Historic agreement signed to protect world's largest tropical peatland (Brazzaville Declaration)

“Erik Solheim (UN Environment): "Conservation and development can go hand in hand." Tim Christophersen (UN Environment): "Peatlands have grown over the course of 10,000 years, and they can be destroyed in a matter of days." Congo minister Arlette Soudan-Nonault: "Destroying the peatlands would be a grave assault on the Paris Agreement and the climate." DRC, Republic of Congo and Indonesia jointly signed the declaration to protect peatland "equivalent to three years of global greenhouse gas emissions.”

Locator: press release body

Subjects

Congo Basin Peatlands (Cuvette Centrale)