Nupan is committed to saving the rain forests of PNG, by supporting the Landowners in creating voluntary carbon trading projects dual verified to the Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Alliance and Voluntary Carbon Standards protocols. These projects are company to company transactions, supported by the inalienable rights given to the Landowners under Customary, Commercial, and Parliamentary Law in PNG. The people own the land, the people control the land, and it is the people's right to decide to save their rain forests, and not to log. The revenue from these projects will provide funding for health and education projects, food and water supply, and communication, transport and infrastructure development. Every project is secured with binding agreements that provide for the people to work in the forests to both preserve their cultural heritage, while developing new skills and awareness to sustain their projects for forty to fifty years into the future. This is about the people of PNG, and their birthright to decide how they will develop their family, their tribe, their village, and their country, in their own time, and in their own manner. At the end of the day, the rest of the world will directly benefit from every successful project the people of PNG create - by saving their rain forests for generations to come.
Kirk William Roberts, CEO, Nupan (PNG) Trading Corporation Limited.

m2m

Date: 3 Sep 2010 Comments:0 - post a comment

Important Announcement

Contrary to a report released to the Australian Stock Exchange and the shareholders of m2m corporation limited on the 2nd. September, 2010, m2m will not have any access to any project producing carbon credit offsets from projects controlled by Nupan Trading Corporation Limited in PNG, Fiji, Vietnam, Laos, or any other Asia Pacific region.

This decision was made by the project proponents at the time m2m cut of project funding to Nupan without warning last April, 2010, causing grievous commercial stress to the projects.

If any shareholder of m2m requires any further information with respect to the current standing of the relationship between Nupan and m2m, please email Kirk William Roberts at consultant88@gmail.com

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East Pangia timber harvest stopped

Date: 16 Jul 2010 Comments:0 - post a comment
THE state has been ordered to stay clear
of the East Pangia Forest Management
Area, at least for the time being.
National Court Judge, Les Gavara-Nanu
issued the restraining order against the
National Forest Board, the PNG Forest
Authority, Forest Minister Belden Namah
and Madang Timbers on Tuesday.
The decision follows after Timothy
Tepi, on behalf of members of the 277
Incorporated Land Groups from the East
Pangia area applied for a judicial review
of the decision by the state to enter into
an agreement with logging company,
Madang Timbers, to develop the East
Pangia Forest Management Area.
The matter will return to court at a
date yet to be set but in his ruling Justice
Gavara-Nanu restrained the National
Forest Board from making a recommendation
to Mr Namah to grant a timber
permit to Madang Timbers.
The court also restrained Mr Namah or
his agents from inviting Madang Timbers
to apply for a timber permit as well as
issuing a timber permit to the logging
company, pending determination of the
substantive matter.
The judge also restrained Madang
Timbers from applying for a timber permit
and furthermore restrained the company
from moving anywhere near or
into and taking possession of the East
Pangia forest and conducting logging or
any other form of forestry development
activities on the land and the forest.
Yesterday Mr Tepi expressed relief over
the National Court decision and said his
people were prepared to return to court
when a date was set.
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WHY WE FIGHT

Date: 12 Jul 2010 Comments:0 - post a comment

WHY WE FIGHT

Yet again, Nupan has come under fire from bloggers and anonymous critics, claiming that Nupan is still doing something “wrong”.

If this is so, we welcome anyone to post a reply to this article, answering any of the following questions specifically.

Why is it wrong to fight for the rights of traditional landowners to decide not to log their beautiful tropical rain forests in favor of commercialized carbon trading?

Why is it wrong to attempt to get a commercialized carbon trading project up in PNG?

What is wrong in trying to get CCBA verification for a PDD for a Project?

What is wrong with trying to get a dual verified VCS PDD for a Project?

What is wrong with taking a huge commercial risk for some 6 years in an attempt to get the first dual verified VCS / CCBA carbon trading project up in PNG?

What is wrong with continually trying to find the right combination of Project supporters and marketers to enable the Project Proponents – the indigenous people who own the land, and own the projects – to sell their dual verified Voluntary Emission Reductions (or Voluntary Carbon Units) for the best commercial price available at the time?

REDD does not exists today.  REDD may not exists for years.  The rain forests are being attacked every day by rapacious loggers, who not only turn the rain forests into moonscapes, but threaten the traditional livelihood of the people who rely on the rain forests for their survival.

Right now, today, people are being killed in project areas because the process is taking too long, and the loggers are gaining confidence that it may never happen.

What is wrong with trying to save the rain forests of PNG?

When Nupan is successful, and manages to get a dual verified VCS / CCBA carbon trading project thorough the excruciating process that at times seems to be aimed at preventing this from ever happening, the people will get a revenue from carbon trading for the next 40 years – it will literally change their life!

What is so wrong about this outcome?

Can you look the people of PNG in the eye, and tell them that they don’t deserve this opportunity to change their prospects, save their rain forests, and give their children the best possible future that they can?

Can you?

Nupan can’t, and that’s why we will continue to fight.

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Landowner denies

Date: 9 Jul 2010 Comments:0 - post a comment
A LEADING figure in the Kamulo Doso carbon trade project in Western Province yesterday denied that he was “taken at gun point” to support the backers of the carbon trade project last year.
Abilie Wape, a director of Tumu Timbers Limited, the land owner company involved in the project,, instead alleged that he was bribed to claim on the SBS television program that he was held at gunpoint.
Mr Wape was forced to issue the denial after the United Nations Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC) brought up the matter about the SBS television program when the Kamulo Doso project was undergoing verification under the voluntary carbon standards and climate, community and biodiversity alliance.
“What happened,” he said, “is that I requested a police escort to the car, because of unrest in the village caused by loggers.
“I have already apologised to my village and to the board of Tumu Timbers some months ago, and for the UNFCC to bring this up again at this time, in an attempt to create unrest, is both mischievous and irresponsible,” Mr Wape said.
He said as a director of Tumu Timbers, he was working towards finishing the first carbon trading scheme in PNG to be dual verified under the VCS/CCBA protocols.
Managing director of Tumu Timbers, Mathew Kulimbao confirmed the statement by Mr Wape.
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NUPAN AND M2M RELATIONSHIP FINALIZED

Date: 30 Jun 2010 Comments: 1
Nupan announced today that the partial funding facility provided by m2m
corporation limited had been finalized, with Nupan left ready to complete
the first two Projects. From 5 PM today, m2m will only have a passive, non-
commercial relationship.
Mr. Kirk Roberts announced that due to the tremendous interest shown
by overseas companies in saving the rain forests in PNG, and helping the
Landowners and people realize their ambitions to trade carbon instead of
logging, it would now be possible to look at developing multiple projects
simultaneously.
One such company is run by Brian P de Thorpe Millard, President and CEO
of GTE Sustainable Energy Inc., USA and founder of the Global Tan Energy
group of companies www.gteglobal.org with offices in Boston, USA; London,
United Kingdom; Paris, France and Izmir, Turkey.
It is expected that the scientific verifiers will again be in PNG at Nupan’s
Project sites to complete the work required for the CCBA mid July. The VCS
work will complete soon after. This will give Nupan the first dual verified
Carbon Trading project for tropical rain forests under the VCS and CCBA
protocols in the world.
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PNG Forestry Carbon Credits Newsletter – Week 1, June 2010

Date: 2 Jun 2010 Comments:0 - post a comment

“Rainforests, Waterfalls & Rainbows”

THERE is no doubt anymore about Papua New Guinea’s ability to create a rainforest-based carbon trading scheme. While the PM attended a critical meeting in Olso, to argue the case for commercial support for saving the forests, the PNG Nupan Science Team were finalizing the first successful verification of the tropical rainforest specific VCS methodology in Washington.

As reported widely by Reuters from Oslo – “Today, the market values forests more destroyed than standing. We must find a way to
value forests more alive than dead,” said Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Michael Somare. “To push people to protect forests, as well as to attract private sector financing, it is essential to set up a global price for carbon emissions, either via a market or a carbon tax.” The methodology in now in the last stages of being dual verified, and the first PDD using the basis of the methodology is up for public comment, with the expectation that credits (VER’s or VCU’s) will be registered with the Markit Environmental Registry (formerly TZ1) in July. And these carbon credit offsets will be all about “rainforests, waterfalls and rainbows”. We have written before about the enormous social benefits the landowners and people of PNG will enjoy from changing from a logging economy to a carbon trading economy, now it’s time to consider the environmental issues. In PNG, when the foreign companies log, they literally bulldoze the rainforest back to a moonscape. It can take up to 100 years for the forests to naturally regenerate, as there is no real
sustainable logging project in the whole of PNG. What you see in the satellite photos is natural growth about half a meter high, which slowly evolves back into a forest of sorts. So we are not offering you just a carbon credit offset – we are offering you “rainforests,
waterfalls and rainbows” – that we believe will become the two most powerful symbols in the Climate Change Debate. If you or a Client of yours has the slightest interest in the “next big thing” in carbon trading, we welcome your enquiry. And who ever gets the “rainforests, waterfalls and rainbows” message out to their Clients first, will own the best marketing positioning statement any
company with a social responsibility could make. Will it be you? Will it be one of your Clients?
For more information on specific projects please don’t hesitate to contact us at
nobarriers88@gmail.com
The rainforests of PNG await you!

NL11 June 2010 - pdf of the newsletter

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Officials in Washington market carbon projects

Date: 26 May 2010 Comments:0 - post a comment
Kirk Roberts’ Nupan (PNG) Trading Corporation Limited science team arrived in Washington yesterday to finalise the requirements for the PNG specific methodology for the Kamula Doso and East Pangia rainforest carbon trading projects. Three years in the making, it represents the first methodology created specifically for the tropical rainforests of PNG, Mr Roberts claims. “What makes this achievement special is that through the application of this methodology, production design documents can be created for each project and any other forest based carbon credit project within PNG with landowner approval and support. “The benefits are huge with the rainforests saved from logging and landowners get revenue from commercialised carbon trading year after year for the next 40 years. This will help the landowners in project areas to improve their health services, education, communication, transportation and infrastructure to help build PNG. The landowners win twice as they get revenue from the carbon credits in the world commercial market and in three to five years time, their projects will be rolled into whatever new scheme that eventuates, he said.
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PROJECT DESIGN DOCUMENT FOR VALIDATION AT CLIMATE, COMMUNITY & BIODIVERSITY ALLIANCE (CCBA)

Date: 16 May 2010 Comments:0 - post a comment
Kamula Doso
Improved Forest Management
Carbon Project
April 2010
Tumu Timbers Development Limited
DRAFT FOR CONUSLTATION
For commercial-in-confidence reasons, some sections such as the Harvest Plan, Financial Plan, and other commercial sections have not been included in this posting.  For further information please leave a comment – click here

FOREWORD from page 2
Greeting from Tumu Timbers Development Limited, owned by the Incorporated Land Groups of ‘Kamula Doso’ of the Western Province of PNG. As the first ILG to undertake to have an Improved Forestry Management Carbon Trading Project dual verified by the Voluntary Carbon Standard and Climate Community Biodiversity Alliance. The importance to our people of this project cannot be understated. We will save our rain forests from logging, for generations to come. We will institute health programs, education, and fresh water projects, as well as infrastructure development to enable our people to prosper and have a better future. We will also be able to institute training programs within our forests, to provide our children with the skills to look after our forests for the next hundred years. And in our own small way, by saving our rainforests from logging, we will help fight climate change by reducing the amount of noxious gases vented into the atmosphere.

Thank you for your support.
Wisa Susupe
Chairman, Tumu Timbers Development Limited.
May, 2010.
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LANDOWNERS WIN TWICE WITH CARBON TRADE

Date: 14 May 2010 Comments:0 - post a comment

“Roberts”, of Nupan (PNG) Trading Corporation Limited explained today that any Landowner participating in the voluntary Carbon Trade now would “win twice”.

“It’s really simple.  Today there is no compliance market for forest carbon credits, only a voluntary opportunity.  So any project we have under development will immediately benefit from selling their credits into the voluntary market today.  And the big thing is, if the compliance market recognizes forest credits in four or five years time, the Landowners can then sell into that market.  Because their credits will have been dual verified under the VCS and CCBA protocols, they will be immediately accepted into the compliance market, giving PNG a huge jump on the competition from other countries.”
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Wealth from land, answer to poverty

Date: 13 May 2010 Comments:0 - post a comment

Creation of wealth out of customary land is the answer to PNG’s poverty and social issues…

download the full news article from the post courier.: wealth from land – PC Thu-13-05-2010

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