Hi,
Environmental protection is a challenging issue for all the countries around the world. Would you say this issue is deemed of significance in Congo?
Is the country going green through initiatives like waste management and selective sorting programs, renewable energies, public transport, green awareness campaigns and so forth?
How do you personally commit to improve the environment in your daily life?
We would greatly appreciate if you could tell us more about the various local initiatives for sustainable development in Congo.
Many thanks in advance!
Kenjee
Environmental protection in Congo
Kenjee
10 March 2016 12:03:12
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hibbgran
14 March 2016 14:04:30
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Kenjee,
Frankly, the type of initiative you refer to is either absent or seen to be of little significance in Congo.
I see no evidence of programs of waste management or selective sorting, other than those that are practiced by international companies through their internal policies and procedures.
In addition to the lack of programs directed at sustainability of environment and energy use, there is significant evidence of continuing over-exploitation of natural resources, particularly of timber. A continual stream of trucks carrying immense trunks of rain-forest timber finds its way to the port in Pointe Noire, from where they are exported.
My own contribution to attempt to improve the environment is through employee education programs directed at informing people of the costs of environmental degradation and pollution, and the benefits of sustainable management of resources such as water.
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