CIFOR - Forestry-Climate Change-Biodiversity (FCCB) nexus: ''Our Forest, Our Future'' Contract related to: CIFOR - Forestry-Climate Change-Biodiversity (FCCB) nexus: ''Our Forest, Our Future'' - Climate Change, environment degradation and the loss of biodiversity are an interlinked and existential threat to PNG, Europe and the world. Unprecedented climate hazards such as frequent and intense drought, storms, heat waves, rising sea levels, and etc, cause dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affect billions, especially those living in the most vulnerable situations.Because of PNG's high level of vulnerability, climate change action plays an important role in its policy agenda. It is included in PNG's Visions 2050 and its 2014 National Strategy for Responsible Sustainable Development (StaRs). In 2020, PNG submitted its Enhanced Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).PNG hosts one of the world's largest primary forest and 7% of the world¿s biodiversity, and are increasingly at risk through subsistence and commercial agriculture, and illegal logging. The sector faces major challenges in governance and law enforcement.FCCB is on top of EU's domestic and global agenda, notably the external component of the EU Green Deal as well as EU policies on forestry, climate change adaptation and mitigation, emission trading, carbon capture, use and storage, and biodiversity1, combined with global agreements, the Paris Agreement, the conclusions of COP 26 and the global biodiversity framework.Responding to EU's and PNG policy priorities, aligned with the EU-PNG MIP 2021-2027 (Priority Area 1) and taking specificities (customary and community landownership) of PNG's FCCB space into consideration, this Team Europe Initiative (TEI) "Our Forest, Our Future" - uses a comprehensive, integrated and strategic approach to help transform PNG's FCCB policies, capacities and actions towards a green economy, as foreseen in PNG's national development plans, Vision 2050 and medium term development plan (MDTP III, 2018-2022). The ambitions of EU's medium - to long term engagement in this sector builds on the possibility to extend and enhance this FCCB phase 1 action with funds from the corresponding priority area in phase 2.The overall objective of this action is to support a development model (at national as well as pilot subnational and community level) that reconciles forestry, biodiversity and climate change with sustainable, inclusive and gender-responsive green growth and jobs, by pursuing the following three Specific Objective¿s (SO):SO 1: Effective implementation of evidence-based FCCB policies, governance and institutional frameworks;SO 2: Increased knowledge and awareness on FCCB issues among PNG¿s population;SO 3: Increased inclusive and gender responsive green public and private sector investments and deforestation-free livelihoods.Across the three SO's, the strategic axis of the action are (a) transforming institutions, policies, capacities and governance, (b) concrete implementation at pilot community levels and (c) investments, through the use of EFSD+. Each of the three SOs offers significant opportunities for the enhanced use of digital tools.In line with the Environmental Priorities of the EU for NDICI programming in Pacific Region, it further strengthens the EU's and PNG's commitment to address the triple forestry, climate change, biodiversity crises and contribute to the global climate change agenda. This TEI, mobilizing support and engagement from other European actors, aims to support transformation change, making the EU and its Member States (MS) the partner of reference in the area. Building on EU's extensive experience and lessons learnt in PNG, this action, together with other EU/EU MS funded projects, will demonstrate EU's leadership in land stewardship models, carbon neutrality, biodiversity conservation and development of deforestation - free commodities.