The National Climate Compatible Development Management Policy aims to build a climate resilient and carbon neutral pathway for climate compatible development in Papua New Guinea. The Policy is to address the following gaps: a) Rapid increase in extreme weather events, rising sea levels, floods, landslides and malaria, and their knock-on social economic effects in recent years; b) Increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from all economic sectors in particular the land-use, land-use change and forestry sector, despite the fact the country can reduce these emissions through more sustainable forestry and agricultural practices; c) Significant challenges to human development and service delivery, especially in rural areas, where our rich cultural, biological and environmental resources are under threat as never before; and d) Lack of effective dissemination and utilisation of “clean” technology and “adaptive” standards; and poor coordination of climate-related policies, which hamper sustainable development.