Africa Climate Security Risk Assessment - Central Africa

The region also includes mountains to the northwest, on the border between other large water bodies, such as Lake Tanganyika, Nigeria and Cameroon, and especially to the east, the second largest and deepest lake in the world by where the East African Rift System hosts some of water volume, spanning the entire border between Africa’s highest mountain ranges and the largest Tanzania, Burundi and the. [...] This and Príncipe, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo is due to the unequal distribution of income from – where the majority of the population works in this natural wealth. [...] earner in six countries in the region: Chad, Cam- 25 In São Tomé and Príncipe, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo, the retail and wholesale sector is a significant source of employment, eroon, the Republic of the Congo, the DRC, Equa- accounting for more than 40 per cent of all jobs (AUC/OECD, 2022a). [...] Central African countries have some of the fastest The CAR, the DRC, Congo and Burundi are also growing and youngest populations in the world, members of the International Conference on the causing severe demographic pressures and socio- Great Lakes Region (ICGLR). [...] By signing a In response, the government of the DRC and World landmark agreement with the World Bank’s Forest Bank signed an agreement on the purchase of 10 Carbon Partnership Facility in 2021, the Republic million tonnes of CO2, which the DRC authorities of the Congo became one of the first countries in aim to achieve through the implementation Mai- Africa to test REDD+ at scale, focusing on redu.