Climate change is now affecting every country on every continent, and mitigating climate change and its impacts will require global commitment, enormous resources and innovative ideas and processes. Danish consulting engineers contribute to the fight against climate change when working with national and local governments to adapt to and mitigate the significant impacts of climate change, including changing weather patterns, rising sea levels and extreme weather events. We work with national and local governments to strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters, to integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning, and to institutional strengthening and capacity building on climate adaptation, mitigation and impact reduction, etc.
PROJECT: CLIMATE RESILIENCE TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA
With 85 percent of Papua New Guinea’s 7 million people relying on agriculture, the hazards caused by climate changes are severely impacting peoples' livelihood. NTU’s team is providing a range of services, including technical assistance, capacity building and climate impact assessments, to help determine best-case practice for climate proofing the country’s rural bridges and coastal assets. In the provinces of Bougainvillea, East New Britain, Manus, Milne Bay and Morobe Provences, the vast deterioration of the costal assets is currently affecting roughly 13,000 households. In order to ensure their future safety, climate resilient solutions will have to be applied along the coast. NTU’s team is designing and implementing appropriate engineering standards to accommodate the impact of climate change.
COUNTRY: PAPUE NEW GUINEA
COMPANY: NTU INTERNATIONAL A/S
SECONDARY GOALS: 9, 11 & 16