Appointments to PNG climate change office cause furore
Firmin Nanol, Port Moresby
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Papua New Guinea's Climate Change Office has been accused of engaging two international brokers to sell carbon credits without landowners consent.
The international Reuters newsagency is reporting it held discussions with Earth Sky and Climate Assist.
But the Climate Change Office says it has not yet authorised any international firm to sell carbon credits from forests in the country.
The PNG Climate Change Office's Executive Director Doctor Theo Yasause says forest owners alone will decide where and whom to sell their carbon credits to.
He says only Earth Sky on the invitation of landowners from PNG's East Sepik is involved in a project to preserve forest to get involved in the carbon trading scheme.
Mr Yasause says the Climate Change Office has stopped dealings with Climate Assist.
He says they have not authorised them to sell carbon credits nor asked for funding from them.
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