Africa's "green superpower"

The central African country of Gabon is one of only a few countries that are net sequesters of carbon.¹

Around 85% of Gabon’s land is covered in carbon-absorbing rainforest, an area about the size of the UK. It’s tropical forests are part of the Congo Basin rainforest. Known as the “lungs of Africa” the region is thought to be the planet’s most important forest ecosystem after the Amazon.

The ‘natural capital’ locked up in Gabon’s its forests are likely to be vital to the growth in nature-based carbon credits, “carbon neutral” energy, and a driver of the country’s prosperity (see Natural capital markets: Putting a price on nature).

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