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This publication intends to assist the process of community development by identifying issues that might need further policy research and program intervention. It contains selected papers from a three-day Community Transformation Conference which was held at the National Research Institute in June 2009 in which community development partners came together to share and learn from each other and to devise best practices for transforming local communities. I thank the National Research Institute for taking the initiative to contribute to community development policy research

Climate change is a very complex issue that cuts across many boundaries. It includes the involvement of human beings and population growth in the exploitation of natural resources, which, in mm. has impacted on sustainable development measures in the social, environmental, and economic sectors. This has caused an inbalance in energy distribution in the world, which has led to atmospheric pollution and a resultant increase in temperature, as a measure of energy balance. Before one can understand the context of climate change and policy development for Papua New Guinea, it is necessary to briefly explain the background to the expressions and terminology of the greenhouse gases and global wanning.