PNG carbon trade chief defends departmental actions

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Updated June 16, 2009 16:19:12

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 news agency is reporting it held discussions with firms 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.

Presenter: Firmin Nanol
Speaker: Dr Theo Yasause, Executive Director of PNG Climate Change and Carbon Trade Office's

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