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PAPUA NEW GUINEA (Southeast Asia)
CO2 Emissions p.capita (tonnes) UN	World Ranking CO2 Emissions (p.capita) UN	EPI World Ranking  Climate Change	TI World Ranking Corruption	TI Asia Ranking Corruption	Ratified Kyoto Protocol (year)
0.41	43	61	151	22	2002

Compiled by Green Assembly. Data sourced from the UN,Transparency International,and EPI

PAPUA New Guinea (PNG)  is a large independent country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands (the western portion of New Guinea is a part of Indonesia).

PNG is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, and is one of the most diverse countries on Earth, with over 850 indigenous languages and at least as many traditional societies, out of a population of just under 6 million.

It is also one of the most rural, with only 18 per cent of its people living in urban centres, many of them in the country’s capital Port Moresby.

The country is also one of the world’s least explored, culturally and geographically, and many undiscovered species of plants and animals are thought to exist in the interior.

The majority of the population live in traditional societies and practise subsistence-based agriculture. The PNG legislature has enacted various laws in which a type of tenure called “customary land title” is recognised, meaning that the traditional lands of the indigenous peoples have some legal basis to inalienable tenure.

The country’s geography is similarly diverse and, in places, extremely rugged. A spine of mountains runs the length of the island of New Guinea, forming a populous highlands region. Dense rainforests can be found in the lowland and coastal areas. Papua New Guinea gained its independence from Australia in 1975.

Papua New Guinea is highly vulnerable to exploitation for the purposes of logging and cultivating oil palm for the international markets of the profit-crazed biofuel industry. Investors from Malaysia and Indonesia have funded many of the most destructive developments, aided and abetted by corrupt officials in Papua New Guinea, along with their friends in Singapore, Australia, China and elsewhere.

Their interest in self-enrichment has been put so far ahead of the global environment that you could wonder if they had ever heard of global warming. But in fact Papua New Guinea ratified the Kyoto Protocol in 2002; therefore, claiming ignorance of the effects of deforestation on climate would not be admissible in a court of law.

Papua New Guinea is one of the most corrupt countries in the world with a global ranking of 151. It doesn’t get much worse than this, anywhere on the planet.

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