Developing options to protect the peatlands and livelihoods of peatland-dependent communities in the central Congo Basin
A 12-month research project by Professors Simon Lewis and Ifo Suspense Averti, funded by the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment “The opportunity still exists to protect the peatlands in a largely intact state, possibly drawing on climate change mitigation funding, which can be used not only to protect the peat carbon pool …