These are the resources from the Focus on Rainforests in Africa and COP27 talks on 7th July 2022
Recordings:
The Congo Basin Rainforest – second largest in the world after the Amazon – Dan Swinton, Greenpeace
The Great Green Wall, a project of the African Union to plant a new forest across the whole width of Africa – Natasha Norori-McCormac, Tree Aid
Some insights into plans for COP27, Nov 2022, in Egypt and Oxfam’s focus on finance for Loss and Damage caused to countries in the Global South – John McLaverty, Oxfam
Links
Greenpeace https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/
Tree Aid https://www.treeaid.org/
Oxfam https://www.oxfam.org.uk/education
Petitions
Letter wriiten by Elizabeth Wathuti, Kenyan Environmental Activist, to Alok Sharma and Sameh Shoukry ahead of COP27
https://actions.oxfam.org/great-britain/climate-justice-solidarity/petition/
Rainforest Alliance: Do not sacrifice Congo’s rainforests to the oil industry!
https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1261/drc-do-not-sacrifice-congos-rainforests-to-the-oil-industry
Reports
Footing the bill: fair finance for loss and damage in an era of escalating climate impacts
https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/footing-bill-fair-finance-loss-and-damage-era-escalating-climate-impacts
CongoPeat – Past, Present and Future of the Peatlands of the Central Congo Basin
https://congopeat.net/
Congo Basin peatlands have trapped years’ worth of carbon. How can they be protected?
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/14/1073215461/congo-basin-peatlands-have-trapped-years-worth-of-carbon-how-can-they-be-protect