Congo Basin: Earth’s African ‘lung’ is it most resilient - The Congo Basin – the world’s second-biggest rainforest – resists extreme heat and drought and deserves the spotlight at COP26
Yet researchers are still just discovering amazing facts about it. A recent multicountry, the first of its kind, has discovered that the Congo Basin is the world’s most resilient rainforest to extreme heat and droughts, extreme weather events caused by El Niño in 2015-2016. Rainforests in West and Central Africa were able to continue to function as carbon sinks.
Similar conditions in the Amazon and Borneo rainforests led to a reduction and even a reversal of this capacity.Six countries house the Earth’s African lung — Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo , Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Republic of the Congo. They are all in Central Africa, many are fossil fuel-dependent, and tend to rank poorly in human development, governance and transparency indices.
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