Scientists launch research effort at COP28 for Congo rainforest

The DRC had the second highest rate of tree cover loss in the world last year after Brazil, according to Global Forest Watch

03 December 2023 - 19:33 By Jake Spring

Hundreds of scientists at the UN COP28 climate summit on Sunday launched a research coalition aimed at correcting a historic lack of information about the Congo River basin and its rainforest, the second largest in the world...

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