Papua New Guinea"s Strategic Program for Climate Resilience (SPCR) overall outcome will be the enhancement of its resilience to climate change through improved access to resources, knowledge, and tools and climate resilient infrastructure at the national, sectoral, district, and community levels. These are prerequisites for effective social development, food security and overall poverty reduction. The SPCR will support achievement of these pillars for climate resilient development.

This report provides the outcomes of in-country consultations on Pacific adaptation to climate change that were held in 2006. Section 1 outlines the urgency for adaptation to climate change in small island developing states. Section 2 provides situation analysis of climate change in Papua New Guinea. Section 3 analyses selecting priority sectors for adaptation interventions, as well as the impacts of climate change within these sectors.