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Republic of Congo to get US$65 million from the Central African Forest Initiative. Will it stop deforestation? Not a chance

Posted on 13 September 201928 October 2019

Last week, the President of the Republic of Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso, flew to Paris in a hired Boeing 787 Dreamliner, one of the most luxurious planes in the world. Le Figaro estimates that a one-way flight from Brazzaville to Paris would cost about US$500,000. Needless to say, Sassou Nguesso’s wife, Antoinette, travelled with him.

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Yes, the Amazon on fire. Yes, it burns every year. Yes, this is a problem. No, REDD won’t solve it

Posted on 27 August 201928 August 2019

So far this year, more than 72,000 forest fires have started (or been set by cattle ranchers) in Brazil’s rain forest. That’s an 80% increase over the same period last year. But the amount of CO2 emitted from the fires is lower than in 2010 and significantly lower than in the early 2000s.

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Environmental organisations call on Democratic Republic of Congo not to open up its rainforest to loggers

Posted on 8 March 20188 March 2018

Last week, José Ilanga the Director General in charge of forests at the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development in the Democratic Republic of Congo, announced that plans were underway to lift the country’s 16-year-old moratorium on new logging concessions. Today, more than 50 environmental and human rights organisations have written to key donor governments…

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Saving rainforests by cutting down trees? Controversy over logging plans in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Posted on 18 July 201714 January 2022

Controversy over Norway and France’s logging proposals in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo threatened by Norway-backed logging plans

Posted on 16 May 2017

Since 2002, a moratorium on new industrial logging concessions has helped protect the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Now the government of DRC wants to open up its forests to more logging. As much as 35% of the country’s forest could be threatened with destruction.

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