krabi). How Many Marine Animals Are Killed by Plastic Each Year? Well, that seems to be a hard question to answer accurately. There are estimates though, according to UNESCO : one million sea birds are killed by plastic each year; one hundred thousand marine mammal in general are killed every year; Industrialized humans have produced a LOT of plastic since the ’50s: more than eight million metric tons (half of which was manufactured in the last thirteen years) and much of which is di