Tropical forests hold 30% of global carbon stocks and are vital to a stable climate as well as crucial sources of biodiversity and livelihoods to indigenous peoples and other forest-dependent communities.

However, there are no economic incentives to protect and restore forests and the carbon they contain.

In PNG, there is 22 million hectares of untouched indigenous tropical rainforests with 50-million carbon stocks estimated in 2018.

Currently there is no financial incentives to protect and restore the forests and carbon they contain.

Logging, timber harvesting and land use for commercial agriculture are the major deforestation and forest degradation activities.

 Papua New Guinea have lost many of the great stands of tropical rainforest through the clear-felling type of logging which is going on at the moment. Over recent years we have seen this type of clear-felling associated with the SABLs (Special Agricultural Business Lease), where land was leased to overseas companies for 99 years in the hope that they would develop oil palm plantations.

The SABL is now banned and much of the land leased as a SABL has now been returned to the traditional owners. But still the timber is being taken out.

In some areas of clear-felling oil palms were planted and are now reaching the stage where oil palm oil can be produced. But now the owners face the situation where the oil palm market is over-supplied and many producers of oil palm oil will not take oil from plantations that have been planted on recently cleared primary rainforest.

In order to combat this trend, Travel4Green (T4G) PNG, is a not for profit private project that initiated by Howarig Traders (PNG local SME) to provide a decentralized autonomous digital platform for REDD+ payments distribution to sustain indigenous forests in PNG.

T4G PNG project is a registered REDD+ client with the Government of Papua New Guinea through PNG Climate Change and Development Authority (CCDA).

T4G PNG has up to eight (8) pilot REDD+ project sites in WHP, SHP, Madang and Central Provinces.

In order to help these communities mobilize their interest to participate in the REDD+ options which the PNG government is currently working on REDD+ policy framework and institutional capacity, we are now calling to individuals, organizations, businesses, groups and states who have the moral obligation and feel the need to offset their carbon emissions or to fund an environmental course or to save the the world's remaining "lungs" - contact us for pre-compliance REDD+ offsetting initiative via email at: contact@t4gpng.org