2016 PNG UPDATE “Sustaining Development (in PNG) beyond

the Resource Boom” Session on Sustainability and Development

DISCIPLINE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & GEOGRAPHY

PNG’s fourth National Goal

• Papua New Guinea’s natural resources and environment should be conserved and used for the collective benefit of all and should be replenished for future generations

A suggested 2016 Vision 2050 reads: To be smart, wise, fair, happy, healthy, maintain

spirituality, maintain cultural diversity, maintain biological diversity, maintain a sustaining environment, have good governance, and have empowerment (especially of women), equality, ‘enoughness’ and well-being by 2050.

We have (modified) Vision 2050

Our road map

We have StaRS

We have StaRS

• Charles Abel calls it A DEVELOPMENT REVOLUTION • Environmental Scientists call it THE SUSTAINABILITY REVOLUTION . • A move to STRONG SUSTAINABILITY

But we do not have as yet

• We have massive developments in roads, sports facilities and hotels in Port Moresby - though schools and hospitals in POM lack many necessary items, and there is much poverty - clear example of inequity and inequality

• Rural areas lack both adequate infrastructure and good service delivery, and despite free education and basic health care – people still lack “enoughness”

• We have poor governance through out PNG • Our Government is vocal on action for climate change but

still overlies on non-renewable sources of energy and extractive industries all of which are UNSUSTAINABLE. And they are the causes of climate change …………….

RESPONSIBLE SUSTAINABLE DEVERLOPMENT IN PNG

Because we still rely on the major causes of

global unsustainability, the causes of the big elephants and many of the

World’s and PNG’s problems

IF WE WANT RESPONSIBLE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN

PNG WE MUST CHANGE (as Charles Abel and STaRS say .. We

need a development revolution

In Environmental Science we see ...

The causes of unsustainability are

most people are

Lacks sustainability ethics and wrong World View

Anthropocentric

Economic system = Capitalism Makes many absurd assumptions about the World and is anthropocentric and exploitative of both people and Nature

Denial Denies, ignores, avoids reality Wants 'too-muchness”instead of accepting “enoughness”

Addicted to Growth

Is sustainability illiterate; refuses to accept 'strong sustainability”

Accepts weak sustainability because it means “business as usual”.

Contents Abstract 1. PNG’s Sustainable Development Strategy 2. Evolution of PNG’s Sustainable Development Strategy 3. Links: PNG’s NGDPs, MDGs, SDGs, HDIs and the 2000 Earth Charter & modified Vision 2050 4. Problems and Blocks on Sustainable Development 4.1 Continual reliance on oil and non-renewal resources 4.2 Fast-tracking Development (2010-2014)

4.2 Fast-tracking Development (2010-2014) 4.3 DEC withdrawing from conservation (1990-2014). NOW BACK!! 4.4 Special Agricultural Business Leases (SABLS) (2010 – now- ?? ) 4.5 Weak commitment to chemical management (1978-2015) ; changing! = “Sustainability solutions to pollution” and better environmental management 4.6 Generic problems ; lack of peace and security; lack of resoures by implementing authority; lack of public involvement; too few NGOs; language problems; again “sustainability illiteracy

4.7 Still “Addicted to Growth .. growth, growth .. An ecological absurdity!!

CHANGES 4.8 CHANGES, CHALLENGES, … 4.9 LESSONS LEARNED .. 5. StaRS 6 Need for education and training in sustainability awareness 7. The BSD programme at UPNG 8 REVIEW: Changes, challenges and lessons 9. CONCLUSIONS and the beyond … 10. THE SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY. PNG becomes the Costa Rica of the Western Pacific.

HISTORY OF ESG AT UPNG & THE EVOLUTION OF THE BACHELOR OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME BSD .

HISTORY OF ESG AT UPNG & THE EVOLUTION OF THE BACHELOR OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME A1. HISTORY OF BSD 2015 – now and mission and objectives A2. PROGRAMMES 4 year UG and 2 year continuing and PG and proposed BSc BSD A3 NEW LLB BSL in 2017 A4 B-CHARM A5 MAINSTREAM ESG and BSD (booklets available) A6 Selected courses: ISD, PSD, SPAM, GREEN, SIPT

A7 DETAILS on our new course for providing an economics for StaRS = Green and Ecological Economics .. Include a detailed comparison between green and ecological economics vs Neo-Liberalism and conventional economics A8 DEFINITIIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY and SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. Distinguishes between STRONG (ECOLOGICAL) and weak ECONOMIC definitions of sustainability; and shows how understanding of sustainability bis dependent upon WORLD VIEW.

A9 BOOKS and electronic sources of information including texts on pdf.. Mowbray sells a 8GB (K15) and a 16GB (K20) flash drive which contains information for use by all ESG and BAD students including the best on Environmental Science, Sustainable Development , Green and Ecological Economics, Pollution Science and Sustainability Science and a vast listing of PNG documents including Vision 2050 and StaRS. .

IES The study of Environmental Science focuses

on fostering the transition to a sustainable future for Papua New Guinea

……… involving '... a process which aims to create an

ecologically and economically sustainable socially equitable society'.

IES The study of Environmental Science focuses

on fostering the transition to a sustainable future for Papua New Guinea

……… involving '... a process which aims to create an

ecologically and economically sustainable socially equitable society'.

• COME JOIN US IN THE

• SUSTAINABILITY REVOLUTION

• Thank you

• David Mowbray ESG / BSD

Environmental Science & Geography Discipline

ESG some staff

Prof Chalapan Kaluwin,

Professor and Academic Head

First professor in ES and ESG, and Discipline leader since 2005.

Prof David Mowbray

Adjunct Prof in ES and BSD

Here since 1977

Dr Albert Nita,

Albert was the second staff member in ES

From 1992 to 2008

Mr John Duguman

Senior Lecturer John was third ES member staff from 1995 to now

All our courses aim at

Contributing to a Sustainable Future

Or we shall lose this ….

Conserving our biodiversity

and cultural diversity

And our landscapes

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