#Climate change worsens DRC's 🇨🇩 challenges - civil war, weak governance & poverty. Resources could power green transition, but prioritizing marginalized populations is crucial.
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Climate and Environmental Security in the Democratic Republic of Congo | DGAP
Climate change is compounding the Democratic Republic of Congo’s tangle of problems – a long-running civil war, weak governance, and deeply entrenched poverty and inequality. The country’s future is of global significance: its vast Congo-basin rainforest is a crucial carbon sink and a haven of biodiversity. DRC’s hydropower potential and its deposits of copper and cobalt could enable the energy transition, but a green resource looms over development prospects. Germany will need flexible and well-aligned national strategies to effectively support peace, human progress, and environmental protection in the DRC while putting the focus on the needs of marginalized populations.

