BBC World Service – Africa Daily, Can carbon trading save Africa’s largest rainforest?

“We don’t have clear legislation (for) the carbon market that can guarantee the rights of local communities and indigenous peoples.”

The Congo Basin forest is known as the “lungs of Africa” ​​due to its ability to absorb carbon dioxide – about 1.5 billion tons per year.

It also provides food and income to indigenous and local populations in the six countries it covers.

And this week at the COP 29 climate conference, it is being discussed as an example of a carbon sink that could help the world prevent further global warming – and become part of the global trade in carbon credits.

So why, given that forests urgently need protection from logging, do some activists say carbon trading is NOT the solution?

Host: Alan @Kasujja
Guests:
Ewe Bazaiba, Minister of Environment of the DRC.
Bonaventure Bondo, forest campaigner for Greenpeace Africa.

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