Letter on DR Congo's proposed lifting of the moratorium on new industrial logging concessions

Carbon Market Watch alerts international partners to the DRC's plans to lift the moratorium on new logging concessions and secretly revise its Forest Code. The organization argues these moves, including the awarding of three concessions covering 6,500 square kilometres, threaten environmental and climatic stability, specifically peatswamps, and undermine international initiatives like CAFI and REDD+. It calls for the immediate suspension of forestry funding until a transparent process is established.

• The DRC government plans to lift the moratorium on new logging concessions and is secretly revising the Forest Code without stakeholder involvement, which is expected to weaken controls on logging activities.
• The lifting of the moratorium and the Forest Code revision threaten several international forest protection and carbon programs, including CAFI, the Carbon Fund Mai Ndombe jurisdictional REDD programme, the Forest Investment Programme, and the USAID-backed CARPE programme, as well as the National REDD+ Strategy and Investment plan.
• Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development Amy Ambatobe has already awarded three concessions covering 6,500 square kilometres in violation of the existing moratorium, potentially threatening globally important peatswamps.

APA

Carbon Market Watch (2018). Letter on DR Congo's proposed lifting of the moratorium on new industrial logging concessions. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/letter-on-dr-congos-proposed-lifting-of-the-moratorium-on-new-industrial-logging-concessions/

Chicago

Carbon Market Watch. Letter on DR Congo's proposed lifting of the moratorium on new industrial logging concessions. 2018. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/letter-on-dr-congos-proposed-lifting-of-the-moratorium-on-new-industrial-logging-concessions/.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |author=Carbon Market Watch |title=Letter on DR Congo's proposed lifting of the moratorium on new industrial logging concessions |date=21 March 2018 |url=https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/letter-on-dr-congos-proposed-lifting-of-the-moratorium-on-new-industrial-logging-concessions/ |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{carbonmarketwatch2018letter, author = {{Carbon Market Watch}}, title = {{Letter on DR Congo's proposed lifting of the moratorium on new industrial logging concessions}}, publisher = {Carbon Market Watch}, year = {2018}, month = mar, url = {https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/letter-on-dr-congos-proposed-lifting-of-the-moratorium-on-new-industrial-logging-concessions/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }