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COPENHAGEN AND GREEN GABON

For Gabon, which is part of the Congo Basin, and whose forests constitute the second largest ecological lung of the planet, commitment to combating global warming is a major policy line and an example for the world.

Gabon has in fact deliberately devoted 13% of its land surface for the benefit of the whole planet, a legacy from the late President Omar Bongo Ondimba. One that is extremely well preserved by the new President of the Republic, Ali Bongo Ondimba, who intends to make environmental Gabon one of the priority aspects of his policy of emergence. He has undertaken to build a strategic plan to transform the Gabonese economy into a more competitive, higher value added economy.


Gabon will position itself as a pioneer of the green economy, on the basis of a virtuous circle marked by:

  • Sustainable forest management;
  • The full exploitation of products form the said forests, particularly biomass and non-timber products;
  • The development of geotourism drawing on the exceptional diversity of Gabon’s flora and fauna;
  • The enhancement of the potential constituted by 800 km of coastline and considerable fresh water resources;
  • More marked recourse to all the opportunities afforded by "carbon funding".

New measures to this end were taken recently by the Gabonese Cabinet, such as the prohibition of flaring for the oil companies starting from 2010 and the drafting of a climate plan for Gabon which is currently underway.

Legabon.org, 17 December 2009





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