Independent State of Papua New Guinea
Ambassador Robert G. Aisi
Papua New Guinea is a Non-Annex I Party to the Kyoto Protocol, having ratified the accord on March 28, 2002. Robert G. Aisi is Papua New Guinea’s Ambassador to the United Nations. The following is excerpted from Ambassador Aisi’s address to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Seminar of Governmental Experts in Bonn, Germany, on May 17, 2005.Let me open by highlighting a portion of the UN Secretary General’s report, titled In Larger Freedom, where he notes, "The greatest environmental and developmental challenge of the twenty-first century will be that of controlling and coping with climate change." I…
