This Act provides a framework for the development and implementation of measures in Papua New Guinea to combat climate change in accordance with the Kyoto Protocol and other international agreements and programmes. The Act establishes the Climate Change and Development Authority, the National Climate Change Board, a Screening Committee and the Climate Change and Green Growth Trust Fund. It provides with respect to climate change related project agreements, i.e. agreements between the Authority, the customary owners of the land and forest resources and the project proponent relating to an Agreement on REDD, REDD+, CDM or other Voluntary Carbon Offset Projects and any future climate change emission reduction mechanisms agreed to by the government that will facilitate for sustainable development and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.; The Act primarily concerns the limitation of use of targeted greenhouse gases"
Climate Change (Management) Act 2015 (No. 19 of 2015).