New Guinea

New Guinea (Tok Pisin: Niugini; Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Indonesian: Papua, historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island and, with an area of 785,753 km2 (303,381 sq mi), the largest island in the Southern Hemisphere. Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, it is separated by the 150-kilometre (81 nmi; 93 mi) wide Torres Strait from the Australian continent. Numerous smaller islands are located to the west and east. The eastern half of the island is the major land mass of the independent state of Papua New Guinea. The western half, known as Western New Guinea or West Papua, …

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COP28: COP28 UAE (Climate) · 3 December 2023 English

The COP28 Declaration on Climate, Relief, Recovery and Peace was formally launched at the Dubai summit on Sunday 3rd December. The document, passed by 70 governments and 39 international organizations, …

Norway 54. Palau 55. Papua New Guinea 56. Paraguay 57. Republic of the


COP28: COP28 UAE (Climate) · 2 December 2023 English

y the COP28 Presidency joined with the World Health Organization to announce a new ‘COP28 UAE Declaration on Climate and Health’ (the Declaration) to accelerate actions to protect people’s health …

Oman 82.Pakistan 83.Palau 84.Panama 85.Papua New Guinea 86.Paraguay 87.Peru 88.Philippines 89.Poland


IRENA: International Renewable Energy Agency · 1 December 2023 English

Renewable energy

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Belarus North Macedonia Indonesia Lebanon Papua New Guinea Uzbekistan 29 Implementation of support Bosnia Kiribati Palau Cambodia Iran Kyrgyz Republic Papua New Guinea China Iraq Lao PDR Saudi Arabia Fiji Jordan Lebanon States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu ORT TO S TRENGTH EN CLIMATE AC TION GWh PAPUA NEW GUINEA GDP per capita Total greenhouse gas emissions


WHO: World Health Organization · 1 December 2023 English

repository).15 In the Western Pacific Region, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu have limited civil registration


COP28: COP28 UAE (Climate) · 1 December 2023 English

COP28 UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems and Climate Action. Issued on December 1st 2023.

Pakistan 89.Palau 90.Palestine 91.Panama 92.Papua New Guinea 93.Peru 94.Philippines 95.Poland 96.Portugal


RSIS: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies · 1 December 2023 English

Climate Change and Geopolitics in the Blue Pacific By Danielle Lynn Goh SYNOPSIS Climate change has consistently been articulated as the greatest threat to the region by the leaders of …

signed a defence cooperation pact with Papua New Guinea (PNG). It also pledged more aid to the region


ADB: Asian Development Bank · 29 November 2023 English

The Asian Development Bank’s Community Resilience Partnership Program (CRPP) aims to strengthen climate resilience in Asia and the Pacific through scaling up investment in climate adaptation, explicitly addressing the nexus …

labor force in Pakistan and 70% in both Papua New Guinea and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (ILO countries, such as Cambodia, Nepal, and Papua New Guinea still have predominantly agrarian societies,


IRENA: International Renewable Energy Agency · 29 November 2023 English

renewable energy, weather

CF are also seen in Central America and Papua New Guinea (more than 16%), while a moderate decline in linked to the reductions of wind power CF in Papua New Guinea and Northern South America. For consistency the


ADB: Asian Development Bank · 28 November 2023 English

This paper reviews the overall micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise landscape in Asia, including the challenges and constraints faced by enterprises in physical (offline) and online markets.It explores the unique …

Bhutan India Maldives Nepal Sri Lanka Fiji Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands 5 technological change leading


GI-TOC: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime · 28 November 2023 English

The global illicit economy in 2022: A year of division 25 finding 5 The influence criminal actors exert has strengthened since the pandemic Regardless of structure and their subsequent criminal …

in absolute terms. With the exception of Papua New Guinea, which is However, a closer examination reveals in South-eastern Asia and Latin America. The New Guinea (8.50) and the Solomon Islands (8.0) high price methamphetamines in recent years. This also Papua New Guinea is also home to Oceania’s applies to Tonga, which world while confirming the particularly for Papua New Guinea, which scored results of the 2021 Index, foreign relatively high overall continental score for New Guinea remained the least resilient country in resilience


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